Re: texexec ignores file order

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Ben Barrowes <bbarrowes@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> This bug has just resurfaced. It was working, for a while, but is now back.
>
> I a, on a fully updated mandriva 2009 system using texlive.
>
> Thanks,
> bb
>
> Just for curiosity:
can you try with these filenames :
yujo_insurance000.pdf
yujo_insurance001.pdf
yujo_insurance002.pdf
yujo_insurance003.pdf
:
:
yujo_insurance012.pdf
and so on ?




>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Ben Barrowes <bbarrowes@yahoo.com>
> > To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
> > Sent: Monday, December 8, 2008 4:41:10 PM
> > Subject: texexec ignores file order
> >
> > exexec --pdfarrange --result=yujo_insurance.pdf yujo_insurance1.pdf
> > yujo_insurance2.pdf yujo_insurance3.pdf yujo_insurance4.pdf
> yujo_insurance5.pdf
> > yujo_insurance6.pdf yujo_insurance7.pdf yujo_insurance8.pdf
> yujo_insurance9.pdf
> > yujo_insurance10.pdf yujo_insurance11.pdf yujo_insurance12.pdf
> >
> >
> > After upgrading recently, I found that texexec no longer preserves the
> order of
> > files passed to it. When I concatenate files with texexec, I often have
> more
> > than 10 files I want to pass to texexec names filename1.pdf,
> filename2.pdf, ...
> > filename12.pdf, etc. In the past, the following has worked to concatenate
> these
> > in the correct order:
> >
> > texexec --pdfarrange --result=filename.pdf `ls -a -v filename*.pdf`
> >
> > Now, even if I pass filename10.pdf after filename2.pdf on the command
> line,
> > texexec ingores this and puts filename10.pdf before filename2.pdf in the
> > resulting concatenated file.
> >
> > Is there a fix for this, or is there a better way to concatenate pdf
> files?
> >
> > bb
>
>
>
>
>
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