Re: merging two ps files

["Q. Gong" <q.gong@tue.nl>]

Try:
  cat 1.ps 2.ps > 3.ps
  ps2pdf 3.ps
  pdf2ps 3.pdf
  gv 3.ps

Good luck,

Qian

On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, martin f krafft wrote:

> hi, i am trying to print two separate 1-page ps files so that they
> appear both at 50% side-by-side on one page.
>
>   just concatenating the files doesn't work
>     cat file1.ps file2.ps | a2ps -o- | gv -
>   only displays the first page. the "insert 'false 0 startjob pop'
>   between the files in the concatenation" variation didn't work
>   either.
>
>   psmerge from the psutils package, when invoked like so:
>     psmerge -o- file1.ps file2.ps | a2ps -o- | gv -
>   results in an empty page.
>
>   the method at http://ktmatu.com/info/merge-pdf-files/ works, but
>   it's cumbersome[1].
>
> any clues on how i can do this for a bulk operation?
>
>   [1] actually, it's interesting because it links the original files,
>   rendering it into a general purpose program almost if you could
>   somehow pass the two parameters of the to-be-linked file in with the
>   command invocation. is this possible somehow?
>
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