Re: Create single PDF out of several other files
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
> Dotan Cohen escreveu:
>> I have a user who processes documents from other people. In Windows
>> she would select 20+ documents (all of the same type, usually pdf, gs,
>> or word files) and make a single PDF document out of them. She could
>> then easily take that PDF with her and print it at the job. I believe
>> that she was using Adobe Acrobat for this, but I'm not sure. How can
>> this be accomplished in Debian? We use the KDE desktop, so if there is
>> a KDE-based solution that I don't know about, I'd like to know about
>> it. Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> If the files are all PDF, then pdftk can easily join them in another
> PDF. For Postscript, they can easily be converted to PDF and then joined.
>
> I believe there was a KDE extension that allowed some pdftk operations
> in an "easy" graphical way. But I do not remember in which package it was.
For merging .pdf files, I use pdftk (as already mentioned). For
merging .eps, .ps files, I use psmerge. A sample command would look like
psmerge -ocombined.eps file1.eps file2.eps file3.eps file4.eps
hth
raju
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