Thanks so much for the quick response, but it still didn't work. We had to make do with A4, not big deal. However, maybe I should submit this as a bug since I really think I've tried every option shown in the help. Texexec is the ONLY free Linux software I could find that could merge encrypted PDFs without any loss in quality! Here's what I did: ##### pdfinfo ##### [mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert10.pdf Title: Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F Author: mward00@THISTOWN Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 Producer: Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343 CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no) Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 101763 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 [mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert11.pdf Title: Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F Author: mward00@THISTOWN Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 Producer: Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343 CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no) Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 101763 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 ##### ACTUAL COMMAND ##### [mdw162@twain tmp]$ texexec --pdfarrange --paper=letter*letter --print=2up --result=out.pdf testcert10.pdf testcert11.pdf ### Output attached as out.log ### ##### RESILT FILE INFO ##### [mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo out.pdf Creator: TeX Producer: pdfTeX-0.14h CreationDate: Fri Jul 4 18:28:00 2003 Tagged: no Pages: 2 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts File size: 202996 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3 At this point I'm not really asking for help, but trying to maybe help point out a bug. It's texexec version 2.6, but if there is any other info you need please let me know. Oh --- and I know you're probably not the main developer/maintainer, but there wasn't one listed. So I'm going through you. :-) Thanks so much for your time and help! Marshall Ward On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:
At 23:01 01/07/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I'm trying to combine multiple PDF files. When I run
"texexec --pdfarrange *.pdf"
it works fine except for one thing: the input is in letter format and the output appears to be in A4. A little bit of the right side gets cut off.
I've tried --mode=letter and a bunch of other options but nothing seems to force texexec to output in letter.
Can you help me?
texexec --help pdfarrange
TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003
--pdfarrange arrange pdf pages --addempty add empty page after --background =string : background graphic --backspace inner margin of the page --markings add cutmarks --noduplex single sided --paper paper format --paperoffset room left at paper border --textwidth width of the original (one sided) text --topspace top/bottom margin of the page
--paper=letter*letter --print=2up
or if you run a recent context --paper=A*B being letter on doubleletter - which is actually non existent -
(there is an experimental gui for page imposition; will update/post that one soon)
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