I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this e-mail from Hans: http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2001-January/000240.html saying that "texexec" can do it in several ways! and to look on the web-site, texexec manual and the mailing list for directions. I went to the manual first and found only ONE: texexec --pdfarrange --noduplex --paper=S6 file-a file-b but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next I went to two other sources he mentioned and Googled for: "-ntg-context concatenate pdf" did not yield much beyond that, and neither did Googling http://www.pragma-ade.com/ for the words "concatenate" or "combine". So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ? Paulo Ney
On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 14:01:11 -0700 (PDT)
Paulo Ney de Souza
So does anyne know how to use "texexec" to concatenate two PDF files and preseve as much of the file as possible (links, opening format, ...) ?
--pdfcombine, --pdfcopy and --pdfselect switches are also available, but my guess is that what you want is (currently) not possible. What texexec actually does is: it creates a temporary TeX input file that starts with the \setuppaper, \setuplayout etc. implementing the options you have given on texexec's commandline. In the document body it then includes (every) page(s) of the pdf file(s) as an external image. This image is scaled and rotated etc. as needed. This process probably trashes the internal structure of the document. Greetings, Taco
Am 02.09.2004 um 23:01 schrieb Paulo Ney de Souza:
I am looking for a way to concatenate several PDF files, and found this e-mail from Hans: ... but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next
At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this. It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/
Am 03.09.2004 um 21:52 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
but that nullified all links I had in my files, and changed the opening from from FitVisible to something else (all files were FitVisible). Next At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this. It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.
I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html Perhaps it fits your needs; I didn't try it. Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/
Hi, On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this. It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.
I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html I can't recommend Multivalent (http://multivalent.sf.net) enough. OK, it needs Java 1.4, but except for that it is quite nice. It can do concatenation, compression, encryption, ...
Greetings, Alex
Alexander Klink wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:16:26PM +0200, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
At work we use the command line tool "pdcat" by pdftools.com for this. It's commercial, but the demo also does nearly everything.
I just found "PDFLab" for MacOS X, see http://fabien.iconus.ch/english/PDFLab.html
I can't recommend Multivalent (http://multivalent.sf.net) enough. OK, it needs Java 1.4, but except for that it is quite nice. It can do concatenation, compression, encryption, ...
unfortunately mv does not handle colors well (apart from being rather slow) but it certainly looks promissing. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
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