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? > > -- > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck > > "i have smoked pot. it is a stupid business, like masturbation." > -- thomas pynchon (v) > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
