On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 17:34 +0100, AG wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf
> files together to make one large one?
>
> I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or
> possibly a command-line approach?
>
<snip>
We made it a right click action option in Konqueror. We put this in
${KDEDIR}/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus/
[Desktop Action Bind_PDF]
Exec=/data/.Common/apps/PDFHandlers/bindpdf "%F"
Icon=kpdf
Name=Bind PDF file(s)
[Desktop Entry]
Actions=Bind_PDF
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=application/pdf,application/vnd.adobe.pdf
The bindpdf scripts is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
TITLE="PDF Binder"
FILES=""
DIR="${1}"
NEWFILE=""
OFILE=""
OK=true
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --yesno "You must select your files one at a
time.\nThat is the only way I will know in which order to bind them.\nWhen you
have finished selecting files, click cancel.\nI will then ask you where to save
the bound file.\nShall I continue?"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
exit 4
fi
while true
do
NEWFILE="$(kdialog --title "Select PDF File to Bind" --getopenfilename
"${DIR}")"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
break
fi
if [ ! -f "${NEWFILE}" ];then
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --error "The \"${NEWFILE}\" file
does not exist"
continue
fi
FILES="${FILES} \"${NEWFILE}\""
DIR="${NEWFILE%/*}"
done
if [ -z "${FILES}" ];then
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --msgbox "No files were selected"
exit 5
fi
while ${OK}
do
OFILE="$(kdialog --title "Enter Bound File Name" --getsavefilename
"${DIR}")"
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
EXT="${OFILE: -4:4}"
if [ "${EXT}" != ".pdf" -a "${EXT}" != ".PDF" ];then
OFILE="${OFILE}.pdf"
fi
if [ -f "${OFILE}" ];then
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --warningyesno "The file
${OFILE} already exists.\nShall I overwrite it?"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
continue
fi
fi
OK=false
else
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --yesno "Do you really want to
cancel the bind?"
if [ $? -eq 0 ];then
exit 6
fi
fi
done
FNAME="${OFILE##*/}"
DNAME="${OFILE%/*}"
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --msgbox "PDF binding can take several minutes.\nYou
will be notified via popup when the process is complete.\nThank you." &
eval pdftk ${FILES} cat output \"${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}\"
ret=$?
if [ $ret -eq 0 ];then
mv "${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}" "${OFILE}"
ret=$?
fi
if [ $ret -ne 0 ];then
rm -f "${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}"
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --error "PDF binding of ${OFILE} failed."
exit 5
fi
kdialog --title "${TITLE}" --msgbox "PDF Binding Completed for:\n${OFILE}"
In case anyone is interested, we did the same thing for reducing PDF
file size - make it right click option on a file:
#!/bin/bash
OFILE=""
OK=true
FILES="\"$(echo "${1}" | sed 's/ \//\" \"\//g')\""
DIR="$(echo ${FILES} | sed 's/\"\([^\"]*\)\".*/\1/')"
DIR="${DIR%/*}/"
EXT=""
ret=0
while ${OK}
do
OFILE="$(kdialog --title "Enter New Reduced PDF File Name"
--getsavefilename "${DIR}")"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
exit 4
fi
EXT="${OFILE: -4:4}"
if [ "${EXT}" != ".pdf" -a "${EXT}" != ".PDF" ];then
OFILE="${OFILE}.pdf"
fi
if [ -f "${OFILE}" ];then
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --warningyesno "The file
${OFILE} already exists.\nShall I overwrite it?"
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
continue
fi
fi
OK=false
done
FNAME="${OFILE##*/}"
DNAME="${OFILE%/*}"
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --msgbox "PDF reduction can take several
minutes.\nYou will be notified via popup when the process is complete.\nThank
you." &
eval gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=\"${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}\" ${FILES}
ret=$?
if [ $ret -eq 0 ];then
mv "${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}" "${OFILE}"
ret=$?
fi
if [ $ret -ne 0 ];then
rm -f "${HOME}/tmp/${FNAME}"
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --error "PDF Reduction of ${OFILE}
failed."
exit 5
fi
kdialog --title "Reduce PDF File" --msgbox "PDF Reduction Completed
for:\n${OFILE}"
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