On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:28:02PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:59:55 -0300, Facundo Aguirre wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:34:00PM +0100, AG wrote: > > >> 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? > >> > >> Thanks for any help. > > > Try this (you need the ghostscript package): > > > > gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf > > file1.pdf file2.pdf > > +1 for this. > > That's also my one-liner to get the job done :-)
IME, this sometimes causes problems. Because it's run through gs, it's (TTBOMK) converted from PDF to PS, and then back again, which can seriously bloat some PDF files. I've had some increase from a few MiB to hundreds of MiB using this method. Obviously depends upon the individual PDF file, but there must be some means by which PDF represents things much more compactly which gs expands and then doesn't have the intelligence to undo when it comes to writing the outout PDF. pdftk, OTOH, works on the PDF directly without any need for conversion (internally) into a different format and back again. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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