On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:12:21 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:28:02PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:59:55 -0300, Facundo Aguirre wrote:
(...) >> > 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. I don't like having installed additional software for something I use sporadically and joining PDF's is not on my day to day agenda: "gs" does the job quite well and is very powerful :-) Should I have to do this on an every day basis, I would consider another options, like PDFEdit which is more in the line of Adobe Acrobat. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.13.14.50...@gmail.com
