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- | ==== Introduction ==== | + | ===== Introduction |
- | PDF (Portable-Dokument-Format) is a filetype | + | |
- | The idea behind | + | PDF (Portable |
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- | ==== pdftk ==== | + | PDF documents are created from traditional text-documents via a printer-driver, |
- | ==== gs (Ghostscript) ==== | + | This article describes, how one can merge several PDF-documents into one. This is useful for example if you have several pages from the scanner in PDF-format and want to put this files to be in one file like the original text. There are several tools, some included in the stock Slackware install, some available via [[http:// |
+ | ===== The Tools ===== | ||
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+ | At first I will describe the tools which are already available on your Slackware computer if you have a complete installation. | ||
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+ | ==== ghostscript (gs) ==== | ||
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+ | With GhostScript you can merge PDF files on the commandline | ||
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+ | Thanks to mrclisdue from [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==== imagemagick (convert) ==== | ||
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+ | The imagemagick package comes in Slackware' | ||
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+ | convert uses the -adjoin option to achieve this. | ||
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+ | Thanks to jlinkels at [[http:// | ||
+ | ==== pdftk ==== | ||
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+ | pdftk is available at [[http:// | ||
+ | < | ||
+ | pdftk can do more things than joining PDF files, for example rotating a document by 180 degrees is done this way: | ||
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+ | Thanks to brianL and michaelk at [[http:// | ||
==== pdfshuffler ==== | ==== pdfshuffler ==== | ||
+ | pdfshuffler is also available at [[http:// | ||
+ | ==== pdfjam ==== | ||
+ | pdfjam is a LaTeX-package which is unfortunately **not** included in tetex. But those of us who have instead texlive installed have already pdfjam. It is also a commandline tool (like LaTeX). The documentation is available with the texdoc command | ||
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+ | Thanks to joghi at [[http:// | ||
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