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====== How to merge PDF-files ====== | ====== How to merge PDF-files ====== | ||
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===== Introduction ===== | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
- | PDF (Portable-Document-Format) is a file format invented by Adobe. PDF is useful to present documents independent of hardware, operating system and application software. Each PDF-file has a fixed layout, including page-size, fonts, graphics and other information. It is also possible to encrypt a PDF file for security, or create a digital signature for authentication. | + | |
+ | PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format invented by Adobe. PDF is useful to present documents independent of hardware, operating system and application software. Each PDF file has a fixed layout, including page size, fonts, graphics and other information. It is also possible to encrypt a PDF file for security, or create a digital signature for authentication. | ||
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- | PDF-documents are created from traditional text-documents via a printer-driver, or as with LaTeX created directly from a source-code. One important consequence is, that one cannot convert a PDF-document " | + | PDF documents are created from traditional text documents via a printer driver, or as with LaTeX, created directly from source-code. One important consequence is that one cannot convert a PDF-document " |
- | This Article | + | This article |
- | ===== The Tools ===== | + | ===== Default |
- | At first I will describe the tools which are already available on your Slackware-computer if you have a complete installation. | + | |
- | ==== gs (Ghostscript) ==== | + | Tools which are already available on your Slackware computer if you have a complete installation. |
- | With Ghostscript | + | |
+ | ==== ghostscript | ||
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+ | The ghostscript package resides in Slackware' | ||
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+ | With GhostScript | ||
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- | Thanks to mrclisdue from linuxquestions.org for the contribution. | + | Thanks to mrclisdue from [[http:// |
- | ==== ImageMagick | + | ==== imagemagick |
- | People say that it is also possible, to merge PDF-documents with convert, but I haven't yet found out how this works. | + | |
+ | The convert | ||
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+ | The convert tool uses the -adjoin option to achieve | ||
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+ | Thanks to jlinkels at [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==== pdfunite ==== | ||
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+ | The pdfunite tool comes in Slackware' | ||
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+ | Thanks to nivieru at [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== Additional tools ===== | ||
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+ | Additional tools that can be easily installed. | ||
==== pdftk ==== | ==== pdftk ==== | ||
- | pdftk is available at [url=http:// | + | |
+ | pdftk is available at [[http:// | ||
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- | pdftk can do more things than joining PDF-files, for example rotating a document by 180 degrees is done this way: | + | 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 [url=http:// | + | |
+ | pdfshuffler is also available at [[http:// | ||
==== pdfjam ==== | ==== pdfjam ==== | ||
- | pdfjam is a LaTeX-package which is unfortunately **not** included in tetex. But those of us who have instead texlive | + | |
+ | pdfjam is a LaTeX-package which is unfortunately **not** included in tetex. But those of us who have installed | ||
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+ | Thanks to joghi at [[http:// | ||
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