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howtos:software:how_to_merge_pdf-files [2013/03/14 20:59 (UTC)] – Small corrections in use of wiki syntax and english language alienbob | howtos:software:how_to_merge_pdf-files [2013/04/02 14:29 (UTC)] (current) – Added pdfconcat, additional info for convert, altered to one source link allend | ||
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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 describes, how one can merge several PDF-documents into one. This is useful | + | This article describes how you can merge several PDF documents into a single PDF document. For example, this is useful if you have several pages from a scanner in PDF format and want to put these files into one file. There are several tools available; |
- | ===== The Tools ===== | + | ===== Default |
- | At first I will describe the tools which are already available on your Slackware computer if you have a complete installation. | + | Tools which are already available on your Slackware computer if you have a complete installation. |
- | ==== gs (GhostScript) ==== | + | ==== imagemagick |
- | With GhostScript you can merge PDF files on the commandline | + | The convert tool comes in Slackware' |
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+ | The convert tool uses the -adjoin option to achieve this. | ||
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+ | Thanks to jlinkels for the contribution. | ||
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+ | To increase the quality of the output, it is better to read the input PDF files with a higher density (in dots per inch (DPI)) and then resize the output density back to common DPI, 96 for example. I usually use an input density of 600 (after many trial and errors), and then resize with 93.75% (if you dont resize you will get a huge output file). | ||
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+ | Thanks to eXpander_ for the contribution. | ||
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+ | ==== ghostscript (gs) ==== | ||
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+ | The ghostscript package resides in Slackware' | ||
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+ | With GhostScript you can merge PDF files on the command line. | ||
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- | Thanks to mrclisdue | + | Thanks to mrclisdue for the contribution. |
- | ==== ImageMagick (convert) | + | ==== pdfconcat |
- | FIXME People say that it is also possible | + | The pdfconcat tool comes in Slackware' |
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+ | Thanks | ||
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+ | ==== pdfunite ==== | ||
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+ | The pdfunite tool comes in Slackware's poppler package from the l-series. | ||
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+ | Thanks to nivieru for the contribution. | ||
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+ | ===== Additional tools ===== | ||
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+ | Additional tools that can be easily installed. | ||
==== pdftk ==== | ==== pdftk ==== | ||
- | pdftk is available at [[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 for pointing me to pdftk. | ||
==== pdfshuffler ==== | ==== pdfshuffler ==== | ||
- | pdfshuffler is also available at [[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 for pointing me to pdfjam. | ||
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