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Moriah
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 Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2020 1:47 am Post subject: HELP - need to concatenate pdf files into one file |
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I seem to remember that many years ago, there was a tool called pdfcat, or maybe it was pscat. Anyway, it concatenated pdf (or postscript) files into a single file. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Surely this is a common utility. What is it called, and where can I find it?
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figueroa
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| Code: | $ pdfunite
pdfunite version 0.90.1
Copyright 2005-2020 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC
Usage: pdfunite [options] <PDF-sourcefile-1>..<PDF-sourcefile-n> <PDF-destfile>
-v : print copyright and version info
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
--help : print usage information
-? : print usage information
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It's part of poppler.
Or, look at all these cool binaries:
| Code: | $ ls /usr/bin/pdf*
/usr/bin/pdf2dsc* /usr/bin/pdfimages* /usr/bin/pdftocairo*
/usr/bin/pdf2ps* /usr/bin/pdfinfo* /usr/bin/pdftohtml*
/usr/bin/pdfattach* /usr/bin/pdfmom* /usr/bin/pdftoppm*
/usr/bin/pdfdetach* /usr/bin/pdfroff* /usr/bin/pdftops*
/usr/bin/pdffonts* /usr/bin/pdfseparate* /usr/bin/pdftotext*
/usr/bin/pdfgrep* /usr/bin/pdftexi2dvi* /usr/bin/pdfunite*
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That's what I do when I can't remember a command, or:
| Code: | | ls /usr/bin | grep pdf |
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Moriah
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Thanks my friend. We've been on this forum for many years now, and you've always been very helpful. 
I usually just type pdf and then hit tab for completion, but I wasn't looking for "unite"; I was looking for "cat". Apparently I was thinking of pnmcat and got confused.
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A much more powerful tool is app-text/qpdf. But it's difficult to get the command line arguments right...
Example (from the man page):
| Code: | If you wanted to take pages 1–5 from file1.pdf and pages 11–15 from file2.pdf in reverse, you would run
qpdf file1.pdf --pages file2.pdf 1-5 . 15-11 -- outfile.pdf |
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figueroa
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qpdf would be lovely to master. Syntax -- ouch. And, it's a dependency of cups-filters.
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