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krishnamahesh 12-22-2007 02:30 AM

How to combine multiple print jobs into 1 file
 
I'm a recovering Windows user and I used a program called FinePrint. It acted as a virtual printer driver and allowed me to combine jobs into a PDF file.
That allowed me to combine (say) an excel print-out with a Word printout or multiple single prints(of various kinds)into 1 PDF file.

Ideally it seems to be something like a printer-spool emptying all its jobs into one output file. Is there any program (commercial or free)for Linux that would allow me to do this?
Thanks,
Krishna

matthewg42 12-22-2007 09:19 AM

If you print all the files to .pdf first, you should be able to concatenate them into a single PDF afterwards. There's an article on pdftk here: http://www.linux.com/articles/53701

I don't know if this is really what you're looking for...?

krishnamahesh 12-22-2007 11:53 PM

Want to do it in 1step
 
matthewg42 Thanks for the reply.
I wanted to avoid the first step of printing out the files if possible.

I have a macro in OpenOffice that prints the same page over 500 times (with the information changes each time). If I do it the 2 step way, I'd have to concat 500 files. With the spool, it's just one print

Thanks.

krishnamahesh 05-02-2009 07:25 AM

SOLVED! Try PrintRuler
 
It's an amazing opensource, free alternative that does nearly everything I wanted from fineprint
http://code.google.com/p/printruler/

Thank you to all of those who helped me find it and an especially big THANK YOU to the coders who wrote it. You guys ROCK!


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