Hi-

I am just finishing a quote to perform a job for a local government office. I exported a PDF of the price breakdown of the quote from SQL-Ledger, and I also have a cover letter that I made in OpenOffice and exported to PDF. How can i join the two PDF files into one PDF file with separate pages included??

Thanks,
-myk robinson

Not easily.

For most programs which generate PDF, the process is one-way. Therefore you need to concatenate your original documents in their original form, and generate your PDF again. I don't know what format the output of SQL ledger is - if it generate PDF, presumably it can also generate text or HTML or something else which can be included in your OpenOffice document?

If someone knows of a Free Software PDF editor which can do this, I'd like to know too!

I'm sorry, but there are many utilities that can edit or merge PDF's (pdfjoin from pdfjam comes to mind). Lot's of the command line utilities are short and sweet (and specialized like pdfjoin). Scribus has very good import/export facilities, and it can be used as a do-it-all utility (though sometimes, as in this case, it is overkill). If all else fails, you can always convert to postscript, then convert back (given this method probably needs tweaking of appropriate options and such, and it will not usually preserve some of the advanced features of PDF such as forms).

Fantastic - I didn't know about pdfjam. Thanks!

OP did not ask for a free program. Adobe Acrobat does what is requested, but is not free. Since they have ported Acrobat Reader to Linux, one hopes that they might do the same with the full version.
(But probably NOT if the free versions work well)

i found an app called pdftk that does it via commandline. It should be available in the repositories of most distributions.

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

thanks for all other recommendations as well