Which tool for merging PDF-files?
 

Hi,

today I wanted to merge several single-page PDF-files from the scanner into one file. But I could not find a tool on my Slackware-computer. Am I missing something? How do you merge PDF-files?

I tried imagemagick, but it put the pages into small pictures on one larger page. Maybe there is an appropriate option in imagemagick which provides the expected behavior.....

I took also a look at slackbuilds.org, but I did not find an appropriate program there too.

Markus

Here you are - pdftk:
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/office/pdftk/

pdfconcat
 

What about

What about pdftk or ghostscript?

Try pdfunite

Hi,

thanks for the quick responses, I will install pdftk now.

But is it correct that a stock Slack-install comes without any of this tools?

Markus

Post #4 has already suggested gs.

Here's a snippet using gs:

cheers,

I've now installed pdftk and will try it out later.

Thanks also to mrclisdue for the commandline with gs, I did not know this.

I'll follow up here when I've some experience with the tools.

Markus

If you only need to merge docs once in a while, the GUI front-end for PDFTK is nice to use. If you have to merge PDFs on a regular basis, ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick are better for that.

pdfconcat in #3 is from xpaint which also comes with stock slackware.

Evidently TIMTOWTDI.

Well, I've tried pdftk, it works very well but the commands are not very intuitive.

For example rotating a file by 180 degree and joining several filesBut the help optionshows helpful examples which makes the tool very useful.

Markus

And there is pdfjoin as well

jlinkels

And just for fun here is a script that combines .pdf files into a single bookmarked file http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ml#post4382364