[OS X TeX] Concatenate PDF files?

[Warren Nagourney]

Actually, I am the one one whose behalf the question was originally posed 
(thanks, Chuck) and I have tried Acrobat but find it to be a very bad port 
of a difficult-to-use (in my opinion) windows program. I gave up on Acrobat 
after getting cryptic error messages about "font subsets are same" or 
something like this. I also tried texexec and found some *very* serious 
problems with it: problems which result in data loss!

I ran "texexec --result all.pdf  `ls *.pdf`" and found that the script 
didn't recognize any of the .pdf files in the directory: it would say "I 
can't find file xxxx.pdf" (leaving aside the paradox in that statement: how 
can it specify the filename and then be unable to find it!?!?).

It *was* (unfortunately) able to delete the files! After responding with ^D 
to all of the script's complaints, I found that none of my pdf files were 
left in the directory - they were all deleted! Fortunately, they were all 
generated using TeXshop, so I was able to regenerate them.

There is something horribly wrong with the texexec script and I recommend 
that no one use it.

Thanks.

Warren Nagourney

--On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 10:22 AM -0400 Frank Ernst <fxe5 at po.cwru.edu> 
wrote:

>> From: Michael Murray <mmurray at maths.adelaide.edu.au>
>> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:30:14 +0930
>> To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Concatenate PDF files?
>>
>>> Le 22/05/02 14:05, « Charles Bouldin » <charles.bouldin at nist.gov> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>>>  A friend of mine asked me about how to concatenate .pdf files into a
>>>>  single .pdf file, and I was sort of stumped. This came up in the
>>>>  context of creating a single .pdf file to put on a web page, where
>>>>  the individual .pdf files were created using TeXShop.
>>>>
>>>>  Suggestions, anyone?
>>>
>>> try pdfpages.sty
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michel Bovani
>>>
>>
>> By the way its part of the teTeX that comes with TeXShop but you will
>> need to go to CTAN and grab the manual.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> --
>
>
> To concatenate file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf etc into a single file
> all.pdf you can use the command
>
> texexec --result all.pdf  file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
>
> To concatenate all pdf files in a directory pdfdir into a single file
> all.pdf (in alphabetic order) you can use
>
> texexec --result all.pdf  `ls *.pdf`
>
> For further details try
>
> texexec --help
>
> Frank Ernst
>
>
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