[OS X TeX] Concatenate PDF files?

[Frank Ernst]

Warren,

The correct command is

texexec --pdfarrange --result all.pdf  file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

(I corrected this in a message immediately after the one you included)

Frank

> From: Warren Nagourney <warren at dirac.phys.washington.edu>
> Reply-To: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 11:47:46 -0700
> To: TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>, Frank Ernst
> <fxe5 at po.cwru.edu>
> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Concatenate PDF files?
> 
> 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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