[OS X TeX] Concatenate PDF files?

[Warren Nagourney]

Thanks, Frank. This works fine, though I managed to crash the computer when 
viewing the result with Preview. Unfortunately, some of the fonts were 
missing (leading to corrupted pages and probably the source of Acrobat's 
complaints) and, when I was scrolling through the document in Preview, the 
display server crashed, which I consider a crash even though the kernel 
didn't crash. There are lots of problems with Apples pdf-viewing 
frameworks. This is not, of course, a texexec problem.

Thanks for the correction (I should have continued to read the messages 
before trying out texexec.)

-Warren Nagourney

--On Wednesday, May 22, 2002 2:59 PM -0400 Frank Ernst <fxe5 at po.cwru.edu> 
wrote:

> 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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