[OS X TeX] Can TeX help out here? Merging PDF with various page sizes and keeping it vector.

[Gerben Wierda]

As so far any tool I have found on the internet, this one too merges two vector PDFs and creates a pixel PDF. No good.

G

On 13 Jan 2012, at 19:09, Luis Javier del Pozo wrote:

> You can use an online tool for merging pdf files for free (http://www.pdfmerge.com/)
> 
> 2012/1/13 Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda at rna.nl>
> Hello community,
> 
> I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can TeX (either LaTeX or ConTeXt or plain TeX) help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted (e.g. with the pdfpages package in LaTeX).
> 
> I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. And using geometry and pdfpages is not enough, because you cannot change paper size mid-document with geometry. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.
> 
> So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy TeX trickery I could use to do this?
> 
> Summary:
> - One PDF as result
> - Each page has a different size and orientation
> - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels
> 
> Yours,
> 
> G
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