[scribus] merging pdf files.

[John Culleton]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:01:02 -0400
William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:18:13 -0400
> > From: John at wexfordpress.com
> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> > Subject: [scribus] merging pdf files.
> > 
> > I have roughly 200 pdf files that I need to
> > merge into one file. They constitute the
> > pages of a book. Some are the product of
> > Scribus and some are not. Eventually all will
> > be. All are the same page size. I have tried
> > pdftk, a Ghostscript command and so on.
> > Nothing seems to work even on small subsets.
> > What do you folks use?
> > 
> > My environment is Slackware linux 14.1
> > 
> > -- 
> > John Culleton
> > Wexford Press
> > Book layout, typesetting and Indexing
> > Free list of books for self-publishers:
> > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
> 
> 
> I have used both ghostscript and poppler
> pdfunite to combine small numbers of PDFs. With
> ghostscript, the command would be gs -q
> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
> -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=new.pdf
> -c .setpdfwrite -f *.pdf It is important to
> have a recent version of gs like 9.16.
> http://www.ghostscript.com/ Depending on the
> files and the version of gs, -dUseFastColor or
> -dNOGC might make it run faster. If it does not
> work, you can file a bug report at
> http://bugs.ghostscript.com/ With poppler
> pdfunite, the command would be pdfunite *.pdf
> new.pdf The current release is poppler 0.34.0
> http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ If pdfunite
> does not work, you can file a bug report at
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org Regards, William
> Bader, Director of Research and Development at
> SCS, http://www.newspapersystems.com
> 
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Irony of ironies. The above script blew up. So I
moved the very first file, just created today
using scribus  1.5.1, out of contention. Then the
script you gave me worked like a champ. I'll try
recreating that first record using 1.5.0.

Stay tuned. And thanks to all who responded.

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
Book layout, typesetting and Indexing
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
Book layout, typesetting and Indexing
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html