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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:18:13 -0400<br>> From: John@wexfordpress.com<br>> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> Subject: [scribus] merging pdf files.<br>> <br>> I have roughly 200 pdf files that I need to merge<br>> into one file. They constitute the pages of a<br>> book. Some are the product of Scribus and some<br>> are not. Eventually all will be. All are the same<br>> page size. I have tried pdftk, a Ghostscript<br>> command and so on. Nothing seems to work even on<br>> small subsets. What do you folks use?<br>> <br>> My environment is Slackware linux 14.1<br>> <br>> -- <br>> John Culleton<br>> Wexford Press<br>> Book layout, typesetting and Indexing<br>> Free list of books for self-publishers:<br>> http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have used both ghostscript and poppler pdfunite to combine small numbers of PDFs.</div><div><br></div><div>With ghostscript, the command would be</div><div><br></div><div>gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=new.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f *.pdf</div><div><br></div><div>It is important to have a recent version of gs like 9.16. <a href="http://www.ghostscript.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.ghostscript.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Depending on the files and the version of gs, -dUseFastColor or -dNOGC might make it run faster.</div><div><br></div><div>If it does not work, you can file a bug report at <a href="http://bugs.ghostscript.com/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://bugs.ghostscript.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>With poppler pdfunite, the command would be</div><div><br></div><div>pdfunite *.pdf new.pdf</div><div><br></div><div>The current release is poppler 0.34.0 <a href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://poppler.freedesktop.org/</a></div><div><br></div><div>If pdfunite does not work, you can file a bug report at <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://bugs.freedesktop.org</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>William Bader, Director of Research and Development at SCS, http://www.newspapersystems.com</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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