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From: Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2020 15:44:17
Message-Id: 0d8d38f7-8b52-e8dd-4496-eceb73e1b778@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together. by Gerrit Kuehn
1 Ghostscript is installed by most pdf distributions, and if not merge it.
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3 Look here:
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5 gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=myoutput.pdf
6 fil21.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
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9 best, Tamer
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11 On 2020-07-09 17:39, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
12 > On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:31:36 +0000
13 > Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote:
14 >
15 >> Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
16 >> with.
17 > I use ImageMagick for joining pages scanned with xsane:
18 >
19 > convert page1 page2 pages.pdf
20 >
21 > Note that especially for pdf files, tools like pdftk or pdfjam will
22 > probably produce better results. However, (x)sane usually produces
23 > very large pdf files. So you may receive better end results creating
24 > separate png files with sane and then join these (using ImageMagick as
25 > shown above).
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27 >
28 > cu
29 > Gerrit
30 >