On 25/01/15 03:47, Joseph wrote:
>
> On 01/24/15 13:34, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Joseph <[1]syscon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I've pdf form that I print. Once the form is printed I put it back in
>> the printer tray and print information over top of it.
>> >
>> > It worked in the past but after I print it second time (over the
>> printed form) the pages look as if they came out of the washing
>> machine. They are crumpled.
>> > I think it as to do something with the static.
>> > How to I combine (overlap) two pdf files into one page.
>> Load both PDF files in Inkscape, adjust slightly if necessary so
>> everything aligns, and export the resulting file to PDF.
>> You can convert the PDF files to SVG before loading to Inkscape, if the
>> Inkscape converter is not up to your standards. You can
>> use media-gfx/pdf2svg for that.
>> What I do nowadays (if I have a PDF to fill that has no forms), is to
>> load the PDF in Inkscape, and fill it with the text tool. Then print it
>> or export it to SVG or PDF if I want to keep it.
>> Regards.
>
> What I'm looking for I think it is called "stitching" two pdf files.
>
I use something like:
use pdf2ps to covert the files to postscript
use psjoin to stich them together
use ps2pdf to get back to pdf
psjoin is a script at http://homepage3.nifty.com/tsato/tools/psjoin.html
BillK
