Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
Hello, everybody on Gentoo. On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 13:31:36 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. Thanks to everybody who responded with a suggestion. In the end, I used pdfunite, simply because it was there. I don't have (and don't want) Java on my system, so that ruled out pdftk. Gerrit, you were quite right about sane producing ludicrously large PDF files. I should have cut my file down before emailing it off, but laziness got the better of me. :-( gentoo-user is a tremendous group! > Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On 09-Jul-20 19:32, Jack wrote: > On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote: >> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me >> > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into >> > a single document. >> > >> > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this >> > with. >> >> Sorry for stealing this topic, but does any of mentioned packages >> support "overlapping" one pdf-page over the other? Not sure if >> I'm using the right word, but what I mean is "joining" two pdf >> pages of the same size to single page, with content of both those >> original pages written over each other to single output page. >> >> I have been using "stamp" option of pdftk for this, but it crashes >> sometimes... > I haven't done it, but would gimp work? It might be overkill, but > something about layers sounds appropriate. > It might work, but I'm doing it sometimes on large batches of files, so I'd prefer scripted solution. From my experience pdftk crashes about 4-5 times out of 100 operations. So I have to find those cases when it failed and run them again... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 13:32 -0400, Jack wrote: > I haven't done it, but would gimp work? It might be overkill, but > something about layers sounds appropriate. Gimp can in fact do this, I just tested it. You'll need to mess with transparency perhaps, but as a proof-of-concept you can "paste as new layer" with a PDF page layer from another file.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. Sorry for stealing this topic, but does any of mentioned packages support "overlapping" one pdf-page over the other? Not sure if I'm using the right word, but what I mean is "joining" two pdf pages of the same size to single page, with content of both those original pages written over each other to single output page. I have been using "stamp" option of pdftk for this, but it crashes sometimes... I haven't done it, but would gimp work? It might be overkill, but something about layers sounds appropriate.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. Sorry for stealing this topic, but does any of mentioned packages support "overlapping" one pdf-page over the other? Not sure if I'm using the right word, but what I mean is "joining" two pdf pages of the same size to single page, with content of both those original pages written over each other to single output page. I have been using "stamp" option of pdftk for this, but it crashes sometimes... Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from selected mailing-lists! Everything else is considered to be spam and therefore deleted.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:30:17 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > app-text/pdftk > > > > pdftk page-1.pdf page-2.pdf cat output both.pdf > > > > Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files. > > > > +1 for pdftk if you can stand java. I'm sure there are some GUI-based > options that you might prefer, but pdftk is great for command line > use. I'll add another vote for pdfunite, it's already installed on most systems as it's part of poppler and it's as simple as pdfunite file1 file2 ... output.pdf -- Neil Bothwick A Microsoft joke (is that a tautology?) pgpG9tKoM4Ko0.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. You already have many suggestions, but I'll mention app-text/pdfjam (and pdfjoin it provides) just for completeness. I use it like this to merge scanned documents: $ pdfjoin --rotateoversize false --outfile x.pdf y-*.pdf It's command line and only depends on virtual/latex-base so may be a nice option if you already have a latex installed. Regards, Simo
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
Ghostscript is installed by most pdf distributions, and if not merge it. Look here: gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=myoutput.pdf fil21.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf best, Tamer On 2020-07-09 17:39, Gerrit Kuehn wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:31:36 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this with. I use ImageMagick for joining pages scanned with xsane: convert page1 page2 pages.pdf Note that especially for pdf files, tools like pdftk or pdfjam will probably produce better results. However, (x)sane usually produces very large pdf files. So you may receive better end results creating separate png files with sane and then join these (using ImageMagick as shown above). cu Gerrit
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:31:36 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. I use ImageMagick for joining pages scanned with xsane: convert page1 page2 pages.pdf Note that especially for pdf files, tools like pdftk or pdfjam will probably produce better results. However, (x)sane usually produces very large pdf files. So you may receive better end results creating separate png files with sane and then join these (using ImageMagick as shown above). cu Gerrit
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
Dear Alan, I do it with ghostscript (for my cv's and employers proof of work) all the time, and even change the header. Then look here: http://milan.kupcevic.net/ghostscript-ps-pdf/ the best short documentation I found so far. best, Tamer On 2020-07-09 15:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into a single document. Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this with. Thanks! Other than that, Gentoo just keeps working for me, so I've not much to say on this list. ;-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:35 AM John Blinka wrote: > > app-text/pdftk > > pdftk page-1.pdf page-2.pdf cat output both.pdf > > Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files. > +1 for pdftk if you can stand java. I'm sure there are some GUI-based options that you might prefer, but pdftk is great for command line use. I'll go ahead and offer this script that takes as input a bunch of pdf files, and it combines them all adding blank pages as needed to make them all even. This is used to generate a combined PDF suitable for double-sided printing on a single-sided printer if I have a bunch of PDFs I want to print in batch. #!/bin/bash for file in *.pdf do #get the number of pages numberofpages=`pdftk "$file" dump_data | sed -e '/NumberOfPages/!d;s/NumberOfPages: //'` echo -n "$file" 'has' $numberofpages 'pages, ' uneven=$(($numberofpages % 2)) if [ $uneven == 1 ] then echo 'which is uneven - added 1 more' tempfile=`mktemp` pdftk A="$file" B=/usr/local/share/blank.pdf cat A B1 output "$tempfile" mv $tempfile $file else echo 'which is even' fi done pdftk *.pdf cat output out.pdf -- Rich
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
> I have no experience with either myself, but I think you can use > either pdftk, or the pdfunite command in the poppler package. +1 for poppler It includes easy-to-use tools for uniting, separating, and converting PDFs to other formats. Also worth noting, pdftk requires java, which some users may not want to install. Unless I'm mistaken, poppler is a Qt application.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 01:31:36PM +, Alan wrote in <20200709133136.GA4852@ACM>: Hello, Gentoo. I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into a single document. Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this with. I have no experience with either myself, but I think you can use either pdftk, or the pdfunite command in the poppler package.
Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. > > Thanks! > > Other than that, Gentoo just keeps working for me, so I've not much to > say on this list. ;-) > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > > app-text/pdftk pdftk page-1.pdf page-2.pdf cat output both.pdf Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files. hth - John Blinka
[gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.
Hello, Gentoo. I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into a single document. Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this with. Thanks! Other than that, Gentoo just keeps working for me, so I've not much to say on this list. ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
