Which method did you use? Feeding the stuff through pdftex sounds like the sledgehammer approach.
I have done this successfully for a more limited application - merging pages from a scanner (and earlier from "efax", fax machine software). In this case, the raw material was a bunch of ps files, and I quickly found psmerge didn't work. I simply wrote a perl script to schlop the PS structuring conventions in, breaking each document into a prologue, and the page descriptions. Then concatenate the prologue with the data for each page, adding appropriate %%Page separator. This works, because the prologue is identical for all pages (generated by the same postscript driver). However, it is definitely not portable. I had to reimplement the version I did for the fax machine for the scanner, but its not hard - only 34 lines of Perl. Cheers On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 01:39:12PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote: > Off Topic but interesting: How to concatenate pdf files: > http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php > I used this to take 10 book chapters in pdf into a single "book". I > did this mainly to make it far more searchable. > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore 505-988-3787 http://backspaces.net > Redfish Group: 505-995-0206 http://redfish.com http://friam.org/ > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org -- *PS: A number of people ask me about the attachment to my email, which is of type "application/pgp-signature". Don't worry, it is not a virus. It is an electronic signature, that may be used to verify this email came from me if you have PGP or GPG installed. Otherwise, you may safely ignore this attachment. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://parallel.hpc.unsw.edu.au/rks International prefix +612, Interstate prefix 02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
