I ended up using the TeX approach .. the simpler ghostscript method
failed to include the images in the pdf files. Turned out to be
quite easy and much faster, and produced a far more compact resultant
pdf file (the gs version was 2.77 times larger than the tex version!).
-- Owen
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On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:59 AM, Russell Standish wrote:
> 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
>>
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