On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Dale Erwin wrote: > On 6/27/2012 6:18 AM, Shan Zhu wrote: >> You can try to merge the 3 OOo files first, then select menu item File -> >> Export as PDF to generate one PDF file. >> To merge the 3 files, if they are .odt file (or any other format can be >> edited in Writer), you can follow the steps below: >> 1. Create a new file in Writer. >> 2. Select menu Insert->Section... . >> 3. In "Insert Section" dialog, click "Link" checkbox to make it checked, >> then the "File name" editbox will be enabled. >> 4. Click the button beside "File name" editbox, then select one file you >> want to merged in your file system, click "Insert" button. >> The first file will be inserted to current file. >> 5. Repeat step2-4 to insert other 2 files. >> Then you can use File -> Export as PDF to gernerate PDF in one file. >> >> If your files are .odp, copy all slides into one file would be okay. >> >> Hope that I did not misunderstand your requirement. > > I think you understood it correctly. The problem with merging the files is > that I seem always to lose some of the formatting, including page numbering > options, and have to then spend hours of cosmetic editing (It's 249 pages). > The only reason they are in 3 different files is to accommodate the page > numbering. One file has no page numbers, one file has lower-case roman > numerals and one has regular arabic numerals. > > The reason I have not put them all into one file and then done all the work > necessary to get the page numbers right, is that I collaborated with another > author on this work and the other author uses MS Office and some things just > don't translate properly between the two. > > I have a pdf utility program that, using a virtual printer, will create pdf > files and save them and merge them, but this program does not allow me to > embed the fonts the way OOo Writer's Export PDF does. > > There is an open-source pdf utility that will merge pdf files. It is called > PDF Architect, but unfortunately it is still under development and in it's > current state will not handle files this big. I was able to merge the two > smaller files and the embedded fonts did seem to remain intact, so this will > be a great help... some day.
You might try Apache PDFBox. It has a merger utility. http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/PDFMerger.html Regards, Dave > > -- > Dale Erwin > Lurigancho, Lima 15 PERU > > http://leather.casaerwin.org > http://neapolitan.casaerwin.org > > > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 9.0.0.909, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.20020) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
