Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-22 Thread Richie Hindle
[Duncan] a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for Tech support [...] free forever for registered users. But I've often wondered whether you could charge for mass-market GPL software simply because your ordinary punter doesn't know what the GPL is, and doesn't

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-22 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 22 July 2005 03:43 am, Richie Hindle wrote: a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for Tech support [...] free forever for registered users. Hmm. Though that raises the old spectre of charging a fixed price for a loss center. But I've often wondered

RE: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Tim Golden
[Greg Lindstrom] | There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's | into one. I'm currently using ghostscript (on Win32) to merge multiple postscript files into one PDF (by specifying multiple inputs to the gswin32c command). I imagine it can do the same for multiple PDF inputs

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Ralf Muschall
Greg Lindstrom wrote: Hello- I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Duncan Booth
Greg Lindstrom wrote: I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down and

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread nick
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program or set of programs. Google for multivalent tools - a collection

Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello- I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down and slaps me around

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Wojciech Mula
Greg Lindstrom wrote: There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. Program pdftk can merge pdf's, but I have never tried it. You may also use pdflatex --- there is a package called pdfpages provides powerful command \includepdf. w. --

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program or set of programs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Bruce Stephens
Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program or set of programs. The pdftk manpage gives this as one of its