Re: Lots of pdf files
[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 mind paying a small amount of money for decent software. Whether it's ethical, given that presumably the thing is GPL because it inherits GPL code from other developers, I don't know. Certainly the GPL itself has no objection to charging for binaries provided you ship the source as well. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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 whether you could charge for mass-market GPL software simply because your ordinary punter doesn't know what the GPL is, and doesn't mind paying a small amount of money for decent software. Whether it's ethical, given that presumably the thing is GPL because it inherits GPL code from other developers, I don't know. Certainly the GPL itself has no objection to charging for binaries provided you ship the source as well. Sure it's ethical. I suspect most GPL developers would love to see it work. Of course, you might have to worry about them pre-empting you. ;-) The problem is that competition will tend to drive the price to the marginal cost of distribution. By tacking on a value-added feature (printed documentation or tech support), you are improving the production quality of the copy you are selling, which means you can (sustainably) charge a bit more. Still hard to make money at it, though. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
RE: Lots of pdf files
[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 on Linux. TJG This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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 and slaps me around for a few minutes (which, I guess, is fair). Are your sure it is the number (and not the sum of the sizes) of the jobs your admin is worrying about? What about #!/bin/sh for i in *.pdf; do lpr $i sleep 10 done (maybe adding something that waits until the queue is empty instead of sleep)? Ralf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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 slaps me around for a few minutes (which, I guess, is fair). There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. I could, for example, merge all of the files for a particular provider into one pdf for that provider and then print it (or, better yet...encrypt it and ship it!), but I do not see a way. A quick Google search turns up lots of program which claim to merge PDFs files. e.g. http://www.verypdf.com/pdfpg/index.html (for a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for). Or perhaps PDCAT, http://www.pdf-tools.com/asp/products.asp?name=CLE for $150, or $250 if you want to be able to encrypt the output and ship it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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 of Java applications for PDF manipulation... N. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Lots of pdf files
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 for a few minutes (which, I guess, is fair). There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. I could, for example, merge all of the files for a particular provider into one pdf for that provider and then print it (or, better yet...encrypt it and ship it!), but I do not see a way. Any suggestions? As it stands now, I'm printing sending 200 files, waiting until the queue is clear, then another 200, and so forth. Eventually we will be paperless (if for no other reason this seems insane to me), but what can I do in the meantime? Thanks for your help! --greg -- Greg Lindstrom 501 975.4859 (office) Senior Programmer501 219-4455 (fax) NovaSys Health [EMAIL PROTECTED] Little Rock, Arkansas We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. W.W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Lots of pdf files
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
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 examples: pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
