This sounds great like a great idea. Problem is if say, Appendix A (in A.pdf) is stored in page 16 in one document and page 19 in another (ie. Appendix A may not necessary be in one particular page), how would I insert the content of B.pdf into page 17 and 20 respectively? Would I need to convert A.pdf to Latex first to work out where Appendix A is located? If so, would you or anyone else know how to do this by any chance?
As you can see, I am totally clueless about Latex. Thanks, --SH -----Original Message----- From: Angus Lees [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 21 May 2002 3:31 PM To: Hartono, Susanto Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: How to append a PDF file into another PDF file At Tue, 21 May 2002 13:36:08 +1000, Susanto Hartono wrote: > Is it possible to append the content of one pdf file into another without > using the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat? I am trying to insert the > content of one pdf file into a particular section of another. For example if > A has multiple headings as shown below, how do I insert the content of B > immediately after Appendix 1 - without affecting the overall content? I'd > like to script this if possible as there are quite a number of pdf files > that have to be done. > > [ File A ] > > Heading 1 > Content > Heading 2 > Content > Appendix 1 > >> Insert content from B << > Appendix 2 > Content as silly as it might sound, i tend to use pdflatex for most of my pdf manipulations: grab the "pdfpages" package from your nearest CTAN mirror: ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages.t ar.gz unpack latex pdfpages.ins if you want the documentation, do "latex pdfpages.dtx" 3 times export TEXINPUTS="/path/to/pdfpages//:$TEXINPUTS" put this in (eg) "combine.tex": \documentclass{article} % above must be first line in file \usepackage{pdfpages} \newcounter{nextpage} \setcounter{nextpage}{\insertafter} \stepcounter{nextpage} \begin{document} \includepdfmerge{\filea, -\insertafter, \fileb, -, \filea, \thenextpage-} \end{document} then do: pdflatex --interaction=batchmode \ '\def\filea{A.pdf}\def\fileb{B.pdf}\def\insertafter{16}\input combine.tex' mv combine.pdf AB.pdf to (for example) combine B.pdf into A.pdf after A.pdf's page 16. you probably want to put that last bit in a shell script loop or something: while read A B page; do pdflatex --interaction=batchmode \ "\\def\\filea{$A}\\def\\fileb{$B}\\def\\insertafter{$page}\\input combine.tex" mv combine.pdf "${A%.pdf}_${B%.pdf}.pdf" done < input_file where input_file contains lines like: file1.pdf file2.pdf 16 anotherfile.pdf yafile.pdf 7 (etc) (i'm sure someone who has actually read the TeXbook knows a much better way to specify parameters on the command line..) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
