At Tue, 21 May 2002 16:54:39 +1000, Susanto Hartono wrote: > 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.
no, you don't need to convert to latex first (even if that were possible..) > > where input_file contains lines like: > > file1.pdf file2.pdf 16 > > anotherfile.pdf yafile.pdf 7 > > (etc) that last column in input_file is the page number (in A.pdf) after which to insert the second pdf. if you want to work that out automatically, then you need something a program can work with. is looking up the PDF bookmarks going to work robustly enough? or do we need to convert it to text and grep for "Appendix A" ;) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
