Andre Van Ryckeghem wrote:
Hi all,
I have problems when i concatenate dvi or ps files.
First i used 'dviconcat.exe', that was satisfying, except in rare cases
some fonts went wrong when using ie. 'pstricks' in tex.
Then i installed a 64bit Windows7 and dviconcat did not run anymore (for
now it is the only program that fails in 64bit windows 7, it does run in
a 32bit windows7).
Then i made a pdf of all parts and combined them with acrobat (by means
if inserting pdf files in an other pdf). This was ok but tedious.
Then i used ghostscript which is able to concatenate ps and pdf files, ie:
gswin32c -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -r600 -sOutputFile=out.pdf
in1.ps in2.ps
It makes a pdf file from 2 ps files. But now some non postscript fonts
are with errors, ie:
D"\ppff poco \f" becomes '~o~o f' after concatenating (the files apart
are ok).
I also tried to make a list of tex sources, made from pmx, ie:
\input in1.tex
\input in2.tex
but that only works when the files are not to different.
My question is:
Is there someone who uses a better method?
Some time ago someone pointed me to an excellent open source utility,
pdftk (http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/) for processing pdf files. Since
then I've been using it as my favorite utility for preparing incoming
WIMA scores for publishing. It's much more flexible (in that respect)
than Ghostscript
Pdftk is basically a command line utility with ready-to-install binaries
for Linux, Windows and Mac OS. For Windows there is a third part
graphical user interface, Pdttk Builder (http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/)
--
Christian Mondrup, Archive Editor
WIMA: Werner Icking Music Archive
http://icking-music-archive.org/
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