Merging PDF documents

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Merging PDF documents

Postby forhire » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:12 pm

I had the need to merge 40+ pages of a catalog today... my outdated version of Acrobat lacked the ability. Being budget minded I went looking for an open source something or rather to do it. I found this:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

PDF Tool Kit

From the web site:
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer of your desktop and use it to:

* Merge PDF Documents
* Split PDF Pages into a New Document
* Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
* Encrypt Output as Desired
* Fill PDF Forms with FDF Data and/or Flatten Forms
* Apply a Background Watermark
* Report on PDF Metrics such as Metadata, Bookmarks, and Page Labels
* Update PDF Metadata
* Attach Files to PDF Pages or the PDF Document
* Unpack PDF Attachments
* Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
* Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
* Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)

Pdftk allows you to manipulate PDF easily and freely. It does not require Acrobat, and it runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Solaris.

Pdftk is free software (GPL).

Basically I unzipped it. Read the instructions and converted it... in about 5 minutes. Slick!
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