[SOLVED] Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

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dcihon

[SOLVED] Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by dcihon »

Looking to use a GUI Package to combine PDF files together into one PDF file.
PDF Shuffler looks good but it is not in the repositories.
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import romeo backport
deb-src http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import romeo backport #Added by software-properties
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-debian/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-d ... t/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://mirror.metrocast.net/linuxmint-d ... multimedia testing main non-free
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Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by xenopeek »

If it is just for combining whole files, I'd just use pdftk? Yes, it is a command line tool but it couldn't be much easier to use. See some examples here: http://www.linuxscrew.com/2010/06/18/th ... in-ubuntu/
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Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

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danc@danc-e535:~/Documents$ sudo aptitude install pdftk
[sudo] password for danc:
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "pdftk"
Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "pdftk"
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

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Ah, sorry... You are on LMDE, so it might not be available there depending whether it was in the Debian testing repository when the Update Pack you are on was snapshotted. You could download the package from Debian and install it from there: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/pdftk. But perhaps there is a better alternative :wink:
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dcihon

Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by dcihon »

When I try to install that I get a dependency error:
libc6 (>=2.14)
c_cinq

Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by c_cinq »

pdfedit, pdfmod can do the job.
dcihon

Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by dcihon »

Looks like I have to satisfy a lot of dependency issues with install PDFEdit.
Any easy way to do this?
Dyfi

Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by Dyfi »

I am using pdfchain from the repos in mint 13 - by trial and error found this was the best for me.
dcihon

Re: Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by dcihon »

That is what I was looking for. Thanks

Also I had a mirror problem that was preventing me from getting some of the files.
That is now fixed.
RayRayP

Re: [SOLVED] Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by RayRayP »

you guys seem to overcomplicate it a little bit^^ you could just use a site like http://combinepdf.cc/
hope this helps :)
cripes

Re: [SOLVED] Looking for an easy way to combine PDF Files

Post by cripes »

# combining multiple pdf files (using ghostscript, pdftk, or IM convert)

# gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combinedpdf.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf
# or
# gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=all-in-one.pdf -dBATCH *.pdf
# or
# use pdftk (pdf toolkit)
# pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf cat output out.pdf
# or
# using the convert function from ImageMagick:
# convert file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf out.pdf
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