On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:07, Vox wrote: > On September 1993 plus 3654 days Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:15 pm, Mark wrote: > > > >> I had thought about that. but then I decided not to do it that way cause > >> I'd end up having to edit and clean up too much. So I chose the try the > >> elegant lazy method. as it turns out when I used "cat" do combine the > >> files all I got was the first page and a wee bit of the last page and that > >> was all. don't know what I did wrong. > > > > Mark, someone else mentioned that they did not think it would work because it > > was a binary format. That could be it. Otherwise the "cat" command would have > > worked. > > I've actually used cat to concatenate binary files (.mpg) > together...strict standards compliant viewers choke on them, but > mplayer plays files created this way without much of a problem. The > real problem isn't that the file is a binary, but that the reader of > the file doesn't like headers-in-the-middle-of-a-file. > > Vox
I think (but I can't swear) that the problem is file headers. The PDF has a header that gives data like length etc. So when you cat them together the first header is wrong. The second is in the middle etc. I agree that the only way is to cvt to ps then merge then convert back to pdf. James
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