There is a nice command line application for doing page operations on PDFs including merging.
http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ on ubuntu sudo apt-get install pdftk If you scroll down in the man page it has a lot of good examples Join in1.pdf and in2.pdf into a new PDF, out1.pdf pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf or (using handles): pdftk A=in1.pdf B=in2.pdf cat A B output out1.pdf or (using wildcards): pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf Joel On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:51 AM, chm <[email protected]> wrote: > On 1/27/2012 3:44 AM, Matthew Kenworthy wrote: >>> >>> I think getting the book just the way we want >>> it will take more time than we want to wait for >>> the PDL-2.4.10 release. I propose that we >>> focus only on the content between now and the >>> release of PDL-2.4.10 and release a draft PDF >>> version of the book at that time. >> >> >> Absolutely agreed - index and TOC are things that can be done after >> the 2.4.10 release, but I think that almost all of the material is >> there for a draft version. >> >> It would be good to have the graphics_3d text in a final form and then >> I'd say we stop for content right there and then focus on two things: > > > To make the book comprehensible, we could > definitely use a few things: > > (1) chapters begin on a new page > (2) chapters start with Chapter ### stuff > (3) chapters have a running header with chapter title > > As is, when I start reading the book, I > hit a weird transition and I lose > comprehension---we would like to avoid > that for new PDL readers. > > This is where creating per-chapter PDFs > for this go-around and then we could > paste them together with acrobat or > something for the release. > > Other ideas welcome. > > --Chris > > >> (i) figures and proofreading >> >> (ii) getting the relative links correct. >> >> A PDF version of this is definitely possible for next week! >> >> Matt > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
