Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Greg Lindstrom
Hello- I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down and slaps me around for

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Wojciech Mula
Greg Lindstrom wrote: > There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. Program pdftk can merge pdf's, but I have never tried it. You may also use pdflatex --- there is a package called pdfpages provides powerful command \includepdf. w. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Paul Rubin
Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program or set of programs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-20 Thread Bruce Stephens
Paul Rubin writes: > Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. > > There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program > or set of programs. The pdftk manpage gives this as one

RE: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Tim Golden
[Greg Lindstrom] | There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's | into one. I'm currently using ghostscript (on Win32) to merge multiple postscript files into one PDF (by specifying multiple inputs to the gswin32c command). I imagine it can do the same for multiple PDF inputs on

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Ralf Muschall
Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello- > I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) > files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all > the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the > print server throws a fit and our system admin comes

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread Duncan Booth
Greg Lindstrom wrote: > I'm running Python 2.3 on a Linux system and have lots (about 2000) > files in pdf format to print each day. If I just wind up and fire all > the files at the printer at once (as 2000 separate print jobs), the > print server throws a fit and our system admin comes down

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-21 Thread nick
Paul Rubin wrote: > Greg Lindstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > There does not appear to be a simple way to merge many pdf's into one. > There's probably some way to do it with pstops or some related program > or set of programs. Google for "multivalent tools" - a co

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-22 Thread Richie Hindle
[Duncan] > a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for "Tech support [...] free forever for registered users." But I've often wondered whether you could charge for mass-market GPL software simply because your ordinary punter doesn't know what the GPL is, and doesn't m

Re: Lots of pdf files

2005-07-22 Thread Terry Hancock
On Friday 22 July 2005 03:43 am, Richie Hindle wrote: > > a mere $29.90, except it is GPL'd so I'm not sure what the money is for > "Tech support [...] free forever for registered users." Hmm. Though that raises the old spectre of charging a fixed price for a "loss center". > But I've often wond