Bruce,
You can always write a text script file to be run by bash and execute
it thru shell, then it would execute all your concatenations in one
pass and free you from the tedious 1024 limit. Maybe depending on
license issues and dependencies, you can extract join.py from that
bundle and bundle it with your application, but before doing so, you
need to check its license so that it is not a crime and also check to
see if the join.py has any dependencies or hard coded path
information. This would work on all MacOS X with python installed
(which is all mac os x) but on windows, I think you'd need some other
solution.
Andre
On Oct 21, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Bruce A. Pokras wrote:
Hello group,
A couple of times I and others have asked about a way to combine
PDF files using a RunRev script. I don't recall ever seeing an
answer, so I would like to share the solution that I found.
There is an Automator action under OS X that combines PDFs. Someone
on an Automator mailing list looked into that action and found that
it was run by a fairly simple Python script. Since Python scripts
can be run from the Shell, it was fairly straight forward to adopt
that to RunRev. Here is the actual commnad:
get shell("python '/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF
Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py' -o" && outputFile &&
inputFiles
outputFile is the full path to the file you are creating that
contains all the PDF pages. It must be surrounded by single quotes.
E..g., '/Bruce/Documents/Patents/5000000.pdf'
inputFiles is a list of full paths to the files you are combining
with each full path surrounded by single quotes and each separated
from the other by a space. E.g., '/Bruce/Documents/Patents/
5000000/5000000-001.pdf' '/Bruce/Documents/Patents/
5000000/5000000-002.pdf' '/Bruce/Documents/Patents/
5000000/5000000-003.pdf' '/Bruce/Documents/Patents/
5000000/5000000-004.pdf'
The one "gotcha" is that a shell command cannot have more than 1024
characters. So if you want to combine a lot of pages, you will need
to incrementally add files to the outputFile. This means naming
outputFile as one of the inputFiles for the second through last
loops. You could add one page at a time to the outputFile or as
many as possible (per my above example), but I have found that
adding one page at a time to be much slower than adding as many as
possible through each iteration.
Does anyone know in which version of OS X the "Combine PDF pages"
Automator action was introduced?
Theoretically, the free pdftk PDF tool would allow RunRev Windows
apps to do this, also. I will be trying that out once my OS X app
is completed.
Regards,
Bruce Pokras
Blazing Dawn Software
www.blazingdawn.com
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