Maura, On Saturday 19 February 2005 07:46, Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

I have two ".pdf" files, say f1.pdf and f2.pdf I'd like to merge them in one ".pdf" file only by appending the second file to the first one. I tried the command: # cat f1.pdf f2.pdf > Bigf.pdf but the resulting file is a mess that not even Acroread can open.

PDF files have structure that goes far beyond being a simple sequence of characters like a plain text file. You cannot combine them in this manner.

Any help/suggestion is greatly welcome. Thank you in advance.

Adobe Acrobat (at least version 5) runs well under CrossOver Office, so you could use it to edit PDFs. Acrobat isn't cheap, though CrossOver Office is modestly priced. I got my copy of Acrobat at a used bookstore, which made relatively affordable.

MEM

Randall Schulz

Thomas Long wrote:

On Saturday 19 February 2005 10:11, Jos van Kan wrote:

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Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:

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I have two ".pdf" files, say f1.pdf and f2.pdf I'd like to merge them

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Take a look at www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

I think that may help you. (Untested)

Beat me to the punch! We had a problem with .pdf attachments getting corrupted when being sent from MS Outlook clients. We downloaded pdftk (PDF ToolKit) yesterday and tested and deployed it. It works great for cleaning up (i.e., repairing) corrupt .pdf files, and I remembered reading that it did merging. Great utility!

I confirm it worked for me. I downloaded and installed the "rpm" file for SuSE 9.0. I now run SUSE 9.1 and haven't had any time to upgrade to 9.2 (which has been in the box for a couple of months). Very friendly and useful tool indeed ! MEM