[magick-users] Merge pdf documents

[Michael Geary]

I never thought I would be able to answer one of your guys'  questions. 
The following works much better for me in ghostscript (watch for wraps, 
this is all one line):

%gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=mergedPDF.pdf 
file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

this is much, much faster than the script you thoughtfully put 
together, Jeff.

However, for you wizards out there, I do have a PDF document that I am 
concatenating in this fashion. It has a gradient on it, and GS is doing 
something to the gradient to much up its display in Acrobat. I don't 
know enough about the innards of PDFs to be able to tell what is 
happening. Has anyone seen this? Can you recommend a good GS list where 
I could post this?

Thanks,

michael geary

On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 12:30 PM, Jeff Spirko wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:05:54PM -0400, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
>> At 05:26 PM 7/28/2003 +0300, Murad_Tamimi at sgs.com wrote:
>>> Can ImageMagick merge two pdf documents into one output pdf document?
>>         Yes, it can - BUT you will end up with rasterized PDF's.
>
> You can get ghostscript to do it with some trickery.  I have
> attached a bash script which I threw together to do the work.
>
> -- 
> Jeff Spirko   spirko at lehigh.edu   spirko at yahoo.com   WD3V   |=>
>
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