Merging PDF files

[William Kossack]

I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......

Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.

I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.

Any ideas?

[Howard Schreier <hs AT dc-sug DOT org>]

A shell command will not be able to concatenate PDF files any more than one
can concatenate SAS datasets. You would need Acrobat, or a workalike.

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

[Darren Mayne]

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William

You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
code should be (substitute your fully qualified file path for <path>):

X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";

Cheers
Darren

--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health
***@iahs.nsw.gov.au

[William Kossack]

cool it worked

the only kicker is if the gs executable is not in your path you need to
provide it

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

[William Kossack]

is it possible to insert an rtf file into a pdf using gostscript?

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

[William Kossack]

does this actuall add the two together or create a link

I created a pdf from 3 files but when I sent it to my boss the content
of one of the files does not seem to show up

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

[Jack Hamilton]

If you're familiar with VB/VBA or Microsoft Script, and you have Acrobat
Professional, you probably could use the program interface to merge the
files. I haven't tried it myself, but I did check that there's an
Insert File method. There might be some examples on the Adobe web
page.

I suppose I should learn the microsoft scripting language someday.





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Metrics Department, First Health
West Sacramento, California USA

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does this actuall add the two together or create a link

I created a pdf from 3 files but when I sent it to my boss the content
of one of the files does not seem to show up

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of

joining

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command

to

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X

command

Post by Darren Mayne
code should be (substitute your fully qualified file path for
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
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Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

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[Darren Mayne]

Yes, this method concatenates the files - check that all your source file
paths are correct. If you can output your RTF file to PostScript (PS) then
you can just include the PS file in the X command syntax I provided
previously. If not, there is probably a GhostScript process to write the
RTF to PS first, but you will need to look into this yourself.

Cheers
Darren

--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

Post by William Kossack
does this actuall add the two together or create a link
I created a pdf from 3 files but when I sent it to my boss the content
of one of the files does not seem to show up

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

[William Kossack]

It is very curious

I sent the pdf to two people

one can see all the included file contents

the other only sees a couple words of one of the files

Post by Darren Mayne
Yes, this method concatenates the files - check that all your source file
paths are correct. If you can output your RTF file to PostScript (PS) then
you can just include the PS file in the X command syntax I provided
previously. If not, there is probably a GhostScript process to write the
RTF to PS first, but you will need to look into this yourself.
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

Post by William Kossack
does this actuall add the two together or create a link
I created a pdf from 3 files but when I sent it to my boss the content
of one of the files does not seem to show up

Post by Darren Mayne

Post by William Kossack
I've made a bunch of progress in the past couple weeks but......
Now they tell me they want various of the pdf files merged together.
I could either rewrite a large amount of code or find a way of joining
the pdf files outside of SAS ie using X and passing a shell command to
append one pdf to another.
Any ideas?

Hi William
You could concatenate the files using GhostScript (opensource from
www.ghostscript.com) in the manner you have suggested above. The X command
X "<path>\gswin32c.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -
sOutputFile=<path>\test2.pdf <path>\file01.pdf <path>\file02.pdf";
Cheers
Darren
--------
Darren Mayne
Epidemiologist
Sydney South Coast Health

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One more PDF merging utility, for Merge PDF Tool project They have a sample that demonstrates how you can merge two PDF files using that library visit more:- https://www.softwarewiki.org/merge-pdf/