Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
document?

I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and memory
usage is of importance.

# Johannes

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Johannes Beyer wrote:

> Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
> document?
>
> I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and memory
> usage is of importance.

If you have a recent TeX distribution, you can do this with the provided
pdf(e)tex.  You will probably want to construct custom tex files for your
purpose, since you don't need the overhead of a big macro package, but
there are two interfaces you can explore, a LaTeX macro package
(pdfpages), and the texexec.pl script from ConTeXt (both are included in
the major distributions).  You may also want to compile pdftex yourself as
many distributions use statically linked graphics libraries to support
including png, tiff, jpeg, etc. images.

"texdoc pdfpages" gives the following:

"This package makes it easy to include pages from external PDF documents
in LaTeX documents (using pdflatex). It is possible to arrange two or four
logical pages from a PDF document on each physical sheet of paper from
LaTeX. It is similar to \includegraphics in some respects. Landscape
format is supported. Pages are centered automatically. The package
provides hypertext operations like hyperlinks and article threads. You can
select pages to be included with, e.g., pages={3,5-11,20,38}. "

--
George N. White III  <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
  Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada

Hello

you may try

http://thierry.schmit.free.fr/dev/mbtPdfAsm/enMbtPdfAsm2.html

I test it up to manipulating 30Mo pdf Files
and ear about a person that produces a 400Mo files with it.

Which kind of pdf file do you want to combine ?
(number of pages, content...)

sincerely

Thierry

"Johannes Beyer" <foobar@barfoo.pap> a �crit dans le message de
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> Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
> document?
>
> I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and
memory
> usage is of importance.
>
> # Johannes
>
>
>

Johannes Beyer wrote:
> Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
> document?
> 
> I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and memory
> usage is of importance.
> 
> # Johannes
> 

My pdftk combines PDF documents, but its memory usage is inefficient 
when combining many documents.  In particular, it allocates resources 
for all input documents before starting to combine them.  This doesn't 
mean a 2MB PDF will take 2MB of memory, but it does begin to add up.

It is free software (C++ and Java under GPL), so you can tinker with it 
to suit your needs.  I will be glad to help you with this.

http://www.AccessPDF.com/pdftk/

Thanks-

Sid

Hi,

You may try PDF PageMaster from pdfTron:

http://www.pdftron.com/pagemaster/index.html

PDF PageMaster is an affordable industrial strength, stand-alone tool for
splitting, merging, editing, and securing PDF documents.

PDF PageMaster is offered as an easy to use GUI (Graphical User Interface)
application, as a command-line application, and as a library component that
can be used as a building block for other client and server based
applications.


Leo



"Johannes Beyer" <foobar@barfoo.pap> wrote in message
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> Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
> document?
>
> I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and
memory
> usage is of importance.
>
> # Johannes
>
>
>

We have successfully used IText PDF package http://www.lowagie.com/iText/
for this.  They have an example program which
concatenates multiple PDFs into one.  Since you get all the source and this
example program is quite small, it is easy to make changes to it.  Good luck

-Sam

"Johannes Beyer" <foobar@barfoo.pap> wrote in message
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> Does any of you know of a tool to combine PDF documents into a single PDF
> document?
>
> I need to combine more than 10.000 documents, and therefore speed and
memory
> usage is of importance.
>
> # Johannes
>
>
>