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Concatenating PDF
Today I needed to combine a PDF file for a coverpage (produced from Word) with another PDF representing the body of the document (produced from LaTeX) into a single document. Turns out OS X already has a script that does this hidden deep inside Automator. The path is very long, so I’ll break it up to lead you to the file:
cd /System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action cd Contents/Resources ls -l join.py
If you look at the Python script, you’ll see some usage information at the top.
I created a link to the script in by bin directory to make using it more convenient, then just used the command:
~/bin/joinPDF.py -o 2006prop.pdf 2006cover.pdf 2006desc.pdf
That’s it. The resulting PDF is perfect. I found this recipe at Benjamin Han’s site.
Posted by windley on November 21, 2006 2:07 PM
Comment from Carl Youngblood at November 21, 2006 5:21 PM
You might also want to try pdftk, a very handy freeware tool:
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
Comment from Andi at November 25, 2006 12:21 PM
And for your convenience you might use
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/
or similar tools.
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