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Re: Combining PDFs

Subject: Re: Combining PDFs
From: Lou Quillio <public -at- quillio -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 13:43:39 -0400


John Posada wrote:

I passed on to my boss a link someone posted from the Adobe site and
a link to a $27.00 tool someone else sent (thanks, guys). The rest is
up to him.

I'm obliged to point out that this can be done for free. I use PDFTK on Linux, and there are Win and Mac versions.

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

I suspect that PDFTK simply scripts GSview, which can do all the merging and bursting stuff plus lots more. Further, I think that's what most of the commercial solutions are doing as well. You're mostly buying a GUI, saving you the horror of

c:\pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf cat output 123.pdf

When AdobeMedia moves the <cough> open-standard </cough> PDF goalposts again, the commercial providers will be happy to harvest some more dollars from you. The PDFTK boys will probably have a free update the next day.

I know, I know. It's un-American not to pay.

Then again, if the commercial tools are based on GNU-licensed libraries (as I suspect), isn't it a little galling to be charged good money for ... packaging?

I know, I know. Paying for packaging is as American as it gets.

LQ

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