Guest Tony P. Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Hello, I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to find an application which would string these files together. I think there was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember the command. -- Thanks, Tony For replies, please correct my email address.
Guest Bruno Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Re: Saving Files "Tony P." wrote: > I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files > together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to > find an application which would string these files together. I think there > was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember > the command. There's no DOS command to concatenate pdf files. "copy/b file1.pdf+file2.pdf concatenated.pdf" doesn't work (concatenated.pdf is invalid). You may have used a command-line program not supplied with the OS. "How to concatenate PDFs without pain": http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php
Guest Bill in Co. Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Re: Saving Files I don't think you can do that successfully for PDF files. (For text or binary files, sure, but if you concatenate PDF files, I doubt if any PDF reader will be able to open it). Tony P. wrote: > Hello, > > I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files > together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to > find an application which would string these files together. I think there > was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember > the > command. > > -- > Thanks, > Tony > For replies, please correct my email address.
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Re: Saving Files On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:40:03 -0400, "Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files > together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to > find an application which would string these files together. I think there > was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember the > command. Concatenating files in DOS would give you a useful result *if* the files were text files. Doing that with pdf files wouldn't work. Perhaps you could do this with the full Adobe Acrobat (not Adobe Reader); I'm not sure. If not, the only other suggestion I have is to convert the files to a word-processing format (WordPerfect and other third-party programs have that capability), concatenate them in the word processor, then create a new pdf file from the result. But my experience with using WordPerfect to read pdf files and convert them to WordPerfect format has been less than outstanding. It works OK with simple pdf files, but makes a mess with more complicated ones. I have no experience with other such programs and can't comment on them. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest db.·.. > Posted July 16, 2008 Posted July 16, 2008 Re: Saving Files what it entails is simply inserting the pdf files into one main one. it would then be something like a single/main pdf with each of the pdf's that were inserted into it and becoming like chapters in a book. the feature is provided by the full install of adobe acrobat but not sure if the free reader provides the method of inserting/merging pdf files into one. perhaps, the freeware convertors for pdf like primo pdf or others may provide a similar feature. -- db·´¯`·...¸><)))º> "Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:OhINZK25IHA.4448@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Hello, > > I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files > together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to find > an application which would string these files together. I think there was a > way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember the > command. > > -- > Thanks, > Tony > For replies, please correct my email address. >
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