Saving Files

[Guest Tony P.]

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.

 

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Thanks,

Tony

For replies, please correct my email address.

[Guest Bruno]

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.]

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]

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

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[Guest db.·.. >]

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.

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"Tony P." <noone@cork.roadrunner.com> wrote in message

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> 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.

>