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  pdftk steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-26 09:50 +0200
    Re: pdftk Dominik George <natureshadow@debian.org> - 2019-08-26 10:10 +0200
      Re: pdftk Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> - 2019-08-26 10:20 +0200
    Re: pdftk "Victor A. Stoichita" <victor@svictor.net> - 2019-08-26 10:10 +0200
      Re: pdftk Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2019-08-26 10:40 +0200
        Re: pdftk "Victor A. Stoichita" <victor@svictor.net> - 2019-08-26 16:20 +0200
    Re: pdftk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-26 10:40 +0200
      Re: pdftk steef <debian.linux@home.nl> - 2019-08-27 00:00 +0200
    Re: pdftk "Russell L. Harris" <russell@rlharris.org> - 2019-08-26 11:10 +0200

#213278 — pdftk

hi folks!

is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is 
for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains with 'input-errors'.

steef

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#213279

Hi,

>is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a
>couple of pdf-files?

look at pdfjoin.

-nik

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#213281

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Quoting Dominik George (2019-08-26 10:09:24)
> >is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a 
> >couple of pdf-files?
> 
> look at pdfjoin.

Or (not exactly what you asked for but perhaps interesting anyway) the 
graphical tool pdfshuffler, which in my experience is by far the easiest 
to use to merge PDFs.


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Le 26 Aug 2019, steef <debian.linux@home.nl> a écrit :

> hi folks!
>
> is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to 
> merge
> a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man 
> and --help-files is
> for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it 
> complains
> with 'input-errors'.
>
> steef

What did you try?

To merge file1.pdf and file2.pdf into result.pdf:
$ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf output result.pdf

Regards,
Victor

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#213282

Victor A. Stoichita wrote:
> Le 26 Aug 2019, steef <debian.linux@home.nl> a écrit :
> 
> > hi folks!
> >
> > is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge
> > a couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is
> > for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains
> > with 'input-errors'.
> 
> What did you try?
> 
> To merge file1.pdf and file2.pdf into result.pdf:
> $ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf output result.pdf

AFAIK that should be:
$ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output result.pdf

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#213293

Le 26 Aug 2019, Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> a écrit :
> AFAIK that should be:
> $ pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output result.pdf

It also works without "cat". The OP seemed to be looking for the 
simplest possible form. 

Regards,
Victor

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#213283

On 2019-08-26, steef <debian.linux@home.nl> wrote:
> hi folks!
>
> is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a
> couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is
> for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains
> with 'input-errors'.

Join pdfs:
 pdftk foo.pdf bar.pdf cat output foobar.pdf

Split pdf into one-page files:
 pdftk foo.pdf burst
(outputs pg_0001.pdf, pg_0002.pdf and so on)

Just page 22:
 pdftk foo.pdf cat 22 output bar22.pdf

Only pages 1-22:
 pdftk foo.pdf cat 1-22 output bar1to22.pdf

> steef
>
>


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#213302

..thank you all for your comments: i got it going.

thanks again

steef




On 26-08-19 10:33, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-26, steef <debian.linux@home.nl> wrote:
>> hi folks!
>>
>> is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a
>> couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is
>> for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains
>> with 'input-errors'.
> 
> Join pdfs:
>   pdftk foo.pdf bar.pdf cat output foobar.pdf
> 
> Split pdf into one-page files:
>   pdftk foo.pdf burst
> (outputs pg_0001.pdf, pg_0002.pdf and so on)
> 
> Just page 22:
>   pdftk foo.pdf cat 22 output bar22.pdf
> 
> Only pages 1-22:
>   pdftk foo.pdf cat 1-22 output bar1to22.pdf
> 
>> steef
>>
>>
> 
> 

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#213285

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 09:41:39AM +0200, steef wrote:
>is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a 
>couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is 
>for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains 
>with 'input-errors'.

An example from the man page for pdftk gives three approaches to merge
in1.pdf and in2.pdf into the new PDF, out1.pdf:

approach #1    pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf

approach #2    pdftk A=in1.pdf B=in2.pdf cat A B output out1.pdf

approach #3    pdftk *.pdf cat output combined.pdf

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