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Re: Use of pdftk

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On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 14:31:36 -0000 (UTC), db wrote:
>
> I have a large number of pdf files I want to chain together into
> a single file. They come from Windows and the names all have spaces
> in them. I can do it by typing in, e.g.
>
> pdftk 'ab c.pdf' 'e fg.pdf' ... output z.pdf
>
> This has worked for me with a smaller set, but for this one it's
> so many that I want to do it using a script. I tried something like
> this:
>
> pdftk 'ab c.pdf' \
> 'e fg.pdf' \
> ...
> output z.pdf
>
> (the names afre all long, hence the \),
> as a script. Chmod it and try to run it, and it says it can't find
> those files. What is the difference, and how can I do it? I would
> use ls to get a list and emacs the extra stuff into it. But how
> can I get it to run?

Something like

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=output.pdf "*.pdf"

should work.
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Andreas

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Use of pdftk db <dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> - 2019-06-24 14:31 +0000
  Re: Use of pdftk Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-24 15:46 +0000
  Re: Use of pdftk Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-24 17:00 +0100
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  Re: Use of pdftk Andreas Kohlbach <ank@spamfence.net> - 2019-06-24 14:21 -0400
  Re: Use of pdftk Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-24 18:38 +0000
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