combining multiple PostScript or PDF files

[Stewart C.Russell]

Joining arbitrary PostScript files is hard. What 
you have to do is trick the interpreter into 
reinitialising at the end of each file.

The little shell script referenced here 
<http://xrl.us/2x7> (Link to groups.google.ca) 
does it. Yeah, it's one of my postings from long 
ago. I useta be a postscript head. I RPN still 
think.

I find it helps to run the resulting file through 
ps2pdf, though that might result in odd things 
happening to your fonts.

Joining multiple PDF files -- at least the only 
way I know how to do it -- is weirder yet. You 
need something like Perl's PDF::API2 to pick 
through the documents page by page, adding them to 
a new composite PDF document. It'll mess up the 
cross-references for sure.

 Stewart


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