joining multiple PDFs into one

[Peter King]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:53:02PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:

> How to do this?
> 
> I tried cat file1 file2 file2 > file, but that didn't work, I only got
> the last page.
> 
> Solutions I find on Google all either refer to Acrobat or some other
> Windows software. One I found with Openoffice referred to inserting
> the PDF's into an ODT file then exporting, my Libreoffice doesn't have
> the ability to insert PDF.
> 
> Any ideas?

On the *NIX command line, there is a suite of tools pdftk (PDF ToolKit)
that can do all that and more -- split files apart into pages, recombine
them in different orders, join different files, and so on. It works well
and reliably.

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