joining multiple PDFs into one

[Russell Reiter]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Someone else had posted that: cat file1.pdf > out.pdf cat file2.pdf
>>>>out.pdf cat file3.pdf>>out.pdf worked and they were able to see all
>> three PDF pages. Before anyone jumps on this I know this is not the
>> same as the following.
>>
>> cat file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf>out.pdf did not work, even though
>> the man page says it should. I see only two possibilities, your
>> environment changed the way cat works or your pdf parser couldn't do
>> what the parser of the person who had success viewing the document
>> could do, and that is deal with the multiple headers and eof
>> characters in the resulting single document.
>
> The third possibility is that you are just wrong.

Wrong about what exactly?
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