joining multiple PDFs into one

[Thomas Milne]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Russell Reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?

cat simply does not work with all kinds of files, and does not work
reliably with PDFs. I don't see any reason to assume that the "only
two possibilities" are as you assume.

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Thomas Milne
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