joining multiple PDFs into one

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Wed Nov 16 17:09:04 UTC 2011


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:54:43PM -0500, Thomas Milne wrote:
> 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.

<pedantic mode>
cat works fine.  It joins chunks of bits together.  The PDF format
doesn't work with concatenated PDFs though.  But still, cat works great
on all file types, given it doesn't care what it is, it is just bits.
</pedantic mode>

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