in reply to Combining PDFs

I haven't used the PDF::API2 method, but will be trying it tonight.

I've had problems in the past with other PDF-merging solutions, because they basically require you to resample any embedded bitmapped graphics into a worse-quality format.

Those methods, in conceptual form, are essentially: 

pdf2ps  |  psmerge  |  ps2pdf

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If the method you show above works without dropping quality, I'm going to use it, whether it is slow or not.

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Re^2: Combining PDFs
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jun 27, 2005 at 17:25 UTC
    You can take a look at PDFmerge4unix it uses ps2pdf too, but seems to bypass the pdf2ps portion of the conversion -- which should leave embedded bitmaps at their original res and be faster then rewriting the entire PDF by looking at all of the PDF internals in perl. Try it out and let me know.


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