looking for a tool which handles pdf files

Ulrich Spoerlein uspoerlein at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 13:06:45 UTC 2009


On Tue, 06.01.2009 at 17:11:54 +0100, Oliver Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a bunch of postcript files (generated by gschem) in various
> pagesizes (A0-A2). I want to have the generated PS files belonging to the
> same device in a multipaged PDF. Until now I'm cat-ing the ps files
> together doing some awk magic to get a multipage ps. I then convert the
> multipage PS file via ps2pdf to a multipage PDF. My problem now is, that
> ps2pdf can only set a general pagesize - so A0 for all pages for example
> - as far as I know.
> 
> I'm now looking for a tool which creates a multipage PDF with different
> pagesizes each page (if wanted). Someone told me pdftk could do this but
> I run an amd64 so no gcj/pdftk for me...
> 
> Someone knows another tool which would fit here?

Depending on your definition for "fit": I have used pdflatex and the
pdfpages package to cat, rotate, N-up and what-not several PDF
documents.

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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