Saving Files

[Tony P.]

Hello,

I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files
together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to
find an application which would string these files together. I think there
was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember the
command.

 

[Bruno]

I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files
together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to
find an application which would string these files together. I think there
was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember
the command.

There's no DOS command to concatenate pdf files.
"copy/b file1.pdf+file2.pdf concatenated.pdf" doesn't work (concatenated.pdf
is invalid). You may have used a command-line program not supplied with the
OS.

"How to concatenate PDFs without pain":
http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/software/pdf-append.php

 

[Bill in Co.]

I don't think you can do that successfully for PDF files. (For text or
binary files, sure, but if you concatenate PDF files, I doubt if any PDF
reader will be able to open it).

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hello,

I have a group of PDF files. I would like to string all of these files
together under a new filename. I have Adobe pdf reader but was unable to
find an application which would string these files together. I think there
was a way of doing this using the old DOS Cmd line, but I can't remember the
command.

Concatenating files in DOS would give you a useful result *if* the
files were text files. Doing that with pdf files wouldn't work.

Perhaps you could do this with the full Adobe Acrobat (not Adobe
Reader); I'm not sure. If not, the only other suggestion I have is to
convert the files to a word-processing format (WordPerfect and other
third-party programs have that capability), concatenate them in the
word processor, then create a new pdf file from the result.

But my experience with using WordPerfect to read pdf files and convert
them to WordPerfect format has been less than outstanding. It works OK
with simple pdf files, but makes a mess with more complicated ones. I
have no experience with other such programs and can't comment on them.

 

[db.·.. >]

what it entails is simply
inserting the pdf files into
one main one.

it would then be something
like a single/main pdf with
each of the pdf's that were
inserted into it and becoming
like chapters in a book.

the feature is provided by
the full install of adobe
acrobat but not sure
if the free reader provides
the method of inserting/merging
pdf files into one.

perhaps, the freeware
convertors for pdf like
primo pdf or others may
provide a similar feature.