From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F3130138359 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:26:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9572AE085B; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DF4E9E0802 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 87130 invoked by uid 3782); 10 Jul 2020 08:26:35 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15cef.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.92.239]) by localhost.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 10 Jul 2020 10:26:34 +0200 Received: (qmail 5117 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jul 2020 08:26:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:26:34 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together. Message-ID: <20200710082634.GB4890@ACM> References: <20200709133136.GA4852@ACM> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200709133136.GA4852@ACM> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 385c19e0-d903-4e5e-a475-e76a23dd3772 X-Archives-Hash: f3a32807e2b0a8af235fc089a34ee075 Hello, everybody on Gentoo. On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 13:31:36 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into > a single document. > Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this > with. Thanks to everybody who responded with a suggestion. In the end, I used pdfunite, simply because it was there. I don't have (and don't want) Java on my system, so that ruled out pdftk. Gerrit, you were quite right about sane producing ludicrously large PDF files. I should have cut my file down before emailing it off, but laziness got the better of me. :-( gentoo-user is a tremendous group! > Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).