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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 2009 14:06:36 +0100
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        Oliver Lehmann <lehmann@ans-netz.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: looking for a tool which handles pdf files
Message-ID:  <20090107130636.GB1462@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090106171154.16f10a0a.lehmann@ans-netz.de>
References:  <20090106171154.16f10a0a.lehmann@ans-netz.de>

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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
-- 
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to speak, and remove all doubt.



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