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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