[Linux-disciples] Merging two .pdf or .docs for duplex printing

[Karl Sokol]

pdftk A=doc-a.pdf B=doc-b.pdf cat `for (( i=1; i <= 100; i=i+1 )); do printf
"A%d B1 " $i; done` output combined.pdf

Beautiful!  It worked like a charm.  You have saved me hours of dealing with
jammed paper!  If ever I am in Boston and you need your house painted...



On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Dylan Thurston <dpt at math.columbia.edu>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:06:28PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:
> > Thanks.  I have been having fun with pdftk.  However, I am still a little
> green
> > to even basic command line commands.
> >
> > doc-a.pdf has 100 pages. doc-b.pdf has 1 page.  I want the combined
> document to
> > look like  a1,b1,a2,b1,a3,b1,a4,b1...  In other words, combined.pdf
> should be
> > 200 pages long.
> >
> > I am sure this is basic, but I can't find an example of this in man files
> or
> > online tutorials.
>
> It doesn't look like this is standard, but it's easy to simulate:
>
> pdftk A=doc-a.pdf B=doc-b.pdf cat `for (( i=1; i <= 100; i=i+1 )); do
> printf "A%d B1 " $i; done`
>
> Peace,
>        Dylan
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