Funny enough a few days latter I needed to merge some PDF files into a single document, instead of hunting the web for a Windows application to do that (I have to use Windows at work) I used scp to send the files to the home server, ran pdftk there and scp the merged PDF back ;)
So today I'll use Pdftk this time to merge several PDF documents into a single PDF.
Start by installing Pdftk if you haven't using your distributions package manager:
- Instructions for installing Pdftk for FreeBSD can be found here.
- If you are using a Debian based distribution issue apt-get install pdftk.
- Users of RPM distribution's such as RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux and Fedora can install it by running yum install pdftk.
- To install the program on Gentoo use emerge pdftk.
The steps to merge PDF documents into a single PDF consist of:
$ cd change_to_directory_with_target_pdfs$ pdftk first.pdf second.pdf third.pdf cat output merged-pdf.pdf
The PDF should be listed in the order in which they are to be placed in the final document. More information on Pdftk can be found using man pdftk.
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