How-to join multiple pdf files in Linux

by Akaname — last modified Jul 30, 2011 12:08 AM

You don't need commercial programs to join (also: concatenate, merge or combine) pdf files. All you need is a standard Linux distribution with ghostscript installed!

Join pdf files

by Akaname — last modified Jul 29, 2011 11:46 PM

This will join multiple pdf files:

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=joined.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

See man gs for ghostscript documentation.

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