Leonard Rosenthol on Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:40:13 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] combining PS and/or PDF's into a single doument?

At 11:13 AM 12/26/2001 -0500, Brian Epstein wrote: 
If you are using linux, you may have the "psmerge" command.  I found it in
the psutils-1.17-10 rpm on my RH 7.1 box.

The man page says this:

       Psmerge merges PostScript documents into  a  single  docu­
       ment.  It  only  works  in the specific case the the files
       were created using the same  application,  with  the  same
       device  setup  and  resources  (fonts, procsets, patterns,
       files, etc) loaded.

As documented above, be VERY CAREFUL using this! If the documents were NOT produced by the same program, in the same print run, you WILL NOT GET the expected results !



As far as PDF's go, I'd probably convert them to PS's and do the same.

Unless there is a good reason to do so, converting PDF->PS should be avoided as you can lose information.


LDR


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