Re: [PLUG] file container format

[Isaac Bennetch <bennetch@gmail.com>]

On 10/25/2011 11:51 AM, Conor Schaefer wrote:

[snip]

> How about converting all documents to PDF and concatenating them? Then
> you can add your own bookmarks as you see fit, whether by week, or
> month, or what have you.

Seems pretty trivial to take this to the next step. A shell script that 
takes a list of files as arguments and then:

* Assembles a TOC based on the argument list (or date, or whatever)
* Converts the files to PDF as needed
* Concatenates the TOC and files in order to one master PDF

Seems rather simple to put together to me. Although perhaps a 
machine-generated table of contents isn't enough information, and I 
can't recall offhand whether pdftk's "cat" will maintain the ability to 
search text within PDFs (but I suspect it would).

Good luck regardless.

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