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joinPDF

command line tool to join and split PDF files

Version: 2.3.1

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For an alternative try Ghostscript

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Contributed by: stephan_de Thursday, May 29 2003 @ 04:52 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

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Place all the files to be merged in one specific folder on the Desktop. Then rename them, so they are in the right order (e.g. doc_1.pdf, doc_2.pdf, you'll get the idea).
Then open up Terminal.app and enter the following: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf
/folder/with/pdfs

Instead of writing /folder/with/pdfs you should - of course - actually drag the folder to this position (but make sure to include one blank after ".pdf").
This command will combine all your pdf files into one, that will be created in the same folder as your source files.

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For an alternative try Ghostscript - gdelfino

I was joining 3000 pdf files and joinPDF gave me a java out of memory error. With gs I was able to do the job. Thanks for the hint.

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