Comments on: Combine multiple PDFs into one file in Ubuntu Linux

By: name

name — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:55:14 +0000

Thanks for this. BTW: the ps command worked fine for me without having pdftk installed.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:54:17 +0000

An easier alternative is pdfunite (poppler). You probably already have it installed.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:44:17 +0000

@Rick Useful idea to encapsulate this into a script, but the argument expansion causes problems if your filenames have whitespace in them; to fix this, quote “$@” so the file reads as follows:

#!/bin/bash gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combined.pdf -dBATCH "$@"

By: corey

corey — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 01:32:32 +0000

>T. Williams says:
>October 29, 2010 at 11:45 pm
>
>This application sucks! I never got it to work or even come up! I’ve uninsulated it and gone with PDF >Editor. >Perhaps someday there will be a way to use this program without having a programing degree.

I’m 17 and had no problem with this program. it runs in the terminal. i use ubuntu (as reference). i too found it easier to navigate to the folder then use *.pdf to combine the pdf files. other than that it is a simple copy paste from above. mine is currently still running as i have over 100megs to combine into one but i’m hoping for good results

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 06:47:53 +0000

Thanks alot….. God Bless

By: T. Williams

T. Williams — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:45:26 +0000

This application sucks! I never got it to work or even come up! I’ve uninsulated it and gone with PDF Editor. Perhaps someday there will be a way to use this program without having a programing degree.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:38:59 +0000

Does anyone know how to make it link the files without makin a pages per file. I mean, make them all together like linking pictures. In my case I have pictures of time series and I want to put one above the other, actually I get one page after the other.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:42:10 +0000

if you do this frequently, I’d suggest creating a simple shell script:
#!/bin/bash
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combined.pdf -dBATCH $@

save as /usr/local/bin/combinepdf, make it executable, and run it with:
combinepdf a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf
or even
combinepdf `ls -1 `

By: stuffit

stuffit — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:13:58 +0000

thanks for that you have just saved me lots of time

By: Rick van der Zwet

Rick van der Zwet — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:18:43 +0000

Works like a charm, thanks!

FTI: To save some typing (filenames) you could also you shell expansions instead:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combinedpdf.pdf -dBATCH ?.pdf

By: pem

pem — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:21:04 +0000

pdftk a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf cat output abc.pdf

this command is easier to remember.

By: Lasse

Lasse — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:16:00 +0000

Perfect!….just perfect. It even compresses the files a bit. Suited me just fine. Thx.

By: allen

allen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:40:43 +0000

Excellent! thanks so much!

By: Rick van der Zwet

Rick van der Zwet — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:21:34 +0000

Works like a sharm, thanks!

By: george m

george m — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:50:14 +0000

I’m a new ubuntu user. It’s dissapointing that none of the PDF gui programs in the list have this feature.

By: blah

blah — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:02:28 +0000

weiß ich leider nicht, müsstest du mal den author fragen

By: versuchsanstalt

versuchsanstalt — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:58:36 +0000

Will the appended files be preceded by a pagebreak?