<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b73599ee-9a87-494a-8709-046a2528008f/92A7E256-BFA9-4ACC-919B-59EE00058CC3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.linux.com/archive/?module=comments&func=display&cid=1151963" href="http://www.linux.com/archive/?module=comments&func=display&cid=1151963" style="font-size: 11px;">www.linux.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.linux.com/archive/?module=comments&func=display&cid=1151963"><DIV class="xar-accent xar-cm-comment"><DIV> a great program. Using it for quite a while on OSX Panther and Tiger in production environment. Works extremely well and handles correctly spot colors and fonts. It has an option not only to burst the output but also to rename it correctly.</DIV><BR /><DIV>pdftk myfile.pdf burst output myNEWname_"percent sign"03d.pdf</DIV><BR /><DIV>this would burst the file and output in a new name with keeping always 3 spaces for number - like 003, 033, 133 so they are in correct order on the sort.</DIV><BR />bojidar <P> <A rel="bookmark" title="Permalink" href="http://www.linux.com/archive/?module=comments&func=display&cid=1151963"> # </A> </p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/53701" href="http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/53701" style="font-size: 11px;">www.linux.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/53701"><P>Pdftk's ability to join two or more PDF files is on par with such specialized applications as pdfmeld and joinPDF (discussed in <A href="http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/09/1844259">this article</A>). The command syntax is simple:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/53701"><CODE>pdftk file1.pdf file2.pdf cat output newFile.pdf</CODE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/53701"><P> <CODE>cat</CODE> is short for concatenate -- that is, <EM>link together</EM>, for those of us who speak plain English -- and <CODE>output</CODE> tells pdftk to write the combined PDFs to a new file.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/92A7E256-BFA9-4ACC-919B-59EE00058CC3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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