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- <li><em>date</em>: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:41:45 -0400</li>
- <li><em>from</em>: joe at madewell.com (Joe Steele)</li>
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On occasion I find it useful to take a whole bunch of PDFs and convert
them into a single PDF for viewing/printing/searching:
for i in *.pdf; do pdftops --paper match "$i" -; done > master-doc.ps
ps2pdf13 master-doc.ps
(I prefer pdftops over pdf2ps because it doesn't convert the fonts to
bitmaps.)
--Joe
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