So I created a simple script that probably makes some poor PDFs but it works.
#!/bin/sh # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. OUTPUT=- VERBOSE=false PDFTOPS=/usr/bin/pdftops PS2PDF=/usr/bin/ps2pdf usage() { echo Usage: `basename $0` [-v] [-o output file] files echo pdfcat concatenats PDF files in argument order into a echo single PDF file or to stdout. Beware when specifying echo wildcard arguments as the pages will come in the order echo your shell picks them up. echo echo Arguments: echo " -h Show this help screen" echo " -l Show the GPL license" echo " -v Use verbose mode...not very verbose" echo " -o OUTPUT Send the output PDF to the specified" echo " file. If missing output is generated" echo " to stdout" } license() { echo "This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify" echo "it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by" echo "the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or" echo "(at your option) any later version." echo echo "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful," echo "but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of" echo "MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the" echo "GNU General Public License for more details." echo echo "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License" echo "along with this program. If not, see <=http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>." } while getopts "vhlo:" OPTION do case $OPTION in h) usage exit 1 ;; l) license exit 1 ;; v) VERBOSE=true ;; o) OUTPUT=$OPTARG ;; ?) usage exit1 ;; esac done shift $(( OPTIND-1 )) ( for pdf in $* do if $VERBOSE then echo -n Processing `basename $pdf` >&2 fi $PDFTOPS $pdf - if $VERBOSE then echo " DONE" >&2 fi done ) | $PS2PDF - $OUTPUT
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