combining pdf

[minhaj]

i want to combine few pdfs to one pdf. which software i can use.

[mps2006]

PDFTK:

http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/

Used to be in the repos, but dropped for some reason. If you are on F7 or before yum install pdftk is sufficient. Otherwise get the source rpm

http://rpmseek.com/rpm/pdftk-1.41-5....:3952772:0:0:0

then (as root):

rpmbuild --rebuild pdftk-1.41-5.fc7.src.rpm

There may be dependecies you need to install, particularly libgcj-devel, the rpm build output should tell you. Its an F7 package, but worked fine for me on F8

pdfedit (in the repos so yum install pdfedit) can also do it, but it has a really clunky interface and pdftk is IMHO much quicker for simple jobs.

HTH

M.

[sideways]

you can install pdfjam from the repositories

 yum info pdfjam
Available Packages
Name   : pdfjam
Arch   : noarch
Version: 1.20
Release: 5.fc6
Size   : 57 k
Repo   : fedora
Summary: Utilities for join, rotate and align PDFs
Description:
PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts which provide a simple
interface to some of the functionality of the excellent pdfpages
package (by Andreas Matthias) for pdfLaTeX.  At present the utilities
available are:

  * pdfnup, which allows PDF files to be "n-upped" in roughly the way
    that psnup does for PostScript files;
  * pdfjoin, which concatenates the pages of multiple PDF files
    together into a single file;
  * pdf90, which rotates the pages of one or more PDF files through 90
    degrees (anti-clockwise).

In every case, source files are left unchanged.

A potential drawback of these utilities is that any hyperlinks in the
source PDF are lost. On the positive side, there is no appreciable
degradation of image quality in processing PDF files with these
programs, unlike some other indirect methods such as "pdf2ps | psnup |
ps2pdf" (in the author's experience).

[A.Serbinski]

You don't need special software for this. Ghostscript (which is installed by default) will do the job just fine...
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf .... filen.pdf