A simple Ghostscript command to merge two PDFs in a single file is shown below:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=combine.pdf -dBATCH 1.pdf 2.pdfInstall Ghostscript:
Type the command sudo apt-get install ghostscript to download and install the ghostscript package and all of the packages it depends on.
Works perfectly on Cygwin @Windows 10 64 bit . Thanks !
Is there a way to merge them together to make a double spread pdf? something like this, but with ghostscript?
didn't work for me. silly errors in the output that i did not understand.
but pdftk free did work for me => https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
beautifully simple and fast command line. might help someone else
pdftk.exe input_*.pdf output combined.pdf
Thanks
I slightly modified @oliverlambson 's function to accept n arguments, where the first argument is the name of the resulting pdf.
pdfcombine () { gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=${1%.*}.pdf -dBATCH ${@:2} }
Added a check. Found it handy to have in .zshrc.
Usage will be eg. pdfmerge mergerd.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf
function pdfmerge() {
if [[ $# -lt 2 ]]; then
echo "usage: $0 <out.pdf> <in1.pdf> <in2.pdf> ... <inn.pdf>" >&2
return 1
fi
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -sOutputFile=$@ ;
}
Any downside to using -o?
Auto adds the -dBATCH and -dNOPAUSE ... Found in the docs here
gs -o combine.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress 1.pdf 2.pdf
thank you!
This could not be easier ! Thank you very much !
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Thank you! I wasted a lot of hours fighting with libraries for NodeJS to just merge PDFs and you save me! 😍 Sometimes (almost always?) simpliest solutions are the best!
I added this to a function in my
.zshrc(or.bash_profilefor *nix) for easier use.Then you can just run
Which will output the combined pdfs to a file called
file1___file2.pdfInspired by this gist which is using ghostscript to compress a pdf.