[pdftex] Merging PDFs

[Kester Clegg]

Lukas Mathis <lukas.mathis at iogram.ch> writes:

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> First, I can't seem to figure out how to import PDF files that are
> several pages long. They always get cropped after the first page.

Perhaps you should check the archives?  Posted by "Patrick Brockmann
(LSCE/IPSL)" <Patrick.Brockmann at ipsl.jussieu.fr>:

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Hi all,

I would like to thank those who answered to my install question
especially Andreas Matthias and Ross Moore.
Thanks also to Andreas MATTHIAS
who has developped the wonderful pdfpages package.

Patrick

Here are the notes, I took during my diffrent install:

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pdflatex and pdfpages installation

 Update: March, 19th 2002

The goal is to install pdfpages which is a package to include PDF
documents in LaTeX.
"This package makes it easy to include pages from external PDF
documents in LaTeX documents. It is possible to
arrange two or four logical pages from a PDF document on each
physical sheet of paper from LaTeX. It is similar to
\includegraphics in some respects. Landscape format is supported.
Pages are centered automatically. You can select
pages to be included with, e.g., pages={3,5-11,20,38}. "

pdfpages package runs only with 14h released of pdflatex.
To check this, type pdflatex -v. You should get:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C7.3.3.1)

Once, you are sure to get this right release. You should be able to run
examples given in the pdfpages package
pdflatex pdf-ex.tex  and pdflatex pdf-hyp.tex

If everything is allright then you can forget the following lines!
If not, hope this will help.

Information links:

    pdflatex: http://www.tug.org/teTeX/
    and: http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
    pdfpages:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

    and installation:
    http://www.ctan.org/installationadvice/#installationguidelines

What I did:

    Linux Workstations as root
     1.teTeX distribution
           Install/Upgrade with RPM to tetex-latex-1.0.7-38.2
           (See http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/)
        At this stage, TeX distribution should be installed with the
        pdflatex 14h-released.

     2.pdfpages package
           Get last pdftex.def file from
           http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
           Update pdftex.def
               # cp pdftex.def
               /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics

           Get pdfpages package tar file from

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

               # cp pdfpages.tar /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
               # cd /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
               # tar xvf pdfpages.tar
               # cd pdfpages

               # pdflatex pdfpages.ins
               # pdflatex pdfpages.dtx
               # pdflatex pdf-ex.tex
               # pdflatex pdf-hyp.tex

               # texhash

    Other Workstations (not as simple as with Linux!)
     1.teTeX binary distribution
           Unset all previous TEX environment variables
           Get last precompiled binary (1.0) from
           http://www.tug.org/teTeX/ and nearest ftp site
           Install following instructions given in the INSTALL file
               # mkdir binaries base doc fonts goodies
               # ftp nearest.ftp.site
               ftp> cd tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/
               ftp> bin
               ftp> dir binaries
               ftp> prompt
               ftp> mget install.sh base doc fonts goodies
               binaries/xxxxxxxxx.tar.gz

               # install.sh

        At this stage, TeX distribution should be installed, but not
        with the pdflatex 14h-released.

     2.pdflatex (14h-released)
           Get last sources with

ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/0.14h/pdftex-20010417.tgz

               # mkdir ~/mypdflatex
               # cp pdftex-20010417.tgz ~/mypdflatex
               # cd ~/mypdflatex
               # gunzip pdftex-20010417.tgz
               # tar xvf pdftex-20010417.tar

           Install following instructions
               # cd src
               # configure --prefix=~/mypdflatex
               # cd texk/web2c
               Edit the Makefile and remove string `datestr`
               which does not exist on my different platforms
               Change also the CC flag from gcc to cc (on my
               DEC alpha-osf platforms)
               # make pdftexbin

           Copy and regeneration of pool and format files
               # cp ~/mypdflatex/src/texk/web2c/pdftex
               ~/mytetex/bin/

               # cp ~/mypdflatex/src/texk/web2c/pdftex.pool
               ~/mytetex/share/texmf/web2c/

               # cd ~/mytetex/share/texmf/tex/latex/base
               # ~/mytetex/bin/pdftex -ini -fmt=pdflatex latex.ltx

               # cp pdflatex.fmt ~/mytetex/share/texmf/web2c/

        At this stage, TeX distribution should be installed with the
        pdflatex 14h-released.

     3.pdfpages package
           Get last pdftex.def file from
           http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/
           Update pdftex.def
               # cp pdftex.def
               ~/mytetex/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/

           Get pdfpages package tar file from

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/pdfpages/

               # cp pdfpages.tar ~/mytetex/share/texmf/tex/latex

               # cd ~/mytetex/share/texmf/tex/latex
               # tar xvf pdfpages.tar
               # cd pdfpages

               # ~/mytetex/bin/pdflatex pdfpages.ins
               # ~/mytetex/bin/pdflatex pdfpages.dtx
               # ~/mytetex/bin/pdflatex pdf-ex.tex
               # ~/mytetex/bin/pdflatex pdf-hyp.tex

               # cd ~/mytetex/share/texmf
               # ~/mytetex/bin/texhash
               If texhash has no action (?), use
               # ls -R >! ls-R

     4.Update your path
           set path=($path /your/install/teTeX/directory/bin)

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