Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

** Reply to message from Peter West <lists@pbw.id.au> on Wed, 29 Jan 2014
23:04:39 +1000

Peter,

Could you explain off list how to do it with Preview? I've looked it over and
there is no obvious way I can see to do it. Thanks.

Cliff

> Another way to manipulate PDFs is with PDFBox.
> https://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html
>
> If you're on a Mac, you can just use Preview.
>
> However, these things are not designed to modify the layout of pages. 
> PDF is a page definition format; it defines the layout of pages. There 
> are only very limited changes you can make.
>
> Changing layouts means going back to sources and re-creating the PDFs.
> On 29/01/2014 2:32 pm, Anthony Baldwin wrote:
> > On 01/28/2014 09:50 PM, Don Myers wrote:
> > > Hi Charles,
> > >
> > > I'm not aware of any way to merge multiple pdf files using LO.
> >
> > The only way I know to merge pdf files with with pdftk.
> > http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
> > Works great.
> >
> > tony
> >
> > There are
> > > others on the list more knowledgeable than I, so maybe it can be done.
> > > There is a free, open source program that I've used to merge multiple
> > > PDF files into one file called PDFsam. It is available for Linux,
> > > Windows, and Mac. In Ubuntu there is an older version in the software
> > > center. That is what I've used. It has always worked well.
> > >
> > > Don
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 01/28/2014 08:41 PM, charles meyer wrote:
> > > > I've got 3 or so separate PDF files.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2
> > > >
> > > > Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic
> > > > image.
> > > >
> > > > Ex. 2 inches above and below the graphic on each page and a good 3
> > > > inches on each side of each graphic is white, empty space.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way to eliminate all the empty space around each graphic in
> > > > in each page in each PDF or once all the PDFs are merged into one
> > > > larger PDF?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks so much,
> > > >
> > > > Charles.

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