Merging PDF files through LC

[JB]

Well it was a good try anyway.  I am going to search
for some pdf code and see if I can find any that can
be used in Xcode that will show what is going on.

John Balgenorth


On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:

> Adobe has a document describing the structure. Looks like the format is a little more complicated than would permit this. I tried it, the resulting document is corrupted (of course). But if you knew how to extract the pointers to all the objects, and the body information containing any fonts and other things, it is *possible* to add to an existing PDF document. It would take a lot of testing and poking around though. 
> 
> I would bet on a Mac, Applescript would have a way of combining two documents by telling Acrobat to do so. 
> 
> Bob S
> 
> 
> On Sep 30, 2014, at 15:28 , JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
> 
>> It might know by some info at the beginning of the
>> file but you could probably delete it.
>> 
>> John Balgenorth
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:25 PM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> That is a good question.  How would the file know
>>> anything other than it is still a file only larger.
>>> 
>>> John Balgenorth
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I wonder what would happen if you opened the two PDF’s as binary files, then wrote them back out to a single file…
>>>> 
>>>> Bob S
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 30, 2014, at 06:21 , Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <skip at magicgate.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anybody know of a way (on Windows) to merge two PDF documents together via
>>>>> scripting?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any insight would be helpful if you have done this before.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>> 
>>>>> SKIP
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