Join many PDF into one

[Bruce Pokras]

The shell command using Python still works fine in Snow Leopard. The error for "CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox" does not cause a problem.

On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Martin Koob wrote:

> 
> I found a page that explains how Automator actually joins PDFs and it
> explains how to use the same method.
> 
> http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060327192826493
> 
> It used a python command.
> #! /usr/bin/python
> #
> # join
> #   Joing pages from a a collection of PDF files into a single PDF file.
> #
> #   join [--output <file>] [--append] [--shuffle] [--preview] [--verbose]"
> #
> #   Parameter:
> #
> #   --shuffle
> #	Take a page from each PDF input file in turn before taking another from
> each file.
> #	If this option is not specified then all of the pages from a PDF file are
> appended
> #	to the output PDF file before the next input PDF file is processed.
> #
> #   --verbose
> #   Write information about the doings of this tool to stderr.
> #
> 
> The author used the following as a prototype for the command.
> 
> python '/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF
> Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py' -o '/path/to/output.pdf'
> '/path/to/input1.pdf' '/path/to/input2.pdf'
> 
> I tried this out by putting 2 PDFs (pg1.pdf & pg2.pdf in a directory) then
> in terminal changed directory to that directory. And did the following
> command in the terminal.
> 
> Martin-Koobs-MacBook-Pro:PDF joins MartinLdrive$ python
> '/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF
> Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py' -o 'combined.pdf' 'pg1.pdf'
> 'pg2.pdf'
> 
> This successfully created a PDF combined.pdf in the working directory but
> generated an error as you can see from the terminal output below.
> 
> Mon Dec 27 08:34:54 Martin-Koobs-MacBook-Pro.local Python[310] <Error>: The
> function `CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox' is obsolete and will be removed in an
> upcoming update. Unfortunately, this application, or a library it uses, is
> using this obsolete function, and is thereby contributing to an overall
> degradation of system performance. Please use `CGPDFPageGetBoxRect' instead.
> Martin-Koobs-MacBook-Pro:PDF joins MartinLdrive$ 
> 
> This was done in Mac OS X 10.5.8   I don't know if they changed the python
> command in 10.6 so if they did this may not work.
> 
> Any way I think you could use that as a shell command in LiveCode.  I
> haven't tried it though.  You would have to construct the command using
> variables to insert your file paths then do it as a shell command.
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