Print different jobs into 1 pdf?

[Michael Goffioul]

> > Note that "ps2pdf" is only wrapper around "gs" with the pdfwrite
> > device pre-selected. So the concatenation feature is actually
> > a feature of ghostscript. Now, using the pswrite device instead,
> > you should be able to do exactly the same and generate a concatenated
> > PS file. That means defining a pseudo printer around the command:
> >
> > gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pswrite <file1> <file2> <file3> ...
> >
> 
> Here is the problem.
> 
> pswrite doesn't work reliably for all kinds of input files. Or at
> least, it didn't work when I last checked.
> 
> The reason is, that you should normally have a PostScript "wrapping
> routine" of "gsave...<file1> grestore... gsave <file2> grestore..."
> around each of the input files.

I'm not running Linux currently, so I can't check, but can't you fix
this kind of problems using the utilities found in psutils package?

Michael.

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