append_pdfs

Append/concatenate multiple PDF files into a single file using Ghostscript.

Description

This function appends multiple PDF files to an existing PDF file, or concatenates them into a PDF file if the output file doesn't yet exist. This can be much faster than appending PDFs one at at time.

This function requires that you have ghostscript installed on your system. Ghostscript can be downloaded from: http://www.ghostscript.com

It also includes code from the export_fig package to interface with Ghostcript.

Acknowledgements

Export Fig inspired this file.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.11 (R2010b)
• Other requirements: Ghostscript

[Courtney]

Bitmap/vector problem appears to have resolved itself. Disregard my question. Thanks!

[Courtney]

Hi Oliver,
Thanks for your suite of image exporting functions. I'm having an issue with complex (large, ~15MB) vector-rendered pdfs being transformed to bitmaps when combined, and getting pixelated. Any way around this?

[Claudia]

 

[Ben Noffke]

 

[Christoph david]

 

[Christoph david]

Thank you very much! You were right. I created a cell array and now it works.

I apologize for the rate.
This was my first post on mathworks. When I clicked the "submit" button nothing happend so I thought I have to rate. Without thinking (and without reading) I rated 4 stars. Than I realised that I just had to reload the page to see my post.
Sorry for that.

Thank you for this tool!

[Oliver Woodford]

Christoph: This an issue with your use of MATLAB syntax, rather than anything else. Make a cell array, string1, of the input file names, then call
append_pdfs('output.pdf', string1{:});
It's not clear why gave the function 4 stars. Any suggestions?

[Christoph david]

It works when I write output, input1, input2 inside '' with .pdf extensions <== true.
+ I can't make it work if I stock all inputs during a loop in a string (the string includes the apostrophes and commas)
e.g. string1='input1','input2'
append_pdfs('output',string1) doesn't work.
Anyone an idea how to make it work?
Thx a lot!

[Hakan Çakan]

Oliver,
Thank you very much. I solved it but in the help section it is written that:

% Example:
% append_pdfs(output, input1, input2, ...)

It works when I write output, input1, input2 inside '' with .pdf extensions. It would be beter if you update help file accordingly.

Thanks again.

[Oliver Woodford]

Michael: Fix submitted. Thanks for reporting the problem.

[Michael Teo]

I was trying to appends 200+pdfs to 1 pdf. It resulted in "The command line is too long." message.

Pls advise, thanks.

[Oliver Woodford]

Thanks, David. It'll be in the next version.

[David Chorlian]

Regarding ghostscript.m, in Linux /usr/bin/gs is the more likely path for gs.