Print Append? Acrobat Pro 6.0

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I'm using Acrobat Pro and I can't figure out how to do the following:

I have a few queries coming out of our database as seperate pdfs using the pdf printer option. Right now I manually combine them into one PDF. I want to have them print append into one pdf document to elimate the manual process.

I've seen a shareware product called pdffactory which seems to do this out of the box, but since I have the pro version of acrobat I figured that it was also in there.

 

[tgreer]

Acrobat lets you add pages from one PDF into another. I don't know if their Automation API supports this or not.

I use a commercial product, activePDF Toolkit, which does support this kind of functionality. It's a COM object, but can be used in .NET as well.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

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I'm actually printing out of a database query program and using the adobe print driver to save as a pdf. The problem occurs when the second report runs and I cant save/append to the same pdf file. I have to manually open up all of the pdfs and copy paste into one document.

So I want to "print" multiple jobs to one pdf.

 

[tgreer]

I understand; I can't add any information. The PDF format doesn't allow you to simply concatenate two PDF files. The internal structure of objects and XREF pointers has to be rewritten, etc.

So you need a tool that understands the PDF format, as I described.



Thomas D. Greer

http://www.tgreer.com

Providing PostScript & PDF
Training, Development & Consulting

 

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Thanks for your insight

 

[Pleonasm]

pdfFactory by FinePrint (

http://www.pdffactory.com/)

allows you to "print" multiple jobs from different applications into one PDF file -- plus preview the output and selectively delete individual pages (or jobs), if you wish. It's an outstanding utility, very inexpensive, and simple to use.