PDFCONCAT(1)

💖 PDFCONCAT 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the pdfconcat manual page and it's literally the glow-up your PDF pile has been waiting for 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

pdfconcat — a program to concatenate several PDF files. yes. that's the whole job. and she ate. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pdfconcat -o outfile.pdf input1.pdf [inputN.pdf ...]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents briefly the pdfconcat command. short and sweet, just like me when someone asks me to explain my shell history. 🙈

pdfconcat is a small and fast command-line utility written in ANSI C that can concatenate (merge) several PDF files into a long PDF document. External libraries are not required — only ANSI C functions are used. she's low maintenance, she's self-sufficient, she's giving main character energy fr fr. ✨

okay but here's the tea you actually need to know: several features of the output file are taken from the first input file only. for example, outlines (also known as hierarchical bookmarks) in subsequent input files are ignored. so whatever the first file brought to the group chat is what the whole merged doc is wearing. no takebacks. 💀

she also compresses her input a little bit by removing whitespace and unused file parts. tiny lil diet, nothing drastic, just tidying up. 🧚

and bestie, she's been tested. like, tested tested. this program has been tested on various huge PDFs downloaded from the Adobe web site, plus an 1200-pages long mathematics manual typeset by LaTeX, emitted by pdflatex, dvipdfm and gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite, totalling 5981 pages in a single PDF file. 5981. pages. one file. iconic behaviour, no cap. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -o output.pdf — Place output in file output.pdf. that's it, that's the one flag, she's a minimalist and honestly? obsessed. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• imgmerge(1)
• xpaint(1)

go say hi, they're friends of hers. 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

pdfconcat was written by Peter Szabo <pts@fazekas.hu>. 🖊️

This manual page was written by Josue Abarca <jmaslibre@debian.org.gt>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation please see /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 for the full text of the licence. legal besties, we love a permissive queen. ⭐

and that's the whole page, bestie — this one came out of the General Commands Manual, dated January 22, 2010, and it's serving Debian realness. go merge something gorgeous. bye pookie 💖✨