APPENDPDF(1p)

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✨ APPENDPDF(1p) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to appendpdf 💖 this is a little Perl script from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crowd, and it does exactly one thing: glues two PDFs together. no cap. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

appendpdf — Append one PDF to another

like... that's it. that's the whole job. append. pdf. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

appendpdf [options] file1.pdf file2.pdf [outfile.pdf]

Options:
  -p --prepend        prepend the document instead of appending it
  -f --forms          wipe all forms and annotations from the PDF
  -o --order          preserve the internal PDF ordering for output
  -v --verbose        print diagnostic messages
  -h --help           verbose help message
  -V --version        print CAM::PDF version

so you hand it file1.pdf and file2.pdf, and optionally an outfile.pdf to write to, and it does the thing. iconic behaviour honestly ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Copy the contents of file2.pdf to the end of file1.pdf. boom. two PDFs, one PDF now. main character merge energy 👑

⚠️ heads up bestie: this may break complex PDFs which include forms, so the --forms option is provided to eliminate those elements from the resulting PDF. so like... if your PDF is fancy and form-y, don't rawdog this, pass --forms. fr fr 😭

and yeah, all the flags from the synopsis work here too — -p/--prepend to stick the doc at the front instead of the back, -f/--forms to wipe all forms and annotations, -o/--order to preserve the internal PDF ordering for output, -v/--verbose for diagnostic messages, -h/--help for a verbose help message, and -V/--version to print the CAM::PDF version. slay. 🎀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • CAM::PDF — the whole reason this exists, the blueprint, the blueprint's blueprint 💜
  • deletepdfpage — for when you gotta remove a page instead of adding one, the opposite vibe entirely 🙈

💜 AUTHOR 💜

See CAM::PDF

(yes that's literally the whole author section, they said "go read the other one" and honestly? valid. efficient. ate.) 🍓

and that's the page bestie!! this lil legend comes from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-12-08, under the User Contributed Perl Documentation banner — so if you ever forget where you got it, that's the receipt 🧚✨ go forth and append, you absolute icon 💖💅🦋

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