[Pythonmac-SIG] Concatenate PDFS's with python

[Lance Boyle]

Well, for that matter, I _think_ you can drag-and-drop into TextEdit 
and/or Preview and Save As.... That should be scriptable. macoshints 
might have covered that, too.

Lance


On Feb 18, 2004, at 11:37 AM, israel at uandmedance.com wrote:

> Hear is a little hint that I found on Macosxhints.com:
>
> http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20020714102702896
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> On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 11:52 PM, Dinu Gherman wrote:
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>> Tim Conner:
>>
>>> I'm looking for some print house type solutions that use 
>>> coregraphics/quartz and python to manipulate images, eps's, and 
>>> pdfs. To get started on this quest it would be nice if someone could 
>>> point me to examples or write a quick sub-routine that would take 2 
>>> pdfs and combine them into 1, 2-page pdf. I just need a stepping 
>>> stone to get me rolling. I also need the same thing for jpegs, but 
>>> once I see a pdf example, I should hope I can handle that on my own.
>>
>> I tried that on 10.2 using NSPDFView or something like that and
>> it just did not have the right methods to accomplish that kind
>> of task, i.e. picking/displaying single pages from a PDF would
>> work, but not reassembling them in a new PDF file. I'd be grate-
>> ful to know if that changed on 10.3...
>>
>> OTOH, there is ReportLab's PageCatcher module which I used to
>> work with, but which has changing "usage philosophies", i.e. it
>> used to be a standalone product, then it was bundled into some
>> huge enterprise product, then it became sort of free for members
>> of the ReportLab Developper Network. Now I'm pretty much lost...
>> See also the links below.
>>
>>   http://python.net/~gherman/RLTK.html
>>   http://www.reportlab.com/pagecatcher_index.html
>>
>> In former times I had written a Mac OS X app named Papaguino,
>> which was a GUI around PageCatcher. Its still around, but re-
>> quires a Python installation in /usr/local/bin. I could well
>> repackage Papaguino into a pure Python app, but given the
>> PageCatcher licensing uncertainties, I'm not very eager on
>> doing that.
>>
>>   http://python.net/~gherman/Papaguino.html
>>
>> Finally, you may want to try PDFpen which was recently reviewed
>> favourably in a magazine, although it might be slow on huge docu-
>> ments... It seems like it does all that Papaguino does, plus a
>> few more things:
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>>   http://www.smileonmymac.com/pdfpen/
>>
>> Hope that helps,
>>
>> Dinu
>>
>> --
>> Dinu C. Gherman - http://python.net/~gherman
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