Gareth Jones » openoffice http://blog.garethj.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:37:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Merging and converting OpenOffice and PDF documents http://blog.garethj.com/2009/01/merging-and-converting-openoffice-and-pdf-documents/ http://blog.garethj.com/2009/01/merging-and-converting-openoffice-and-pdf-documents/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:33:12 +0000 gareth http://blog.garethj.com/?p=121 Continue reading →]]> For my BSL level 3 course I have a variety of OpenOffice documents for different forms etc which make up the portfolio. I wanted a way to merge these into a single document but they each had different margins and all sorts; this meant doing it within OpenOffice was proving to be a pain. My solution was to write a quick shell script to convert each document into PDF and then merge the multiple PDFs. The script looks something like the following:


# convert to pdf
unoconv -f pdf myfile1.odt myfile2.odt ...
# merge pdfs
pdftk myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf ...
# remove individual pdf documents
rm myfile1.pdf myfile2.pdf ...

A handy little hack to generate my entire portfolio.

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