how do you join pdfs / ps to make a book

[Joel Hammer]

Well, I haven't done this for serious work yet, but I just tried this, and
it worked amazingly well.

Two eps files (file1.eps and file2.eps) which contain large color images.
The command (ImageMagick package, I believe)
convert file1.eps file1.html
convert file2.eps file2.html

Creates an html file and a gif file with the image in it for each eps file.
You can edit the html for any layout you want.
Then:

html2ps -D file1.html file2.html > big.ps
ps2pdf big.ps big.pdf

Gives nice results.

Note: html2ps has a lot of options.

Now, I don't get very high resolution with the ps file, although the pdf
file looks fine. I'm not sure why. There may be a configuration item I have
missed, somewhere.

There are alternative to html2ps, but so far, it has worked very nicely for
me.

Joel


On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 12:28:10PM +1000, James McDonald wrote:
> Folks
> 
> I have been doing some network diagrams in dia ( 
> http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/ ) and then printing them to file.ps and 
> using ps2pdf to convert them into a pdf document.
> 
> My question is how do you join either ps or pdfs together to form a document?
> 
> Any suggestions would be well appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> James McDonald
> Systems Engineer
> 
> 
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