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A reddit post in r/fednews. Trump Took Away Adobe Acrobat and it took Me 45min to Combine Files Fed only Not that this matters but for anyone who thinks this is creating efficiency, Trump/Elmo took away my agencies Adobe acrobate away which means I can’t edit documents. So instead of being efficient and taking 5seconds to combine a pdf, I took 45min along with IT to combine files. That’s how I spend my time these days, trying to overcome the obstacles they put in place so I can do my job. For all this talk about government employees not doing work, I’m working double time just to keep up with what they are doing.
You can join PDFs in GIMP in a pinch.
Its not efficient but its possible…
I have 100% used my iPad to combine PDFs in a pinch. I was in a bind and away from my desk. Turns out, iPads can combine PDFs directly from the file manager. Hate on Apple all you want, but that shit should come standard with every OS by this point.
I have a cli command for it somewhere in my shell history
Oooh I’d love to see that if you find a spare moment 🙏
I’ll totally check it if I remember. Don’t hesitate to ping me if I don’t reply with it in a day.
Windows, Linux, or mac?
Linux or Mac, but if you only have windows I can convert, thank you!
With
pdftkit’spdftk $(ls -v *.pdf) cat output merged.pdffor all pdf files in the directory andpdftk a.pdf b.pdf cat output merged.pdffor specific files.Libreoffice draw can edit PDFs, and is polished the same as all the rest of the Libreoffice suite. It works pretty well in my experience.
What is wrong with pdfcat?
Sometimes I don’t like using a CLI program, especially for something so visual like PDFs. If I don’t need to make any edits to a PDF and am only arranging it, I like to use a program called PDFarranger.
If I wanted a gui, I’d first check to see if there is an xpdfcat command.
pdfunite FTW
Nobody knows it exists, apparently.
(And even worse, people are too computer-illiterate to think “hey, maybe there’s a solution for my problem” and figure out how to go find it.)
NAPS2 will do it too, and quickly.