createPDF - combine PDFs

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Last Post: June 11, 2012 (RSS)

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By rjbathgate - June 7, 2012

Hey,

This is a long shot, but is there anyway to use the createPDF function to create one PDF output from multiple pdfs...

I.e. I upload PDF files x and y, and also create PDF Z from HTML using createPDF...

I want to then output one single PDF, of X, Y and Z.

I can do that locally, but want to be able to automate it online...

Any ideas?!

Thanks

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By Dave - June 7, 2012

Hi Rob,

Not that I know of. You could try embedding the PDFs in an HTML page with <object> or <embed> and calling createPDF on that page, or finding a command line linux app to merge multiple pdfs.

Let me know if you make any progress with this.

Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

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By rjbathgate - June 7, 2012

Hey Dave,

Have tried embed and object and neither work when running createPDF on it unfortunately.

Going to try 3rd party pdf displaying scripts and see if they rock any better results - will report back after the weekend!

Cheers

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By Toledoh - June 7, 2012

I looked into this a while ago, but never went much further.

This may help though: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9135109/wkhtmltopdf-add-content-to-the-bottom-of-the-last-page

Cheers,

Tim (toledoh.com.au)

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By rjbathgate - June 11, 2012

Thanks Toledoh - it looks as though that works for html additions in the footer area only too... no putting a pdf file into that footer unfortunately.

Thanks thou :)