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disciple · Posted: Thu 01 Nov 2007, 00:36 Post subject:

That's the one.

OK. I just updated the script. Changes:
-A bit extra in the help windows
-Quoted the ROX command - the script now fully works with spaces in the path/name of the output file
-Changed the defaults so they are set to the working directory. (I really was silly - I was using /temp instead of /tmp Smile

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-Changed the file selector for the output file to accept folders instead of files, so you can choose an empty directory, but you have to manually add the file name, so you can't just click on an existing file.

I'll just go and remove that "apology dialog". It is a leftover from an earlier stage of the design process.

disciple · Posted: Thu 01 Nov 2007, 03:30 Post subject:

OK, I sorted out the output file selection - that works great now.
If I can only get spaces in the input files to work...

john biles · Joined: 17 Sep 2006 Posts: 1323 Location: Australia

Hello disciple,
Just letting you know that I will be including joinPDF in the Bugfix / Update of TEENpup 2.14.1 which will be released soon. Very Happy

disciple · Posted: Thu 01 Nov 2007, 16:53 Post subject:

Sweet - hopefully some people will find it useful.

I've given up on trying to get it to work with spaces in the input files, as I can't figure out why gs can handle quoted inputs manually typed at the command line, but not from a script Sad

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1231 Location: Ukraine

Dear disciple,

I know this is a crude suggestion, but you could use a routine like the one below, but rather than using "mv" as in the attached script, replace it with "ln" to create symlinks in a temporary dir. You could then pass the symlinks to gs and remove them and the tmp dir after processing the pdfs. It's not a particularly elegant solution, I admit, but I think it just might do the trick.

I do find your program useful as I compose music and output scores to pdf files (for the moment, using Windows in a virtual machine). The parts - sometimes over 25 separate files for various instruments - also have to be included at the end of the main pdf (conductor's score) to simplify printing and emailing. JoinPdf does exactly what I need for that operation, so thanks.

With kind regards,
vovchik

disciple · Posted: Thu 01 Nov 2007, 20:22 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Sat 08 Dec 2007, 19:26 Post subject:

muggins thinks this approach might help deal with spaces in the name/path. It is too complicated for me, but someone else maybe able to do something with it Smile

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Sorry Disciple,

I should have clarified. The only bit that deals with filenames containing spaces could be summarised as:

disciple · Posted: Sat 08 Dec 2007, 20:27 Post subject:

Yes, but I couldn't figure out how to integrate that with the recursive approach of my script Sad

disciple

We can create a temporary folder somewhere, and as we find each pdf, symlink it into that folder, with a name that is the current count, and then we join like this:
~# gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="/ouput path/output file.pdf" ~/.joinpdf/*.pdf
I checked, and gs does join files with an *, so now we just need to figure out how to create all those symlinks. I figure no one will be joining more than 100 files, so we can start at 01. Or I guess to be really sure we could do 001, 002, 003...
Or maybe it would be easier to start at 100 so we don't have to figure out a way to prefix the zeros. So we just somehow get a count and add 100.

disciple

OK, fixed. New version in the first post.
Thanks Pizzasgood for the help.

disciple · Posted: Thu 06 Aug 2009, 04:17 Post subject: