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Subject: Re: Export to PDF
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 12:00:09 -0700
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On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Dale Erwin wrote:

> On 6/27/2012 6:18 AM, Shan Zhu wrote:
>> You can try to merge the 3 OOo files first, then select menu item =
File ->
>> Export as PDF to generate one PDF file.
>> To merge the 3 files, if they are .odt file (or any other format can =
be
>> edited in Writer), you can follow the steps below:
>> 1. Create a new file in Writer.
>> 2. Select menu Insert->Section... .
>> 3. In "Insert Section" dialog, click "Link" checkbox to make it =
checked,
>> then the "File name" editbox will be enabled.
>> 4. Click the button beside "File name" editbox, then select one file =
you
>> want to merged in your file system, click "Insert" button.
>> The first file will be inserted to current file.
>> 5. Repeat step2-4 to insert other 2 files.
>> Then you can use File -> Export as PDF to gernerate PDF in one file.
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>> If your files are .odp, copy all slides into one file would be okay.
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>> Hope that I did not misunderstand your requirement.
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> I think you understood it correctly.  The problem with merging the =
files is that I seem always to lose some of the formatting, including =
page numbering options, and have to then spend hours of cosmetic editing =
(It's 249 pages).  The only reason they are in 3 different files is to =
accommodate the page numbering.  One file has no page numbers, one file =
has lower-case roman numerals and one has regular arabic numerals.
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> The reason I have not put them all into one file and then done all the =
work necessary to get the page numbers right, is that I collaborated =
with another author on this work and the other author uses MS Office and =
some things just don't translate properly between the two.
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> I have a pdf utility program that, using a virtual printer, will =
create pdf files and save them and merge them, but this program does not =
allow me to embed the fonts the way OOo Writer's Export PDF does.
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> There is an open-source pdf utility that will merge pdf files.  It is =
called PDF Architect, but unfortunately it is still under development =
and in it's current state will not handle files this big.  I was able to =
merge the two smaller files and the embedded fonts did seem to remain =
intact, so this will be a great help... some day.

You might try Apache PDFBox. It has a merger utility.

http://pdfbox.apache.org/commandlineutilities/PDFMerger.html

Regards,
Dave


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