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Harkonnen

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Registered: 2013-03-24

Posts: 19

Missing pdfjoin

I have recently updated texlive-core to version 2020.55416-1, and I find that it is missing /usr/bin/pdfjoin.

I have tried pacman -F pdfjoin, but it is returning no results.

I have checked the texlive documentation and pdfjoin appears to be still part of the suite.

So I guess my question is, is this a bug? Or what is the proposed alternative?

Thanks in advance!

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: Missing pdfjoin

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfjoin

Checked pdfjam and found this :
https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam#wrappers

texlive-core does include /usr/bin/pdfjam , maybe you can use it directly ?

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Harkonnen

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Registered: 2013-03-24

Posts: 19

Re: Missing pdfjoin

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfjoin

Checked pdfjam and found this :
https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam#wrappers

texlive-core does include /usr/bin/pdfjam , maybe you can use it directly ?

Aah, I see. The wrappers have been removed from the pdfjam main distro. Thanks for the reply!

xanb

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Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 418

Re: Missing pdfjoin

https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdfjoin

Checked pdfjam and found this :
https://github.com/DavidFirth/pdfjam#wrappers

texlive-core does include /usr/bin/pdfjam , maybe you can use it directly ?

Aah, I see. The wrappers have been removed from the pdfjam main distro. Thanks for the reply!

How do you solve that?
Can you give me the input I have to put in console?

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progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,190

Re: Missing pdfjoin

If you read the second link, then you will find that the wrappers have been archived in a repository called pdfjam-extras. Go there, open the scripts and see which parameters are used.

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xanb

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Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 418

Re: Missing pdfjoin

If you read the second link, then you will find that the wrappers have been archived in a repository called pdfjam-extras. Go there, open the scripts and see which parameters are used.

Thanks. I see that pdfjam does not include now these scripts. But how can install pdfjam-extras in arch? Where I should copy the scripts? I can't see any aur package.

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martinc2

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Registered: 2011-09-23

Posts: 60

Re: Missing pdfjoin

Depending on your use case, you may find that pdfunite (part of the poppler package) is a suitable substitute for pdfjoin.

Trilby

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Re: Missing pdfjoin

Those "wrappers" were pretty silly and didn't do much of anything.  pdfjam will readily accomplish the same thing that pdfjoin did.  Just use pdfjam.  If you really really just want to call it pdfjoin:

alias pdfjoin='pdfjam --fitpaper true --rotateoversize true --suffix joined'

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xanb

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Registered: 2012-07-24

Posts: 418

Re: Missing pdfjoin

Thanks, Trilby

Those "wrappers" were pretty silly and didn't do much of anything.  pdfjam will readily accomplish the same thing that pdfjoin did.  Just use pdfjam.  If you really really just want to call it pdfjoin:

alias pdfjoin='pdfjam --fitpaper true --rotateoversize true --suffix joined'

@Harkonnen, please mark this thread as solved.

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