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Merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document

Former Member — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:49:25 GMT

Hi,

How to merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document. Without using any 3rd party tools, please suggest on this.

Thanks & Regards
Murali Papana.

Re: Merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document

dirk_wittenberg — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:10:59 GMT

Honest answer? I don't see a chance to do this without 3rd party tools.

Or do you know the inner structure of a PDF-document?

In this case you could convert the pdfs into xstring and delete the start-of-pdf-bytes / end-of-pdf-bytes ( or what ever is there to mark beginning and end of a document ), and then concatenate the xtrings into one and store this again as pdf-file.

- But IMHO that's theory .

Is there really no chance to use tools?

Regards,

Dirk

Re: Merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document

Clemenss — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 16:35:15 GMT

Hi murali,

really sad you don't have any search engine installed at your site

Otherwise you might have found http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/404e4dc1-a79c-2d10-a7b5-9a266dfed9cb?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&48846663289763

Merge PDF files in ABAP

Regards

Clemens

Re: Merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document

Former Member — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:04:53 GMT

Hi,

Well, if you want to join some PDF files which are already available, you should use what Clemens has suggested(Hoping you have authority to run OS commands).

If you are having say some PDF's downloaded from spools, you can try joining the OTF or ALI format to create a combined PDF.

As Dirk had said, I dont think you will be able to figure out the starting and ending sequence of a PDF and combine them afterwards unless you have some expertise in that area.

Let us know exactly what you are looking for.

Thanks,

Shambu

Re: Merge multiple pdf documents into one pdf document

former_member213851 — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:14:17 GMT

Hi Murali,

Please refer below link:

http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/62ae7fcd-0b01-0010-3e9d-a54f26944450?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true