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24th-Jul-2008 12:45 pm
I found this review request recently:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456331

Rahul tries to push pdfmerge into Fedora, but seems that he simply unfamiliar with mighty power of Ghostscript :), because those, who have read something about gs, already knows that to merge pdf-files in one is easiest task for this application:

gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf -f file1.pdf file2.pdf ... fileN.pdf


In this way I merged hundreds (or even thousands) of scanned pages of many different magazines in one (so-called pirated content, of course - I don't want to hurt the forests of our Planet by bying magazines/newspapers/etc, made from paper, obsoleted technology from 3500 BC, according to Wikipedia).
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24th-Jul-2008 12:20 pm
[info]bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org
Sure.

And I hate those guys who packaged KDE when Gnome is already there and much more powerful... -_-

Can't we have more than one app doing the same job in Fedora ?
24th-Jul-2008 12:25 pm
[info]bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org
And I didn't even see that Kevin Kofler explained why pdfmerge was actually a *better* solution than gs.

So let me rephrase my previous comment:
"Can't we include an app in Fedora because there's already one doing the same job in a worse way ?"
24th-Jul-2008 12:43 pm
[info]peter_lemenkov
> pdfmerge was actually a *better* solution than gs.

Nope. Pdfmerge does use gs, so it can't be better :)
24th-Jul-2008 01:31 pm
[info]bochecha.id.fedoraproject.org
Well looks like I didn't understand Kevin's answer in BZ correctly.

Probably for the same reason that you used: I'm not a native english speaker :D
24th-Jul-2008 12:49 pm
[info]peter_lemenkov
> Can't we have more than one app doing the same job in Fedora ?

Sure we can. But we should learn more about alternatives - that's why I posted this blog-entry.

BTW don't think of me as of guy, who aggressively against pdfmerge inclusion. I don't have any objections to push it into Fedora (seems that this misunderstanding is due to fact, that English is not my native language).
25th-Jul-2008 02:11 am - Aware
[info]sundaram.id.fedoraproject.org
Hi,

Yes, I am aware of the command line you are referring to. pdfmerge is just a simple perl script to do pretty much the same thing.
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