Hi,
I think I'm doing something very wrong so I ask for your help /comments. I'd like to create a single PDF out of multiple documents (bitmaps and Open Office files). The bitmaps' size is ~20 MB each.
I start with a document, a screen pops up where I select "wait and collect" (I use the German version, I dunno what it is in English). Then I start to print all the rest until I have appr. 20 documents. Now...what's the proper procedure to print all of this to one pdf? I select "merge" which takes ~ 15 minutes(!) of time which is unacceptable if one finds a mistake and has to do it all over again. I do know pdffactory, for example, and that tool is much faster.
Am I using the wrong option?
I am wondering the same thing...Anyone have an answer?
I am not entirely for certain on this subject, but I will try to answer to the best of my understanding.
The files you are merging together are temporary PDFCreator files, I believe .ps files, sorta. So, these files are considerably larger than the original or final file.
Ex: Word Doc @ 30MB, PDFCreator temp file @ 90MB, Final PDF @ 6MB.
It works the same for .ps files too. So, I tried this once to merge with over 1.25GB... Gigs... of data. Not very fun to do. So, this merging is only really useful for small jobs.
Now, there is a fix for this. It can cause a few problems, but nothing that can't be fixed. What I did for my 136pg pdf is used pdftk - the pdf toolkit - with the Builder GUI. The toolkit is command line and the builder gives a GUI to it. It can be found here:
http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/
Using this, you can merge or split PDF files rather than temp files/.ps files. This helped me because instead of merging 1.25Gigs of data, I merged like 140Megs of data.
A problem that could occur is duplication of embedded fonts. If that matters to you, I believe you can just print the merged PDF again to PDFCreator and create another PDF that will only have one copy of each font embedded.
Hi
I have the same problem... does nobody know how it is possible???
[BLT] Nana La Biloute