com.snowtide.pdf.util

Class MergeUtil

java.lang.Object

com.snowtide.pdf.util.MergeUtil

Deprecated.

Merge functionality may be removed in a future PDFxStream release

public class MergeUtil
extends Object

A PDF file merge utility.

This utility supports merging any number of PDF files into a single PDF document. Metadata, annotations, bookmarks, and form data that might be found in the given source PDF files are not transferred to the merged PDF file.

Since:

2.0

Version:

©2004-2014 Snowtide

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(String[] args) Deprecated. Command-line usage of this class may be moved or removed in future PDFxStream releases.
static void	mergeDocuments(File[] pdfFiles, File destFile) Deprecated. Merges a series of PDF files into a single PDF document, and writes the merged document data to the given file path.
static void	mergeDocuments(File[] pdfFiles, OutputStream destStream) Deprecated. Merges a series of PDF files into a single PDF document, and writes the merged document data to the given OutputStream.

Method Detail

mergeDocuments

public static void mergeDocuments(File[] pdfFiles,
                                  File destFile)

Deprecated.

Merges a series of PDF files into a single PDF document, and writes the merged document data to the given file path.

Parameters:

pdfFiles - an array of File references to the PDF files to be merged, in the order their content should appear in the resulting merged PDF document

destFile - a File reference where the merged PDF document is written

Throws:

IOException - thrown if an error occurs while merging the given list of PDF files

See Also:

MergeUtil.mergeDocuments(File[], OutputStream)

mergeDocuments

public static void mergeDocuments(File[] pdfFiles,
                                  OutputStream destStream)

Deprecated.

Merges a series of PDF files into a single PDF document, and writes the merged document data to the given OutputStream.

Parameters:

pdfFiles - an array of File references to the PDF files to be merged, in the order their content should appear in the resulting merged PDF document

destStream - an OutputStream to which the merged PDF document data is written

Throws:

IOException - thrown if an error occurs while merging the given list of PDF files

main

public static void main(String[] args)

Deprecated. Command-line usage of this class may be moved or removed in future PDFxStream releases.

Command-line interface to PDF merge functionality.

Usage:

java -cp PDFxStream.jar com.snowtide.pdf.util.MergeUtil [src_pdf1] [src_pdf2] ... [src_pdfN] [dest_path]

Any number of paths to source PDF documents may be passed as arguments to this utility; the last argument provided is assumed to be the desired destination path of the merged PDF file

Example:

java -cp PDFxStream.jar com.snowtide.pdf.util.MergeUtil ~/folder/report1.pdf ~/index.pdf result.pdf

This will merge the PDF files 'report1.pdf' and 'index.pdf', in that order, and write the result to 'result.pdf' in the current directory.