Package com.snowtide.pdf.util

Class MergeUtil

java.lang.Object

com.snowtide.pdf.util.MergeUtil

public class MergeUtil
extends Object

Deprecated.

Merge functionality may be removed in a future PDFxStream release

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:

©2004-2024 Snowtide

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	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.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

mergeDocuments

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

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:

mergeDocuments(File[], OutputStream)

mergeDocuments

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

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.