Combine multiple PDF files into a single pdf file with combine table of centent using Ghostscript.

Says you have the follow pdf files

./test/fixtures/samples/demo1_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf
./test/fixtures/samples/demo2_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf
./test/fixtures/samples/sub_dir/demo3_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf
./test/fixtures/samples/sub_dir/demo4_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf

Which have the following content:

• File: ./test/fixtures/samples/demo1_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf

• File: ./test/fixtures/samples/demo2_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf

• File: ./test/fixtures/samples/sub_dir/demo3_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf

• File: ./test/fixtures/samples/sub_dir/demo4_xxx.rb.xhtml.pdf

When you run the following command:

gem install pdfs2pdf
cd ./test/fixtures/samples
pdfs2pdf --recursive

Will produce the result like the following

• File: pdfs2pdf_samples.pdf (excepted screenshot)

Ghostscript

• Please follow the instruction here for installation from source.

• Alternatively, for Ubuntu you can try sudo apt-get install ghostscript and under OSX you can use Homebrew.

gem install pdfs2pdf

Usage:
  pdfs2pdf

Options:
  -b, [--base-dir=BASE_DIR]            # Base directory
                                       # Default: . (current directory)
  -r, [--recursive], [--no-recursive]  # Search for files recursively
                                       # Default: true
  -v, [--version], [--no-version]      # Display version information

Combine multiple pdfs into one file with bookmarks

To combine multiple pdfs just try something like

cd ./test/fixtures/samples
pdfs2pdf -r

This will merge all the pdf files from test/fixtures/samples and generate the pdfs2pdf_samples.pdf.

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/agilecreativity/pdfs2pdf/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request