concatPDF

Simply concat PDF files based on their file names and configuration file.

The order is first based on the globbing in the config.ini file and second on the numerical order of the file names.

File names not starting with a number are ignored.

Valid names are:

• 1.0_my_nr_1pdf.pdf
• 4.pdf
• 3.13_the_third.PDF
• 1.1-i-will-be-second.pdf

Concatenation order

Leading in determining the concatenation order is the config.ini file.

Example config.ini

    [DIR]
    build = ./build
    source = ./source

    [ORDER]
    1 = 1*
    2 = appendix/*
    3 = *

    [OUTPUT]
    filename = output

1. The configuration file above will first concatenate all pdf files matching the '1' glob in the source/ directory.
2. Secondly all files in the source/appendix/ directory are appended to the pdf.
3. And finally the remaining files in the source/ directory are added.

Note that only pdf files will be added. So * can be safely used.

Installation

$ pip install git+https://github.com/ritchie46/concatPDF.git

Initialise a project

Go to you project directory and run:

$ concatPDF

To start the build run make.py from your projects root directory.