Usage

pdfjoin is a command line tool, a droplet and a Python library to join several PDF documents into a single one. It will join all files passed as argument into a new file. As a special feature it can operate as a “droplet”.

pdfjoin has three modes of operation:

1. With no output path given: The droplet mode.

   If no output path is passed to pdfjoin, will look for a file matching pdfjoin-*.pdf in the current directory, which has been modified within the last 60 minutes. (More precise, the filename must match the scheme as described in the next paragraph.)q If such a file exists, all documents passed as arguments will be joined to this one.

   If such a file does not exist, it will be created first. The filename will be pdfjoin-yyyddmm-hhmm.pdf with yyyddmm being the current date and hhmm being the current time.

   This allows dropping one file after each other onto the droplet and join them into the same output file – assuming you are not waiting more then 60 Minutes between each drop.

2. With an existing directory name is given as output path

   This case works exactly like the droplet mode, except that the file is searched for and created in the given directory.

3. With any other path given as output path:

   In this case the given path is the filename searched for and created if not existing yet.

Options

General Options

--version

Show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

Show help message and exit

-v, --verbose

Be verbose. Tell about scaling, rotation and number of pages. Can be used more than once to increase the verbosity.

-n, --dry-run

Show what would have been done, but do not generate files.

Defining Output

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

Specify filename or directory to write file to (default: current directory)