Merge pdf files

Ignition
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I saw a post about combining two pdf files into one.
Somme people recommended to use the PDFtk Server.

I looked for the information but I can't use the PDFtk Server.

I'am trying to do it but I can't find the solution.

Somme one have an example script to gather several pdf pages into one? .

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Why?

I use the command line tool from PDFtk Free. I don't have examples from within Ignition, but a typical command line would look like this:

pdftk A=SourceFile1.pdf B=SourceFile2.pdf cat A B output OutputFile.pdf

The cat verb accepts many variations to select page ranges, odd or even sets, and rotations.

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Thank you . Yes it work good into windows. Now I'am trying to do it from ignition perspective

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It is not. PDFtk is a legitimate command line tool whose open-source version is quite useful. It absolutely can be used with java's ProcessBuilder to manipulate PDF files on a gateway.

Edit: Ah, someone else already clipped the spam.

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How can I install this toolkit into Ignition environment?

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Install PDFtk into your gateway, outside Ignition.

Use java's ProcessBuilder to execute that tool in the background on the gateway, capturing the stdout carrying the output PDF bytes.

I don't see any example on the forum, sorry. It's not simple enough to just whip one up for you.