Fayd
Diamond Member
Okay, so..
i need to find a way to compile 1500ish pdf's into 300 pdf's. the 1500ish pdf's are arranged in order in which they need to be compiled already, being numbered xxx-y.pdf, where xxx is the site number and y is the numbered order in which it has to be compiled.
cover sheets have been named xxx.pdf... i will need to rename them to xxx-0.pdf.
but anyways, i've been searching online for some batch files to do this. what i've found will compile everything in a folder..and that's not exactly what i need.
the site numbers have been already done properly. the only issue is.. i dont know how to change what variables get passed to the pdf writer, so i dont know how to get it to do 1 group at a time. and also, i dont know how to get it to move onto the second group.
what i have been doing (mind you, this is a pentium 2 with 128mb of ram i'm working on) was using acrobat 2000, opening the cover sheet, and individually appending the files with each of the file's assosciated files. (for every cover sheet, there is 6 assosciated files) so, as you can imagine, that was taking forever.
while i was searching, i've learned of a faster way, using pdfblender, and creating the pdf's that way. while it's much faster than acrobat (allows me to merge by group), it's still doing it by hand, and it's frustrating doing something so mundane by hand when i know it can be automated.
i need to find a way to compile 1500ish pdf's into 300 pdf's. the 1500ish pdf's are arranged in order in which they need to be compiled already, being numbered xxx-y.pdf, where xxx is the site number and y is the numbered order in which it has to be compiled.
cover sheets have been named xxx.pdf... i will need to rename them to xxx-0.pdf.
but anyways, i've been searching online for some batch files to do this. what i've found will compile everything in a folder..and that's not exactly what i need.
the site numbers have been already done properly. the only issue is.. i dont know how to change what variables get passed to the pdf writer, so i dont know how to get it to do 1 group at a time. and also, i dont know how to get it to move onto the second group.
what i have been doing (mind you, this is a pentium 2 with 128mb of ram i'm working on) was using acrobat 2000, opening the cover sheet, and individually appending the files with each of the file's assosciated files. (for every cover sheet, there is 6 assosciated files) so, as you can imagine, that was taking forever.
while i was searching, i've learned of a faster way, using pdfblender, and creating the pdf's that way. while it's much faster than acrobat (allows me to merge by group), it's still doing it by hand, and it's frustrating doing something so mundane by hand when i know it can be automated.
