Combine PDFs for Free using LaTeX (Combine/Split/Reorder)

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Published on June 10, 2020 12:00:19 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcrwfhgJmxQ

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Sometimes you need to quickly glue some PDF files together. This is fairly simple to do using LaTeX and some simple markdown.

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Documentation for pdfpages: https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages
Download for MiKTeX: https://miktex.org/download
Download for TexStudio: https://www.texstudio.org/

Using the pdfpackages LaTeX plugin you can combine files...
\includepdf[pages=-]{cover}
\includepdf[pages=-]{doc3}

Selectively combine files...
\includepdf[pages={1,3,5}]{doc1}
\includepdf[pages={2,3}]{doc2}

Merge files...
\includepdf[pages={1}]{doc1}
\includepdf[pages={1}]{doc2}
\includepdf[pages={2}]{doc1}
\includepdf[pages={2}]{doc2}
\includepdf[pages={3}]{doc1}
\includepdf[pages={3}]{doc2}
\includepdf[pages={4-5}]{doc1}

And carefully craft new files from existing ones...
\includepdf[pages={1,4,37-47}]{arttextbook}

Along with many other things that can't all fit in this one video.

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