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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 20:13:28 JST kaia
   using #linux' `convert` to merge several PDFs results in a huge file. the 10 source files are 150KB, the resulting file is 50MB. I'd just like to merge them without making it into images?
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 20:20:16 JST iced depresso

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     @kaia you are looking for pdftk
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     Hernán De Angelis (hdeangelis@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 20:35:16 JST Hernán De Angelis

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     @kaia use pdftk, the PDF toolkit for that

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     Simon John (sej7278@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 20:48:32 JST Simon John

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     • Hernán De Angelis

     @hdeangelis @kaia yes convert makes them into huge bitmaps, and unfortunately is too popular amongst tutorials, pdftk is much better

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     locus (locus@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 04:49:40 JST locus

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     @kaia pdfunite (part of poppler-utils) for a cli method. pdf arranger for gui method
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