This is a short recipe describing the process of creating one large multi-page pdf file from a bunch of InkScape SVG filles. I use it to compile presentations where each page is initially created as svg. The whole procedure also helps to reduce the pdf file size and fasten the pdf rendering.
UPD[20_oct_2012]: You can also take a look on svgslides. I haven’t tried to use it but it is worth to be mentioned.
Some data on versions of used products to be consistent:
- InkScape
$ inkscape --version Inkscape 0.48.1 r9760 (Mar 22 2011)
- PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam)
pdfsam 1.1.4
- Adobe Reader
$ acroread -version 9.5.1
The basic steps look like the following:
- Make all the presentation slides in InkScape
- Filenames should be nicely written (1-2-3…), which assumes nice ordering
- Run the script to convert all svg-files into pdf
- Run pdfsam, include all the needed files
*In case of pdfsam fail scan the correspondend .svg file and look for extremely complex figures – probably, you have to remove them - Compile all pdfs into one big file
- Open it with Abode Reader
- Print it into the .ps file
- Run “ps2pdf” and create new large pdf file
* i haven’t tried to use ps2pdf13 or ps2pdf14 - Open it and enjoy the speed and the quality
(c) mak