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I have several hundred encapulated postscript files, and I want to merge them all into one big PDF. How can I do this?

Dan
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  • Imagemagick's `convert` claims to do this. – ott-- Aug 12 '13 at 19:46
  • @ott--: Feel free to add that as an answer. – Dan Aug 12 '13 at 19:48
  • I would be wary of using anything from ImageMagick to append vectorized images, such as the `convert +/- append` command. ImageMagick developers even [warn against](http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#ps) using it on vectorized images (unless you don't mind rasterization, of course). – madams Mar 23 '15 at 17:36
  • @madams I converted your answer to a comment since it wasn't actually answering the question. I saw in another comment that you're working on a solution. Please feel free to post it as a new answer and welcome to the site! – terdon Mar 23 '15 at 18:25

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Use a command like:

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sOutputFile=sin_800.pdf *.eps
Dan
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    For those like me who didn't know what `gs` is, it's a command that calls the [GhostScript](http://www.ma.utexas.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?gs+1) _PostScript and PDF language interpreter and pre-viewer_. –  Aug 12 '13 at 20:28
  • This worked great, but it added them as individual pages. How might you create a single page document from `n` images? – ryanjdillon Aug 30 '17 at 13:14
  • @ryanjdillon: You might want to ask that as a separate question. – Dan Aug 30 '17 at 16:28