[R] append to PDF file

jim holtman jholtman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 27 00:00:56 CET 2011


There is the 'pdftk' (PDF tool kit) that you will find on the web that
will do the job.  I have used it to both combine and split out the
pages in the PDF file.

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Ken <vicvoncastle at gmail.com> wrote:
> PDF files contain information at the end of them and so you cannot append without altering the file (universally true for PDF). Perhaps pdf() your plots and use external tools to convert the PDFs to .ps then re-merge. Might not be the best way, but an effective one.
>     Ken Hutchison
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2554 BE, at 5:38 PM, Christof Kluß <ckluss at email.uni-kiel.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> is there a way to append a plot as PDF to an existing PDF file?
>> savePlot seems not to have this possibility.
>>
>> Christof
>>
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