I have a document that I’m running through the datamapper/template to create a .pdf. I use some data off of that report to look up in an external system to find 2 additional .pdf’s that exist in an external directory.
Is there a way that I can print all 3 in one shot, or do I need to have print actions for each one? I want to “merge” them into one, but I don’t want to create a temp directory and copy them over, merge, etc if I can absolutely help it. Thanks, Rick
Hey Rick,
I know we’ve already addressed this issue but just for anyone else reading:
In order to accomplish this you’re going to have to store your PDFs in a folder before they are merged.
Thankfully, once your willing to do that, using the Merge PDF plugin becomes quite simple.
If you don’t want your temporary folder to exist outside of your process then you can create and delete it through scripts within your process.
Hi, Stephen,
I don’t know if this would apply in the same way but I’m trying to set up a process where several letters are merged through the same template and each letter would have a copy of the PDF following it, and Workflow would finally create one PDF (or postscript print job) at the very end of the process.
Ideally, it would also be able to identify if the PDF is an odd number of pages and stick a blank page at the end of it if so.
Is there any way to modify the Merge PDF plugin or its process in order to make it more dynamic in this way? I can’t see that there are many options available for this one but I’m not familiar with the Merge PDF process at all.
Thanks,
Lisa
The Merge PDF plugin would not be able to accomplish all the above on it’s own.
The first half of your process, creating the individual documents/PDFs and adding the blank page in the case of an odd-numbered output for the document set, would have to be done using the other Workflow plugins.
The second half, merging the PDFs, would be accomplished with the Merge PDF plugin.
