Combine PDF files using SAS

[djrisks]

Hello, I would like to combine two PDF files (which are already stored externally) into one file by using SAS. I've seen a paper on how to achieve this with Proc Groovy, but the paper does not give all the instructions.

Thank you for your help!

Many thanks,

Kriss Harris

[RW9 · Accepted solution]

You would call command line PDF combine:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1524493

Or the very useful PDFtk:

https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Its not a SAS thing to combine PDFs.  I would imagine groovy is calling some Java library to combine PDFs.

[djrisks]

Thank you for this RW9. The PDFtk works well. I wanted to do it via the command line, but I didn't know much about the ADOBE SDK and how to do it that way. Have you done it that way before please?

[RW9]

Never used Adobe SDK, will look one day.  PDFtk is really useful, I use it for extracting bookmark information and updating that.

[djrisks]

Okay, thank you for confirming.

[Jagadishkatam]

Hi Kriss Harris,

could you please try the below code, hope it will work.

ods pdf file=’~path\final.pdf’;

ods pdf(a) file="~path\a.pdf";
ods pdf(a) close;

ods pdf(b) file="~path\b.pdf";
ods pdf(b) close;

ods pdf close;

[djrisks]

Hi Jag,

Thank you for this. My PDF files have already been created, so unfortunately I cannot use this method. 

Many thanks,

Kriss