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LaTeX Cookbook

You're reading from   LaTeX Cookbook Over 90 hands-on recipes for quickly preparing LaTeX documents to solve various challenging tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395148
Length 378 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Stefan Kottwitz Stefan Kottwitz
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Variety of Document Types FREE CHAPTER 2. Tuning the Text 3. Adjusting Fonts 4. Working with Images 5. Beautiful Designs 6. Designing Tables 7. Contents, Indexes, and Bibliographies 8. Getting the Most out of the PDF 9. Creating Graphics 10. Advanced Mathematics 11. Science and Technology 12. Getting Support on the Internet Index

Combining PDF files


Combining the source code of two LaTeX documents can be pretty hard, especially if they are based on different classes. However, combining their PDF output is pretty easy.

How to do it...

We will use the pdfpages package.

You can test it with the flyer example from Chapter 1, The Variety of Document Types, together with the form example from the current chapter. Let's get going:

  1. Open a document and choose any class:

    \documentclass{article}
  2. Load the pdfpages package:

    \usepackage{pdfpages}
  3. Begin the document:

    \begin{document}
  4. Include the first PDF file by using the command \includepdf. It takes the page range as an option. Use a dash (-) for the whole page range:

    \includepdf[pages=-]{flyer}
  5. Include the second PDF file:

    \includepdf[pages=-]{form}
  6. End the document:

    \end{document}
  7. Compile once, and look at the newly generated file, which contains both the flyer and the form.

How it works...

The pdfpages package is primarily used for including PDF files in a LaTeX document, completely or partially...

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