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title="NEW --- - pdfunite of a single file should not fail"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72720">72720</a>
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>pdfunite of a single file should not fail
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>minor
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>marc.donner@gmail.com
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Component</th>
<td>general
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<pre>I have a large document (circa 1,000 pages) that I have used pdfseparate to
break into individual pages and that I am then using pdfunite to combine into
useful bundles of pages. Some of the bundles are comprised of a single page.
I manage the bundle creation process using a set of data objects, so the basic
inner loop goes something like this:
pdfunite ${SOURCE_LIST} ${DESTINATION_FILE}
If ${SOURCE_LIST} happens to contain a single PDF file, then pdfunite whines
and refuses to work, so I've had to special case these items and make the
command be cp instead of pdfunite.
I argue that for clean closure pdfunite source.pdf dest.pdf should copy
source.pdf to dest.pdf
If the poppler community agrees that this is a valid proposal, I'd be happy to
submit a change list to implement the fix.</pre>
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