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There are also other tools to be used to merge multiple PDFs under Linux.

There is pdfunite (part of poppler) Linux package and pdfjam part of pdfpages (on debian there is separate pdfjam package).

Here are some comparison between the (pdfunite, pdfjam and pdftk) in speed, created file-size, support of PDF hyperlinks etc.:

Comparison

  pdfunite pdfjam pdftk
Configuration No configuration options. Lots of options. See pdfjam --help. Lots of options. See pdftk --help.
Speed 0.200s 1.297s 0.293s
File Size 718 KiB 743 KiB 774 KiB
Hyperlinks Internal hyperlinks broken Gone OK
Page Format Original format is preserved. All pages are converted to the same format. Original format is preserved.

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Merge (convert) multiple PDF files into one single PDF – Generate one pdf from many on Linux / Windows and Mac

If you need to reduce generated PDF file size with GS the common way is with:
 

gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf


Merge (convert) multiple PDF files into one single PDF – Generate one pdf from many on Linux / Windows and Mac

Its also possible to merge PDF files by using simply Ghostscript (useful for older Linux releases and UNIX – Sun OS / Solaris / HP-UX etc.)

gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged-file.pdf file1-to-merge.pdf file2-to-merge.pdf file3-to-merge.pdf


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