Is it possible to join pdf files with MATLAB?

Is it possible to join pdf outputs (plots or pictures/images) into a single pdf file with MATLAB?

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

I don't think so. Another way you have developed it on your own. Why do you use some online or small pdf merger tools for doing that? like foxit reader, pdf creator or Adobe latest version itself.

[Franco Dave]

Yes, you can do it using free merge pdf tool which does the job simply :)

[Nickolas Blank]

type:

publish('my_first_script.m','pdf')

into your command window, of course using the title of your script in the my first script section and then it will merge any plots you have made with that script and that script into one single file.

[Jennifer Toney]

how do you do that with 2 scritp files?

Answer 1

[Rik]

I don't know an easy way with Matlab, but you can trivially solve this with pdfLaTeX. You can even build this file with Matlab.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-]{name_of_pdf_file1.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=-]{name_of_pdf_file2.pdf}
\end{document}

(the pages=- switch means that it will include all pages, not just the first)

Save this as a .tex file, install MikTeX (or any other package manager) and run pdflatex your_file_name.tex in your command prompt (or with system from Matlab)

Answer 2

[Jan]

What are the inputs? Existing PDF files or a set of figures? For the latter, you can print to a PS file with the '-append' flag at first and use the free GhostScript to convert the PS to a PDF file. This is done e.g. in the famous export_fig also.

[Mr M.]

raster images, but I want to control the pdf image representation and compression

Answer 3

[Nikhil Sapre]

Release 2021b now supports exporting to a multipage pdf using the exportgraphics function

Answer 4

[Abhishek Shahi]

if you intend you merge several pdf files into one, use my code pdfmerge.