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Fglenn - 23 Sep 2007 17:51 GMT

I receive batches of similar PDFs from the government (50 to 250 at a time)
that have 2 pages and I need to print only page 1 from each of them. I store
the PDFs in a directory called PDFs.

I can successfully merge both pages of the PDFs into a document called DS2019
using:
<cfset myPath = "c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\PDFs\">
<cfpdf action="MERGE" directory ="#myPath#" destination="#myPath#DS2019.pdf">

Within the <cfpdf> tag I am attempting to use the <cfpdfparam> tag to merge
only page 1:
<cfpdfparam source="#myPath#*.pdf" pages="1">
but the source attribute does not like the global *.pdf value I'm using to
tell it I want all PDFs.

Can anyone provide me a suggestion on how to tell the <cfpdfparam> source
attribute that I want all the PDFs in my PDFs folder?
Is there a better way to produce my merged PDF with page 1 of the batch PDFs?

Thank you...
Glenn

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GArlington - 25 Sep 2007 11:34 GMT

> I receive batches of similar PDFs from the government (50 to 250 at a time)
> that have 2 pages and I need to print only page 1 from each of them. I store
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> Thank you...
> Glenn

>From CF docs:

Merge PDF documents into an output PDF file
<cfpdf
required
action = "merge"
one of the following:
directory = "directory of PDF files to merge"
source = "comma-separated list of PDF source files|absolute or
relative pathname
to a PDF file|PDF document variable|cfdocument variable"
<cfpdfparam ...>
required if directory is specified:
order = "name|time"
one of the following if <cfpdfparam ...> is specified:
name = "PDF document variable name"
destination = "PDF output file pathname"
optional
ascending = "yes|no"
keepBookmark = "yes|no"
overwrite = "yes|no"

pages = "pages to merge in PDF source file"

password = "PDF source file password" stopOnError = "yes|no"
one of the following:
destination = "PDF output file pathname"
name = "PDF document variable name">

Please take a look at "pages" attribute...

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