Combining two PDFs into a Single Page

[Dr. Zathras]

I need to automate the creation of a PDF where the top quarter contains FMP-derived data unique to each record, and the bottom three-quarters contain standard text with PDF form fields. It would be a simple process to just export the record as a PDF but for the need to include the PDF form fields.

I decided to split the PDF into two: the top quarter with the FMP-derived data and text is produced by exporting the record to PDF, while the bottom quarter with the PDF form fields was produced in Acrobat and stored in a SuperContainer. Using AppleScript and System Events it's easy to combine the two individual PDFs with the shell script joinPDF - it gives a single PDF alright, but it's two pages. The individual PDFs are sufficiently short that they would fit on a single 8.5 x 11 sheet, but joinPDF insists on making them two short pages in the joined PDF output.

Does anybody know of a command line tool to join two small PDFs into a single page? If not, is there any way to export a record to PDF and generate PDF form fields in the resulting output?

Thanks.

Colin

[bcooney]

Anyone? This is something I'm hoping to solve also.