John H. Mutchek V


Merge PDFs with pdftk and MSH

Posted in Powershell, Computing, Geek, Code by jmutchek on the March 28th, 2006

When scanning a stack of multi-page documents to PDF, I find it easier to scan each page individually, then combine them in a post-processing step. Here’s a simple Monad script that merges multiple PDFs into a single multi-page document.
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Download podcasts with MSH (Monad)

Posted in Powershell, Computing, Geek, Code by jmutchek on the March 20th, 2006

One of my (many) resolutions for 2006 is to adopt the new Microsoft Shell (MSH) into my daily routine. For me, the first steps down that road are language fundamentals (thank you Andy Oakley) and teaching myself to identify tasks that would be better done from the shell. I’ll post bits of scripts as I start using them day to day.

This first script downloads RSS enclosures to a local directory for future consumption. I don’t have a portable MP3 player, so I burn podcasts to a CD-RW and listen to them on my commute. As such, I don’t have a need for a podcast aggregator with many bells or whistles. Instead, I have a scheduled task on my Media Center PC that runs this script each night.

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