John H. Mutchek V » Powershell http://www.mutchek.com/blog works, writings, and creations Wed, 04 Jul 2007 00:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en Merge PDFs with pdftk and MSH http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/28/merge-pdfs-with-pdftk-and-msh/ http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/28/merge-pdfs-with-pdftk-and-msh/#comments Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:44:01 +0000 jmutchek http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/28/merge-pdfs-with-pdftk-and-msh/ 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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]]> http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/28/merge-pdfs-with-pdftk-and-msh/feed/ Download podcasts with MSH (Monad) http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/20/download-podcasts-with-msh-monad/ http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/20/download-podcasts-with-msh-monad/#comments Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:25:25 +0000 jmutchek http://www.mutchek.com/blog/2006/03/20/download-podcasts-with-msh-monad/ 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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