MATLAB: Merging pdf without ghostscript

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Hi all, Is it possible to merge pdfs in matlab without using ghostscript? Thanks!

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Matlab has no built-in pdf handling capabilities and if it had it would likely use ghostscript behind the scene, so you've left with:

finding an alternative to ghostscript. ghostscript is the only open source pdf handling library I know.
write your own pdf handling code using the standard. Good luck with that, you'll be better off with ghostscript.

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MATLAB: How to add custom text to a footer in a generated report

To add custom text to a footer in your report, you can work with the 'DOCXPageFooter' class:

Documentation Page:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.docxpagefooter-class.html

Example of making a footer:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/rptgen/ug/mlreportgen.dom.docxpagefooter-class.html#bu7mkg7-2

When creating a page footer, you can first specify which pages you would like it to appear on (first page only, even pages, odd pages, or all pages). Then, you can append different DOM objects to the footer, such as a page number or a paragraph.

The following code is an adaptation of the example linked above. This code demonstrates how to add a paragraph with custom text to a footer which already includes the page number:

import mlreportgen.dom.*;
d = Document('mydoc','docx');
open(d);
% Create page footer object
myfooter = DOCXPageFooter();
d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters = [myfooter];
% Add page number to footer
pageNum = Page();
append(d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters(1), pageNum);
% Add custom text to footer
txt = Paragraph('My custom text');
txt.HAlign = 'center';
append(d.CurrentPageLayout.PageFooters(1),txt);
% Create several pages.
p = Paragraph('Title page');
append(d,p);
p = Paragraph('Another page');
p.Style = {PageBreakBefore(true)};
append(d,p);
append(d,clone(p));
append(d,clone(p));
close(d);
rptview(d.OutputPath);

MATLAB: 2015b ghostscript not found – ps2pdf multi-page ps to pdf

We stopped shipping Ghostscript with MATLAB because nothing in MATLAB uses it any longer. If you're still using it, you can download it from Artifex and install it. Then you should be able to continue to use it the same way you have been.

I wouldn't think that trying to run the 14b MEX file in a newer version is a good idea, but the MEX file isn't really adding anything here. PS2PDF is a standalone program that comes with the Ghostscript distribution. It's not part of the MEX file that earlier versions of MATLAB used to run the various Ghostscript programs.

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