Hello,
I’m trying to merge two operations into one pdf with PDF.co. What am I missing here? It only generates a pdf with the last operation as I assume the first gets overwritten.
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Your “merge a pdf” module outputs two bundles, I assume that’s the issue.
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Your merge PDF is generating 2 operations and as a result the second call to optimize is doing 2 operations as well one for each output bundle I assume from the previous merge PDF module.
You can aggregate the array using an array aggregator to combine 2 or more bundles from the module whose data you are collecting to merge into the PDF. That will ensure merge PDF generates just one file and as a result the next module will generate one file for the compress and optimize as well.
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Hello Alex,
Thank you for your reply. I have an aggregator in place and all the correct data shows in the module including the output but for some reason only the first array output is sent through to pdf.co. Very frustrating
Trying to upload txt file but it will not allow me.
How did you modify your pdf.co settings after the aggregator? You’re going to need to use array functions to retrieve the items of the array to access them from the output bundle of the aggregator.
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I’m not sure that pdf.co has that feature…
They are array functions built into Make…
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Thank you. I’m not sure how that would be inputted as far as the set variable. Never used one before… Just learning Make
Yeah that makes sense. It’s a bit of an uphill learning curve. You can use the get() function inside the PDF.co module to retrieve various parts of the array you have aggregated. Check the make help or Make Academy to learn more abou thow to use these.
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Hello Jay,
You can try using the text aggregator tool to combine the URLs into one URL. Then, use this combined URL with PDF.co to convert them into a single PDF file.
If the problem continues, you can add the iterator tool first. This tool will go through all the files and pass them to the text aggregator.
I hope this information is helpful. Thank you!
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