mergepdf.groovy

import org.codehaus.groovy.scriptom.*

Scriptom.inApartment {
  def dir = new File("c:/temp")
  def pdfApp = new ActiveXObject('Bullzip.PDFPrinterSettings')
  def wsh = new ActiveXObject('WScript.Shell')
  def wshnw = wsh.createObject("WScript.Network")
  wshnw.setDefaultPrinter(pdfApp.getPrinterName())

  def adobeReader = wsh.RegRead('HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\AcroRd32.exe\\')

  def mergeList = dir.listFiles().findAll { it.canonicalPath ==~ /.*\.pdf$/ }
  if (!mergeList) return

  def first = mergeList[0]
  mergeList.remove(first)

  pdfApp.with {
    setValue("output", "${dir.canonicalPath}/all.pdf")
    setValue("confirmoverwrite", "no")
    setValue("showpdf", "no")
    if (mergeList)
      setValue("mergefile", mergeList.join("|"))
    setValue("mergeposition", "top")
    setValue("showsettings", "never")
    writeSettings(true)
  }
  "${adobeReader} /n /p /h \"${first}\"".execute()
}