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2.4.7 FTP Scheduler - Merge Files Option

Nathan Virtue
posted this on October 05, 2011 09:29 am

When this option is selected, all files found in the FTP directory will be merged into 1 before processing. Files will be sorted by name, so a logical naming convention must be used. Remember that file sorting sorts by alpha numeric, so if your document contains more than 9 pages and your files are named such as:
  • document-page-1.pdf
  • document-page-2.pdf
  • ...
  • document-page-10.pdf
the resulting order will be wrong:
  • document-page-1.pdf
  • document-page-10.pdf
  • document-page-2.pdf
  • ...
Therefore, always add zeros in front of your page numbers to ensure proper ordering. For example:
  • document-page-001.pdf
  • document-page-002.pdf
  • document-page-003.pdf
  • ...
  • document-page-010.pdf
  • document-page-011.pdf
The page numbers can exist anywhere within the file name so long as there exists the necessary trailing zeros.