METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MERGING PORTABLE DOCUMENT FORMAT FILES

摘要

A method in the field of printing for merging Portable Document Format documents which increases the merging efficiency of said documents. The method comprises: performing upon all priorities, according to a high-to-low priority sequence based on pre-determined priorities for key word type combination, the following processes until all merging pages and merged pages of the documents to be merged are completely determined: acquiring the key word combination corresponding to the key word type combination in the current priority; executing the following process according to each key word combination that is acquired, until all merging pages and merged pages of the documents to be merged are determined, or until processing of all acquired key word combinations is complete. In the remaining documents to be merged, selected file names include documents to be merged under the current key word combination. When it is judged that the selected documents include merging documents and merged documents, merging pages and merged pages are determined; and said merging and merged pages are then merged.