Can we give two files as input while using JasperStarter - jasper-reports

I am using JasperStarter to create pdf from several jrprint files and then print it using JasperStarter functtions.
I want to create one single pdf file with all the .jrprint files.
If I give command like:
jasperstarter pr a.jprint b.jprint -f pdf -o rep
It does not recognise the files after the first input file.
Can we create one single output file with many input jasper/jrprint files?
Please help.
Thanks,
Oshin

Looking at the documentation, this is not possible:
The command process (pr)
The command process is for processing a report.
In direct comparison to the command for compiling:
The command compile (cp)
The command compile is for compiling one report or all reports in a directory.

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Exiftool: Want to output to one text file using -w command

I'm currently trying to use exiftool on Windows command prompt to read meta data from multiple files, then output to a single text file.
The exact command I last tried looked like this:
exiftool.exe -FileName -GPSPosition -CreateDate -d "%m:%d:%Y %H:%M:%S" -c "%d° %d' %.2f"\" -charset UTF-8 -ext jpg -w _Coordinate_Date.txt S:\Nick\Test\
When I run this, I get 7 individual text files with the content for one corresponding file in each of them. However, I simply want to output all of it to one single text file. Any help is greatly appreciated
The -w (textout) option can only be used to write multiple files. It is not meant to be used to output to a single file. As per the docs on -w:
It is not possible to specify a simple filename as an argument -- creating a single output file from multiple source files is typically done by shell redirection
Which is what you're doing with the >> ./output.txt part of your command. The -w _Coordinate_Date.txt isn't doing anything and I would think throw an Invalid TAG name: "w _Coordinate_Date.txt" error if quoted together like that as it gets treated as a single arugment. The -w option requires two arguments, the -w and either an extension or a format string.
I actually figured it out, if you wrap the entire -w _Coordinate_Date.txt command in quotations and append it to a file, you can throw all of the output into one text file.
i.e. "-w _Coordinate_Date.txt >> ./output.txt"

ffmpeg concat command not reading input file correctly

I am trying to concatenate two video files using ffmpeg, and I am receiving an error.
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt -c copy concat.mp4
And the error output I receive is....
[concat # 0x7ff922000000] Line 1: unknown keyword '43.mp4'
list.txt: Invalid data found when processing input
It looks like that the file names in the list have to be specially formatted to look like:
file '/path/to/file1.wav'
with a word file included. I spent a lot of time trying to guess why ffmpeg encountered an error trying to read the file names. It didn't matter if they were in the list or in the command line. So only after I utilized a command
for f in *.wav; do echo "file '$f'" >> mylist.txt; done
to make list from ffmpeg's manual I had success. The only difference was an additional word file.
Here you can read it yourself: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Concatenate#demuxer

LibreOffice Command Line Convert CSV to DBF

I am working on a workflow where I need to be able to batch convert CSV files into DBF files. The data in the CSV files can all be output as TEXT fields and then saved as a DBF. I have tried to get any output possible using the command line in both Mac OS and Windows 7. While I was a little more successful in Windows, I was not able to get any conversion.
"C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 5\program\scalc.exe" --convert-to dbf --
infilter="csv:44,34,76,1,1/2/2/2/3/2/4/2/5/2/6/2/7/2/8/2/9/2/10/2/11/2/12/2/13/2/14/2/15/2/16/2/17/2/18/2/19/2/20/2/21/2/22/2/23/2/24/2/25/2/26/2/27/2/28/2/29/2/30/2/31/2/32/2
/33/2/34/2/35/2/36/2/37/2/38/2/39/2/40/2/41/2/42/2/43/2/44/2/45/2/46/2/47/2/48/2/49/2/50/2/51/2/52/2/53/2/54/2/55/2/56/2/57/2/58/2/59/2/60/2/61/2/62/2/63/2/64/2/65/2/66/2/67/2
/68/2/69/2/70/2/71/2,0,false,false" C:\Users\jdavidson\Desktop\DBFCONVERT\*.csv --outdir C:\Users\jdavidson\desktop\complete
So, I needed to have an --infilter on the command line to be able to do the conversion, but now it will only process 1 file and not batch file when using *.csv So, my next hurdle is to get over that.
The below helps to explain --infilters in more detail:
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Spreadsheets/Filter_Options#Filter_Options_for_Lotus.2C_dBase_and_DIF_Filters
Any easier way to find the filter sequence you need is by following the below listed steps:
Open the CSV Manually using LibreOffice and Specify Every Detail in the import Wizard
Run the below macro and it will show you the filter options in an input box, so you can copy the string in to your own code
Sub showFilterOptions
Dim args(),i%
args() = thisComponent.getArgs
for i = 0 to uBound(Args())
if args(i).Name = "FilterOptions" then inputbox "","",args(i).value
next
End Sub
Credit to code: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=44&t=14018
The parameters need to be reversed. From https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2641/convert-to-command-line-parameter/:
soffice --headless --convert-to <TargetFileExtension>:<NameOfFilter> file_to_convert.xxx
Using the old windows command prompt:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 5\program\scalc.exe" --headless --convert-to dbf C:\Users\jdavidson\Desktop\DBFCONVERT\test.csv
This will create test.dbf in the current directory, which is perhaps C:\Users\jdavidson or, if running as administrator, C:\Windows\system32. To print the working directory, enter pwd, and then dir to see the file.
In powershell, add "& " in front to execute LibreOffice. Then enter gci or ls to see the file.
Be sure that a LibreOffice process is not already running in the background.
I was able to get this to work using the below code:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 5\program\scalc.exe" --convert-to DBF --infilter="csv:44,34,76,1,1/2/2/2/3/2/4/2/5/2/6/2/7/2/8/2/9/2/10/2/11/2/12/2/13/2/14/2/15/2/16/2/17/2/18/2/19/2/20/2/21/2/22/2/23/2/24/2/25/2/26/2/27/2/28/2/29/2/30/2/31/2/32/2/33/2/34/2/35/2/36/2/37/2/38/2/39/2/40/2/41/2/42/2/43/2/44/2/45/2/46/2/47/2/48/2/49/2/50/2/51/2/52/2/53/2/54/2/55/2/56/2/57/2/58/2/59/2/60/2/61/2/62/2/63/2/64/2/65/2/66/2/67/2/68/2/69/2/70/2/71/2/72/2/73/2/74/2/75/2/76/2/77/2/78/2/79/2/80/2/81/2/82/2/83/2/84/2/85/2/86/2/87/2/88/2/89/2/90/2/91/2/92/2/93/2/94/2/95/2/96/2/97/2/98/2/99/2/100/2/101/2/102/2/103/2/104/2/105/2/106/2/107/2/108/2/109/2/110/2/111/2/112/2/113/2/114/2/115/2/116/2/117/2/118/2/119/2/120/2/121/2/122/2/123/2/124/2/125/2/126/2/127/2/128/2/129/2/130/2/131/2/132/2/133/2/134/2/135/2/136/2,0,false,false" C:\Users\jdavidson\Desktop\DBFCONVERT\57826001_JQSAMPLE.csv --outdir C:\Users\jdavidson\desktop\complete
Please note, that I needed to use DBF and include an --infilter parameter field
There are two websites in my original posting that shows helpful scripts and infilter information to help other users

PDFtk: Merge PDF Problems

I am using PDFtk (Version 2.02, UNIX) for merging PDF and facing below problems in the output PDF:
Initial View of the PDF is changed (should open with Bookmarks Panel and Page)
Bookmarks doesn’t point to the exact linked section as in the separate PDFs (shows fit page of the section)
Original metadata is lost (should retain first PDF's metadata)
Please suggest any workaround for the above points.
Regards,
Umesh
It's a little late to answer, but I came across this question while looking for a solution to the same problem. After taking a look at the man of pdftk I found a solution and I made a little script:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# pdfcat
array=( $# )
len=${#array[#]}
merged=${array[$len-1]}
pdf2merge=${array[#]:0:$len-1}
pdftk $1 dump_data output metadata
pdftk $pdf2merge cat output $merged
pdftk $merged update_info metadata output out
mv out $merged
rm metadata
exiftool $merged
The script save the metadata of the first PDF file (first argument) and write it to a file called metadata. Then it uses the cat command of pdftk to merge all the files (the output file is the last argument). Finally it loads metadata's content to the metadata of the resulting file before erasing metadata. The last line uses exiftoolto print the metadata of the resulting file in order to check if everything went well.
You can save this script to your home/username/bin directory, make it executable with:
$ chmod u+x scriptname
and then you can use it to merge files with the following syntax:
$ scriptname 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf output.pdf
The resulting output.pdf will have the same metadata as the original 1.pdf file.

Why do I get an error with fopen when using matlab's mcc?

Setup:
Windows 7 Enterprise.
Matlab 7.10.0 (R2010a).
mcc compiler: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express.
What's happening:
My project runs fine when running it through Matlab, but when trying to run the .exe through the command prompt after using mcc to compile, the command prompt generates an error.
The mcc command I issue is:
mcc -m -v STARTUP1.m -o EXE_REDUC
The error I receive in the command prompt is:
??? Error using ==> textscan
Invalid file identifier. Use fopen to generate a valid file identifier.
I have a file called LoadXLS.m that loads and reads a .csv file using:
fid = fopen(file,'r');
temp_data = textscan(fid,...args...);
And then I process temp_data.
The csv file I'm trying to load is called spec.csv. It is located two directories down from where I have STARTUP1.m stored. The location of STARTUP1.m is also the place that the mcc generated files are stored to. I have used the pathtool to "Add with subfolders" this location, but am aware that those locations are not transferred to mbuild when compiling.
What I've Tried:
I have gone in and added print statements to print the value of fid to make sure it is valid. When I run it in Matlab, it has a valid value, however when I run in the command prompt it always returns an invalid value of -1.
I have removed all addpath() calls, I have tried adding the STARTUP1.m directory to the mcc ctf archive using:
mcc -m -v -a 'C:\Users\...path...\STARTUP1.m_location' STARTUP1.m -o EXE_REDUC;
However when I do this, I get a different error when running in the command prompt:
Cannot open CTF archive file
'C:\...path...\AppData\Local\Temp\mathworks_tmp_7532_28296'
or
'C:\...path...\AppData\Local\Temp\mathworks_tmp_7532_28296.zip'
??? Undefined function or variable 'matlabrc'.
To fix this, I've tried adding the pragma
%#function matlabrc
to the top of STARTUP1.m to try and enforce its inclusion, but had no success.
I also copied the spec.csv file to a new directory in the ctfroot and changed
fid = fopen(...)
to:
[tempFile, message] = fopen(fullfile(ctfroot, 'Added Config Files', ad.spec_file));
The message is:
message is: No such file or directory
Objective:
Rearranging file locations is a sufficient workaround while the exectuable only runs on my computer, however the idea is to take this standalone and distribute it to multiple people on many different computers. I would like to be able to have a top folder with a startup file and within this folder, have as many subfolders as the package requires. The startup file should be able to access all subfolders and files within them as necessary.
I read something about the exectuable actually running from a "secret location" on the machine here: http://matlab.wikia.com/wiki/FAQ
I would just like to be able to group one entire folder tree with all its files into a package containing the executable and be able to run it anywhere.
More info:
When I put the spec.csv file in the same directory as STARUTP1.m, it finds it fine using mcc without the -a 'path' option and using the following in the LoadXLS.m file:
[tempFile, message] = fopen(ad.spec_file,'r');
This project contains GUIs, generates PDFs, generates plots, and also creates a zip directory.
Thank you in advance.