#! /bin/sh
#  combines the given ps files into a new ps file
#       the last file (without suffix) will be the outputfile
#  syntax: ps_combine -o <outputfile> <first file.[e]ps> <second file.[e]ps> ...
#   returns outputfile
#       written by Jan-Uwe Ness
#         c Oct 2001

if [ "x$1" == "x-o" ]
   then
  final=$2
  shift 
  shift
fi

LIST="$@"

N=0

for ff in $LIST; do
    let "N = N + 1"
#    echo "$N = $ff"
done

if [ "x$final" == "x" ]
  then
  final=$ff
  if test -e $final
    then
     echo the outputfile $final already exists
     echo please indicate an outputfile with option -o filename
     echo an existing file given with -o will then be overwritten
     exit
  fi
fi

echo Outputfile will be $final

out=`mktemp tempXXXXXX` || exit 1
trap "rm -f $out*" 0 1 2 3 5  
texfile=$out.tex

files=$(ls *.ps)
#echo $files

echo "\documentclass[12pt]{article}" > "$texfile"
echo "\pagestyle{empty}" >> "$texfile"
echo "\textheight 25.5cm" >> "$texfile"
echo "\textwidth 16cm" >> "$texfile"
echo "\voffset -3cm" >> "$texfile"
echo "\hoffset -2cm" >> "$texfile"
echo "\usepackage{graphicx}" >> "$texfile"
echo "\begin{document}" >> "$texfile"

for ff in $LIST; do
if [ ! $ff == $final ]
    then
 echo "\begin{figure}" >> "$texfile"
 echo "\vspace{-2cm}"  >> "$texfile"
 echo " \hspace{-1cm}\includegraphics[height=29cm]{$ff}" >> "$texfile"
 echo "\end{figure}" >> "$texfile"
 echo "\clearpage" >> "$texfile"
 echo ">    including $ff"
fi
done

echo "\end{document}" >> "$texfile"

latex $texfile > "$out.output"
dvips $out.dvi > "$out.output"

mv "$out.ps" $final
echo file $final created!