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This link seems to have the answer:

Merging many tex-documents together?

But what does he mean by "Create a new document as a frame"?
Also whatever it is how do you create it in TexnNicCenter?

Baz

documentclassarticle
 usepackagepdfpages

begindocument
includepdf[pages=-]TransferPanel.pdf



 includepdf[pages=-]rv-Nss.pdf
 enddocument

This was my attempt to follow the instructions.

The resulting pdf does contain the two papers in their entirety, this is 90% what I want, all that remains is that I would like the page numbers to be consecutive?

I guess this means I have to:

1.) Remove the page numbers from the orginal papers
2.) Then add page numbers to this new document?

It's the second part that I'm not sure of?

This is not a simple question as it could be. The hard part are the hyperlinks and the page numbers.

Aims of my solution

I had to generate proceedings for LNI and had following aims:

• Automatic generation of
  
  
  • running heads (including page numbers, authors, title of the paper)
  
  
  • table of contents
  
  
  • PDF bookmarks
  
  
  • index
  
  
  • 
    proceedings.bib listing all papers including page numbers
  
  


• Working hyperlinks
  
  
  • from the TOC to the papers
  
  
  • within the papers
  
  
  • from the index to the papers
  
  

The solution

I came up with my own solution heavily relying on

• 
  koma-script for the layout (TOC, separating pages, ...),


• 
  pdfpages to include the papers,


• 
  pax to enable hyperlinks


• 
  biblatex and xindy to generate the index

The solution is more than 400 lines of LaTeX, which come with other scripts.
The complete result is available at https://gi-ev.github.io/LNI-proceedings/.

Considered alternatives

When designing this solution to typeset complete proceedings, several alternatives were investigated.
Nearly all possible alternatives are listed at http://www.ctan.org/topic/confproc.
In the following, evaluated alternatives are listed and discussed.

confproc

confproc seems to the most suitable alternative.
Compared with this approach, it has following drawbacks:

• The PDFs of the papers do not take a proper heading (page numbers, editor).


• When clicking on a link in one included PDF, the linked PDF is opened instead of jumping to the link.


• Indexing of authors has to be done by manually.

combine

The combine class combines the sources of different LaTeX together.
Since there might be conflicting packages, we wanted to include each PDF on its own.
It seems to be more easy to typeset each paper for itself (LaTeX, Word) and then to combine the resulting PDFs.

proc

proc is a very basic class based on the article class.
No update since 1995.