PDF rewriter: concatinate/merge pdfs

I read this well written article: http://cqblueprints.com/xwiki/bin/view/CQ+FAQ/How+can+I+configure+the+PDF+rewriter
and was able to edit the file here: /libs/wcm/core/content/pdf/page2fo.xsl to convert my .html file to .pdf on the fly. But I have front and back cover pages which were created in InDesign and saved as .pdf files. I need to do this:
front.pdf + <myFileReWrite>.pdf + back.pdf    =>   <myFileReWrite>.pdf
front.pdf and back.pdf are uploaded to my digital asset and currently sit at:
   /content/dam/<someFolder>/front.pdf
   /content/dam/<someFolder>/back.pdf
Is there a way in CQ to merge these pdf files on the fly?
Thanks.

I don't think you can do that with page2fo.xls as this is not suppose to take existing pdf to combine it with one that is generated, so best is to generate the pdf as usually and then combine on the fly with pdfbox for example (http://java.dzone.com/news/merging-pdf%E2%80%99s-with-pdfbox).
You can probably intercept or overlay the existing mechanism of the rewritter to add your code as the rewritter is based on pipeline mechanism (http://sling.apache.org/site/rewriting-the-output-through-pipelines.html).

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Please find below the sql stmts. below(example). Am using Oracle 10.2.0.1
create table t1 as select * from all_objects where rownum<10000;
create table t2 as select * from t1 where rownum<10000-200;
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where T1.OBJECT_ID IN (SELECT t2.object_id from t2);Explan for above update stmt.
| Id | Operation                    | Name         | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | UPDATE STATEMENT             |              | 9139 |   383K|    37   (9)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 | UPDATE                      | T1           |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS               |              | 9139 |   383K|    37   (9)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL         | T1           | 9138 |   267K|    35   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | T2_OBJID_IND |     1 |    13 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| T2           |     1 |    30 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
|* 6 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | T2_OBJID_IND |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
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   6 - access("T2"."OBJECT_ID"=:B1)I wanted to eliminate the corellated update , So i wrote using MERGE as below
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USING T1
ON (t1.object_id=t2.object_id)
WHEN MATCHED THEN update
SET T2.OBJECT_NAME=UPPER(T1.OBJECT_NAME);Explan for above MERGE stmt.
| Id | Operation            | Name | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | MERGE STATEMENT      |      | 9139 |   303K|       |   201    (2)| 00:00:03 |
|   1 | MERGE               | T2   |       |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW               |      |       |       |       |            |          |
|* 3 |    HASH JOIN         |      | 9139 | 2391K| 1256K|   201   (2)| 00:00:03 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T1   | 9138 | 1142K|       |    35   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T2   | 9671 | 1322K|       |    34   (3)| 00:00:01 |
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   3 - access("T1"."OBJECT_ID"="T2"."OBJECT_ID")Cost is 201 , but for the corellated update the cost is 37.
Any idea , how should i re-write the MERGE stmt.?
Edited by: kumar on Jun 16, 2011 4:41 PM

First "cost" is just a number and you should not compare or tune to get the best "cost" in an execution plan.
What counts ist elapsed time => IO, CPU...
In 11g the "cost" for the merge is better (and also the CPU time is far off to be close to the truth!)
9799 rows updated
78ms elapsed
Plan hash value: 580992724
| Id | Operation                    | Name         | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | UPDATE STATEMENT             |              | 9641 |   404K| 28964 (34)| 00:05:48 |
|   1 | UPDATE                      | T1           |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   NESTED LOOPS               |              | 9641 |   404K|    41   (3)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |    TABLE ACCESS FULL         | T1           | 10866 |   318K|    40   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 4 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | T2_OBJID_IND |     1 |    13 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |   TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID| T2           |     1 |    30 |     2   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|* 6 |    INDEX UNIQUE SCAN         | T2_OBJID_IND |     1 |       |     1   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   4 - access("T1"."OBJECT_ID"="T2"."OBJECT_ID")
   6 - access("T2"."OBJECT_ID"=:B1)
Note
   - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)
commited
16ms elapsed
9799 rows merged
125ms elapsed
Plan hash value: 2009158753
| Id | Operation            | Name | Rows | Bytes |TempSpc| Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | MERGE STATEMENT      |      | 9641 |   320K|       |   251   (1)| 00:00:04 |
|   1 | MERGE               | T2   |       |       |       |            |          |
|   2 |   VIEW               |      |       |       |       |            |          |
|* 3 |    HASH JOIN         |      | 9641 | 3088K| 1720K|   251   (1)| 00:00:04 |
|   4 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T2   | 9640 | 1600K|       |    39   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   5 |     TABLE ACCESS FULL| T1   | 10866 | 1676K|       |    40   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   3 - access("T1"."OBJECT_ID"="T2"."OBJECT_ID")
Note
   - dynamic sampling used for this statement (level=2)In your example, the elapsed time (thanks for the it!) is 78ms for the update and 125ms for the MERGE. (ORACLE 11g on and old PC) .
So "should you rewrite" the MERGE? No idea how. I assume you want to change from UPDATE to MERGE and see if it's worth?
Here it's not. But, your example just uses 2MB of data. And the difference from my point view is not MERGE or UPDATE it's NL against HASH join with that tiny amount of data.
So generally I use MERGE because of speed and because I have more control over the query. For updating 2MB of data, it's not worth it. For updating GBytes the stuff I worked on it was faster (and better to control).

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--=====
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--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
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--=====
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on recolle(l, d)
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on parle_anglais()
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--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
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