I just noticed that you said some of the filenames have spaces, so use 
the -0 option, which should take care of that (man xargs for more info).

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> Give this a try:
>
> cat /path/to/filenames_file.xt |xargs pdftk
>   

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