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Could someone explain how to merge PDFs into one PDF using Preview? I can't get it...
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Ham Sandwich
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Could someone explain how to merge PDFs into one PDF using Preview? I can't get it to work because when I hit Command-S to save the document, it just saves the first page
Greetings.
Could someone explain how to merge PDFs into one PDF using Preview?
I have 4 PDFs, each being one page.
If I try to merge them all into one of the documents in the sidebar, so that the document contains thumbnails for all four PDFs, then I save (e.g. with Command-S), it doesn't actually save. I tried highlighting all the thumbnails and then doing save, and it doesn't work. Just the original document only gets re-written to file.
I realize that I could select all and do File > Print, and then save that as PDF, but the problem is that each PDF document is a different size, and doing this changes the document sizes to all 8.5" by 11"
I tried following Apple's directions in the Help menu, but it didn't work.
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For me, this stopped working more than a year ago.
It used to work until then, but one day, it just stopped working.
Every since then, I have used a 3rd party app (PDFPen) to do that (and other things).
-t
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Have the sidebar show thumbnails.
You can drag and drop them to rearrange. Drag one ON TOP of another (the cursor will change to a green "+" cursor) to add two PDFs together.
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The "on top" part is key. Otherwise you just add to a list of documents in the sidebar.
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Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
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Ham Sandwich
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
Have the sidebar show thumbnails.
You can drag and drop them to rearrange. Drag one ON TOP of another (the cursor will change to a green "+" cursor) to add two PDFs together.
This worked for me, as long as I saw the "+" bubble and as long as I was dropping the thumbnail of one file absolutely exactly on top of the thumbnail of another in the sidebar.
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Why? He's already got it working.
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Well, I guess the behavior has changed.
It was much more intuitive in the past.
Job well done, Apple, "improving" what wasn't broken.
-t
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