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Combine multiple PDFs into one document using Text Edit
Authored by: oldmanMac on Sep 04, '03 04:25:48PM

A couple of notes after pounding on this overnight:

Copying individual pages from preview and pasting into Text Edit (as I read off a newsgroup) produces bitmaps when you print a PDF from Text Edit. Instead, drag and drop your list into a blank Text Edit document.

Dragging and dropping a list of PDFs behaves erratically (ie, random order) if you grab a bunch of items that are being viewed as list. As far as I can tell, this is an indication that list order is broken somehow. Do your dragging and dropping in column view, and everything should work OK. (This drove me nuts until I discovered the cause!)

When you print out your combined PDF, make sure your window is open wide enough so that the whole PDF width is displayed. The right margin is set to the width of the window, and anything not displayed will get cut off when printing to a PDF.

Hope this helps. Merging PDFs is a good reason to move to OSX, and this "old mac" user is glad that I went ahead and made the plunge. Another cool thing is scriptable GUI...



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