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Combine PDFs using Preview
Authored by: fletcherpenney on Dec 16, '03 11:38:45AM

Perhaps I am missing a step, but when I try this I get a single "pseudo-document" with multiple images. But the images are still treated individually for saving and printing purposes. Therefore, it is useless for joining single page pdfs...

This is consistent with what I remembered the final verdict being regarding Preview from previous posts on this site when this technique was suggested before. As I recall ( and I am too lazy to search through the comments on the previous pdf posts), Mail and TextEdit can be used for combining pdf's, but not Preview.

I am I missing something?

(In case it makes a difference, I am running 10.3.1)



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Combine PDFs using Preview
Authored by: bfr00 on Dec 16, '03 12:27:31PM

Doesn't work for me either. Not with save or save as or export.



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Combine PDFs using Preview
Authored by: seanskye on Dec 16, '03 04:33:54PM

Another doesn't work for me either!

I checked prefs to make certain that there was no "super save as single pdf" option.

Opened directly in Preview.app and tried to save, export, save as, even checked the print preview. You also can not select all the individual files in the drawer to tell it to work as one doc. I must be missing the obvious here, but I can't replicate the behaviour....

10.3.1 and Preview 2.1.0 (v210).

sean



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Combine PDFs using Preview
Authored by: sjk on Dec 16, '03 10:51:52PM

Yep, I've already been up and down Preview trying to find a way to save/print multiple files as a one. I've wanted to do that for conveniently printing a batch of screen captures.



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Combine PDFs using Preview
Authored by: ankank on Jan 31, '11 03:00:15AM

Works fine for me as long as thumbnail view is set. Combine two PDFs. Open each file in preview. Arrange the panes so that you can select all the thumbnails of the pages you want to combine of one file and drag and drop them into the thumbnail pane of the other file (at the end of the thumbnails of you want to combine them serially). Then save file and voilá. Two PDFs combined.



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