How to merge pdf files with preview in Leopard
Posted 1 year, 2 months ago at 5:13 pm. 18 comments
Leopard has the ability to edit pdf files, move pages around, and even and merge pdf files together. Here is how to merge two or more pdf files together into one. 1. Open the first pdf file in preview.
2. Now select Sidebar from the View menu, this will make a thumbnail sidebar appear.
3. You can now drag the second pdf file, or a group of pdf files into this sidebar window, and it will add them to your pdf document as additional pages.
The pdf now has 2 pages!
That is brilliant! I used to use a program called Combine PDFs, but it is much better built into the system.
thanks! perfect explanation
This is awesome and so simple. I knew Leopard had something like this up it’s sleeve, I just never imagined it’d be so easy. I was able to drag multiple PDF files in and I just closed and saved with no hassle at all.
Thanks you´ve just saved my day !
Cool! Thanks very much.
This is really cool – spent a while finding software to do this, was even considering paying, but there it was already on my Mac!
One slight problem though – it seems to massively increase the size of the file. I added a file of 104KB to one of 105KB and it ended up being 4.7MB! Yes MEGA!
perfect!
thank you so much for the hint!
but yeah mine got pretty big, too!
is there a chance of resizing it?
Thanks! Amazingly simple.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can finally do what I’ve always wanted to do! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Thanks much!
Thanks a lot! This is an example of the reason for more and more people becoming Mac users.
you can merge pdf files using ghostscript, it is fast and easy, read more here: http://www.csnotes.net/?p=96
I find that it won’t save the document wilth all the new pages. It just saves the first page.
Excellent! THanks for this posting. Solved a problem for us… !
This was fabulous, easy and quick! Thanks for the pointer!
Life Saver! Why is this information not more easily accessible on the net, so many google searches for how to combine pdfs, but only after a lot of digging did I find this resource. And I was going to buy acrobat, not now!
Awesome, cheers for the tip!
Nice one!