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.   pdfmerge0.png       2. Now select Sidebar from the View menu, this will make a thumbnail sidebar appear.  pdfmerge2.png   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.   pdfmerge3.png      The pdf now has 2 pages!  pdfmerge4.png  

18 Replies

  1. Glen Apr 29th 2008

    That is brilliant! I used to use a program called Combine PDFs, but it is much better built into the system.

  2. wieske May 6th 2008

    thanks! perfect explanation

  3. Chris Jul 28th 2008

    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.

  4. Luffemann Oct 17th 2008

    Thanks you´ve just saved my day !

  5. Rob Dec 2nd 2008

    Cool! Thanks very much.

  6. Moz Dec 30th 2008

    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!

  7. toni Feb 5th 2009

    perfect!
    thank you so much for the hint!
    but yeah mine got pretty big, too!
    is there a chance of resizing it?

  8. Sara Mar 1st 2009

    Thanks! Amazingly simple.

  9. CW Mar 4th 2009

    THANK YOU SO MUCH! I can finally do what I’ve always wanted to do! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

  10. Lidwien Apr 7th 2009

    Thanks much!

  11. Fabio Apr 8th 2009

    Thanks a lot! This is an example of the reason for more and more people becoming Mac users.

  12. adela Apr 9th 2009

    you can merge pdf files using ghostscript, it is fast and easy, read more here: http://www.csnotes.net/?p=96

  13. JT Apr 24th 2009

    I find that it won’t save the document wilth all the new pages. It just saves the first page.

  14. Bob Apr 24th 2009

    Excellent! THanks for this posting. Solved a problem for us… !

  15. Josh Apr 30th 2009

    This was fabulous, easy and quick! Thanks for the pointer!

  16. Loren May 24th 2009

    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!

  17. James Jun 8th 2009

    Awesome, cheers for the tip!

  18. Stephen Summers Jun 12th 2009

    Nice one!


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