Comments on: How to merge pdf files in OSX

By: imge

imge — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:14:48 +0000

Hi, I did merge my pdf files correctly and I’m not a leopard or lion user, just mac osx… Just select all the files you want to merge, right click and open with preview. While in preview, able sidebar and go and click on the little arrow that appears on every pdf file (do the same for all files, just click on em, you will see all the pages).
Finally select all (cmmd+a), click file, click “save all” And voila! it worked for me, hope it’ll work for you too.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 10 May 2012 23:50:12 +0000

Thank you very much for this effort!

By: Jeanine

Jeanine — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:27:48 +0000

awesome help!! Thank you

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:30:25 +0000

What a life saver! I am trying to get rid of paper and my Kodak All in one only scans one page at a time. This

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 07 May 2012 03:42:34 +0000

On top of? Really? All the time I wasted dragging the second file UNDER the first file. Ahhhhh!
Thanks for tanking the time to write this page.

Evan

By: Mary

Mary — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:13:42 +0000

if it’s not working, it’s because what you are trying to merge is not saved as a pdf, but instead as something like jpg. resave each of the files first as a pdf & it should work with the above steps.

By: jebowers87

jebowers87 — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:19:07 +0000

Just a note to everyone, I tried this trick and was running into problems merging…While I was able to merge the PDF’s, I noticed that a few field vaules in one page were overwriting their values to the next page. I fixed this by printing the original pdf file (with editable fields) to just a static document (no editing possible without special software). After that, I was able to merge with no problem. If someone has already explained this, sorry for stepping on toes…

Just my 2 cents…

thanks

By: Hushero

Hushero — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:00:32 +0000

Thank you very much, you saved my day :-)

By: JC

JC — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:07:17 +0000

I had the same problem with dragging sidebar thumbnails to another sidebar and nothing happening. What I discovered to overcome this was to:

1. Have all your PDF’s you want to combine in one folder
2. Highlighting all those PDFs and open them at the same time with Preview.
2. Now you have all the documents in a single sidebar but each one as a separate PDF file.
4. To combine them, drag them all onto a single document and into the desired order.
5. ‘Save As’ to save the document you dragged them all into a single PDF file.

By: Larry B

Larry B — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:57:00 +0000

May have missed something in this long list of comments. However, I’m not needing to drag the pdf on top of existing pages – I’m simply dragging the added pdf from Finder to the sidebar (Preview 4.2) – it shows a red line, drops the pdf in including multiple pages. I do a Save As and it’s fine. Opens in Adobe Reader just fine. Can also delete pages and move them around. I don’t have page number issues so that makes it easier.