Quite often there are situations when, for example, to organize documents or ease of reading, it is necessary to combine several PDF files into one. You can glue PDF documents using several simple methods. But when performing some operations, some nuances should be taken into account.
How to glue PDF files into one using Adobe Acrobat Professional?
The most traditional method of combining several files of this format into one document is to use the "native" program Adobe Acrobat, preferably the Professional version. If you try to perform such an operation in a regular "Reader", nothing will work.
You can glue PDF documents using the main file menu of the application, in which you need to select the item for creating a PDF document (Create) and go to the line for combining several files (Combine Files into a Single PDF). In the window that appears, select the necessary objects from below in the format line, you need to install PDF, because by default it is assumed to open all supported formats.
Now you need to select the files. Note that if you select them while holding down the Shift key, the selection will also touch intermediate objects, so you should use the click with the Ctrl key and then click the Add button. After that, the selected files will appear in the special File to Combine area. Here it is worth paying attention to the fact that the order of objects will directly depend on their position when selecting (sorting). To move a document up and down, you need to whiten it with a left click and use the Move Up (up) and Move Down (down) buttons. These buttons can be found in the special area of Arrange Files. In addition to them, there is also a button to delete the selected document (Remove). To view the received order, use the button of the usual preview.
When everything is ready, it remains to click the “OK” button, after which it will be offered to save the received document. In the file type field, the PDF format is indicated, and then the save is simply confirmed.
How to glue 2 PDF files or more with format conversion?
If there is no program above, you can go in a roundabout way. You can glue PDF documents using PDF to JPG and JPG to PDF converters.
First you need to convert the PDF files to JPG images, and then rename the resulting images in the order in which they should follow each other when combining. Now you need to start the image converter in PDF format, add numbered files to the application workspace, specify the location of the final file and start the conversion process.
Using special utilities
The second option for a large number of documents is quite inconvenient. Therefore, to simplify the work, you can use a small free utility called PDF Split-Merge (by the way, it allows you to combine and split files of this format).
In this case, you just need to add the files, observing the desired order and start the conversion process.
You can also glue PDF files using the Foxit Phantom PDF application. Fundamentally, the actions from the previous program are practically no different. Only the names of the main menus and commands differ. But this utility is interesting in that when combining documents, you can set a limit on the size of the created file, and if you want, you can also edit the text, and even replace the fonts.
Online Document Processing
Finally, if the user is too lazy to engage in such transformations, on the Internet you can find many specialized resources like PDF Joiner, on which documents can be combined online. Everything is simple here: you just need to add the files in the order in which they should be in the new document, if necessary, swap the documents, and then activate the start of processing. When the conversion is complete, you just need to download the result to your computer. The limitation is only that you can add no more than 20 objects at a time.