To open the PDF file in the default PDF reader program on your PC, make sure the “Open PDF in reader” check box is checked. Click “OK” to start creating the PDF file. The file is created and added to the folder you specified and it opens in the default PDF reader, if you selected that option. Split PDF Files. RELATED: Use Your Mac’s Preview App to Merge, Split, Mark Up, and Sign PDFs. You may sometimes want to split a PDF file, extracting some pages from it and creating a new PDF file with them. The PDFSam (PDF split and merge) tool we mention below can do this, but you may already be able to do this with software on your PC. Don't expect an easy-to-use interface like the thumbnail views in Adobe Reader and other commercial software. You merge two PDF files by dragging them into a PDFsam window, which adds them to a list.
Is there a painless way to combine/merge PDF files in Windows? I understand that pdftk will do it on Linux.
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There are quite a few free options, as well as some good commercial ones:
Web-based (Free)
- MergePDF. Merge up to 10 files. Max limit of 5MB/file.
- PDF Hammer. Web-based PDF editor that supports merging of multiple files
- Booklet Creater. Merges files to create a booklet. Rearranges pages to that you can print and fold to create a simple booklet.
- BCL Premium PDF Merge Merge 2 PDF documents. Max 10MB/file. Limit of 20 merges/day
Desktop tools (free)
- PDF Sam. Also known as 'PDF Split & Merge'. FOSS tool for splitting and merging PDFs. Windows & Mac. Console and GUI interfaces. On Windows, the installer by default installs Ad-Aware Security Toolbar, sets Lavasoft SecureSearch as homepage, new tabs, and default search provider.
Swift PDF. Combines multiple images (JPG, GIF, etc.) into a single PDF.
Editor's note, 5/1/2017: Swift PDF was last updated in 2006 and was compatible with Windows 95. The original link is dead and the product appears to no longer be supported. However, it is still downloadable at https://swift-pdf.en.softonic.com/
pdftk. FOSS power tool. Command line only. Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD. Windows GUI versions exist, including a portable version and the official free version.
There are also a lot of commercial tools.
fixer1234pdftk.exe is available for Windows as well. See here: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/#packages and here: http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/pdftk-1.41.exe.zip
Here is an example commandline for pdftk.exe. It merges all PDF files in the current directory into a combined one:
Another one:
Ghostscript can also combine multiple input PDFs (and PostScript files) into one output PDF:
Update suggested by @sunk818
There is a GUI for pdftk named PDFTK Builder. This essentially builds a command line based on your option choices for you and executes:
My own update
Since I originally posted this answer, pdftk has undergone further developments.
- The application's name changed to PDFtk Server (the command line tool is still called
pdftk). - There is now version 2.02 available.
- The developers now offer their own GUI for Windows, called PDFtk Pro.
You can use PDFill PDF Tools to perform lots of manipulations on your PDFs for free.
Use the 'Merge PDF Files' button (button #1) in the screenshot below.
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robTry PDFsam, which comes for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
The basic version is free, I'm pretty sure that the basic version will meet your needs. You will need to have Java installed on your computer to run this program.
slhckI found the best for me: PDF Split and Merge
PDF Split and Merge tool is implemented using the PdfSharp library and is either GUI or command driven.It is useful for automated document creation.It allows bookmarks from the input pdfs to be imported and flexibly embedded in the destination document.
It just merges or splits PDF files, nothing else.
slhckPDF Creator will do the trick -- you can print multiple documents to a single PDF. Relatively painless :)
Also this program named pdfbinder proved to be useful. It has a simple commandline interface for input and uses the same engine as the PDF Split and Merge already mentioned.
This little app I found with a Google search let me merge image files into a single PDF, which it didn't look like some of these options would. It's very limited, but it did the trick for me just now.
I know that you can do this with Adobe Acrobat. I assume that you don't want to pay for this if it's the only use you have. You highlight your PDF files, right-click and select Combine files in Acrobat...:
Ghostscript, available on Linux and Windows, should be able to concatenate them, but it uses complicated command-line functions. You can use CutePDF, which has a free version, but I believe the Professional (paid) version is the only one that will concatenate.
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