Comments on: pdfcat — concatenate PDF documents

By: Jeremy W. Sherman

Jeremy W. Sherman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:53:55 +0000

For small jobs, the easiest method I’ve found is:
* Open all PDFs in Preview.
* Ensure the Sidebar is shown.
* Select PDF page thumbnails in one Sidebar.
* Click and drag the selected thumbnails to another Sidebar.
* The selected pages are copied to the drop location within the target Sidebar’s associated document.

This works at least as of Mac OS X 10.5.8; I haven’t tried it with any earlier versions.

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blog.seriot.ch » Blog Archive » Concaténer des fichiers PDF — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:02:13 +0000

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By: Will

Will — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:27:59 +0000

Last time I needed to do this I used the tool pdftk;
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
Maybe overkill but I’m sure I’ll find a use for its other features some day…

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 21:16:29 +0000

I do this all the time in Adobe Acrobat Pro 7, it’s very convenient for assembling multiple scans into PDFs. I love Acrobat because it has a PDF Optimizer routine that does an incredible job reducing fille size, and also has wonderful gadget s to straighten crooked scans and remove stray pixels in backgrounds. I scan all text documents as 300dpi 1-bit, then assemble in Acrobat, and run PDF Optimizer, the resulting files are less than 10% of the size of the original scans. I use Acrobat more than any other single application except Safari.
Of course Acrobat Pro costs money, but I think you get what you pay for.

By: Vincent Noel

Vincent Noel — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:05:32 +0000

There is also Combine PDFs which works very well.

By: Haris Skiadas

Haris Skiadas — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:33:06 +0000

I use PDFLab (http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/) for such things, I find it works wonders. YMMV of course.

In general, for the main pdf/image preview application, I find Preview.app lacking in a dozen differfent ways.

By: Zachery Bir

Zachery Bir — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:31:47 +0000

When I’ve needed this recently, I just created a Pages document with one image per page. Print the resulting document as a PDF.

By: Ashley Clark

Ashley Clark — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:40:40 +0000

I had to concatenate some PDFs a while back and used Automator to make a workflow action that took the selected Finder items and passed them through the Combine PDF Pages action. I saved it as a Finder Workflow action and use it from the Finder’s context menu.

I’m still surprised that this isn’t in Preview though. Maybe I’ll file a bug, I forgot to do that last time…