Merge Multiple PDFs in Preview
You don’t need Adobe Acrobat to merge multiple PDFs into one document — just Apple’s Preview application. Here’s how:
Open one of the PDFs in Preview, and display the sidebar to reveal its thumbnails (click the Sidebar button on the Preview toolbar or press Command-Shift-D).
Then just drag a PDF file (single or multiple page, of any dimensions), onto the sidebar at the location you want its pages to appear in the first PDF file. When you save that PDF file, it will include the other(s).
Jeff Gamet is a contributing editor for Design Tools Monthly, the executive summary of graphic design news. He is also the morning editor and reviews editor for The Mac Observer and iPodObserver.com, and contributing writer for Layers Magazine and Photoshop User. He writes the InBrief column for InDesign Magazine, and is the author of “The Designer’s Guide to Mac OS X,” from Peachpit Press
When Jeff isn’t writing about the graphic design world, he’s talking about it on the Design Tools Weekly podcast with co-host Jay Nelson. He also talks about Apple and the Mac world every week on The Mac Observer’s Apple Weekly Report.
Jeff studies, tests and reviews new software and technologies for the Macintosh community as well as the design and print industries. He is a former Pre-press specialist, and has nearly 25 years experience with computer technology. Jeff trains, lectures and consults on techniques for more efficiently using Mac OS X in creative environments throughout the country.
In the rare moments when he can get away from his MacBook Pro, Jeff spends his time climbing and biking in the Colorado mountains.