Concatenating PDF pages?
Okay, so now that we have ubiquitous PDF throughout MacOS X, this *should* be simple, but I can't figure out how to do it.
I have several PDF documents, all of a page apiece. I would like to print them out on two-sided paper, which means that they need to be sent to the printer as a single print job. (Manually flipping pages back into the paper tray is a problem - networked departmental printer in constant use.)
I can use Preview in 10.2.2 to pull pages out of a document and save as separate files, but I can't find a way to concatenate them into one document.
Anyone have a quick, easy, cheap way to do this?
I have several PDF documents, all of a page apiece. I would like to print them out on two-sided paper, which means that they need to be sent to the printer as a single print job. (Manually flipping pages back into the paper tray is a problem - networked departmental printer in constant use.)
I can use Preview in 10.2.2 to pull pages out of a document and save as separate files, but I can't find a way to concatenate them into one document.
Anyone have a quick, easy, cheap way to do this?
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Anyway, I don't know the answer to your question, but you can export from Preview, so you could save them in another format and then put them together in another program, and then either print them out from there or save them back as pdf.
<a href="http://www.gdykes.com/index.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.gdykes.com/index.shtml</a>
Click on the link to download the full versions. Not sure if the program works in OS 9 or OS X, haven't tried it.
Okay, so it looks like my options are either to manually paste up the PDFs in something like OmniGraffle, or purchase a commercial product. (BTW, Stone Design's PStill for $69 does EPS/PS -> PDF conversion, concatenation of documents, etc, etc and the kitchen sink.)
BTW, in Preview you can Select All (Cmd-A), then Copy (Cmd-C), and get what *appears* to be an actual PDF data chunklet to paste. At least, when I paste it in OmniGraffle, it seems to be wonderfully resolution independent. So it looks like all the pieces are there... select, copy, paste... we just need an app that takes the pastes and puts them in order.
Come on, this can't be that hard...
Edit: Just downloaded it and tried it... works in Classic only, it sort of worked... one of the pages in a pdf I tried to add didn't quite generate properly though.
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Ah well. Dragging them into OmniGraffle works, and I can edit/composite/etc to my heart's content.
Still seems silly.
I have been in a similar situation.
Another one I've looked for is a way to edit the document information (creator, etc.) and to edit the security (set a password, disable various kinds of copy to clipboard).
If all your PDFs are single page, you can import them into iPhoto, create an album just for them, order them anyway you like and them print them. Setting the print output option to full page of course.
If you have some multipage PDFs and access to Photoshop 7, their is a nifty option if you follow File-Automate-Multi Page PDF to PSD... Open your multipage PDF, save a multiple PSD's then import into iPhoto just like PDFs.
Hope this helps.
I have several PDF documents, all of a page apiece. I would like to print them out on two-sided paper, which means that they need to be sent to the printer as a single print job.
neutrino23:
Another one I've looked for is a way to edit the document information (creator, etc.) and to edit the security (set a password, disable various kinds of copy to clipboard).
PDFEnhancer can do all of this:
<a href="http://www.pdfsages.com/enhancer.html" target="_blank">http://www.pdfsages.com/enhancer.html</a>
there's a 10 or 15 day demo so if all you need is a 1-time deal...
the current version doesn't support puma, just jaguar.
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