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Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let me show you how you can merge PDF's using Preview.
I'm using Preview 7 here. I'm going to show you how to merge PDF documents. You can open
up multiple PDF documents, of course, inside of Preview.
Let's open up two together here and what it is actually going to do is in the thumbnails
on the left it is going to show me there are two documents. If you don't see the thumbnails
make sure you turn them on here.
Here is the first document and the second document and it even shows I can reveal all
the pages. This is a one page document and this one has twelve. You can see at the top
it shows two documents, thirteen total pages.
Say I wanted to insert this page from one PDF into this PDF. Well it is as easy as dragging
and dropping. I can drag this down below here and then insert it anywhere into it. So I'm
going to do it right after page two. Now I can see that I have fourteen total pages because
I have just duplicated this one from this document into here. I have this between this
page and this page there. I could have put it anywhere.
Now I can actually drag it somewhere else. So let me drag it all the way to the end of
the document and put it right there as the last page.
Now you've got to watch out because notice there is a line here at the bottom and a blank
space. If I had dragged this a little too far it would actually have created a new document
and not merged this page into the current document. So I want to make sure that I am
doing that. This is a big problem that a lot of people have is that they are inadvertently
putting it too far below and it just creates another document and it is not putting it
in there.
Now the same thing happens if say I were to go into the Finder here and open up the PDF
and then open up this other PDF. They open up in two separate windows. You can certainly
drag and drop from two separate windows rather than from one. You can see it works the same
way. But then a lot of times you say, well I want to put this at the end. So you drag
and drop it and you put it down below here and all that does is move that document into
this window. You can see now there is two documents open. It didn't actually put this
in there. So that is a mistake a lot of people make. You want to make sure that you are putting
it into the document, not adding it as another document to the same window.
You can actually do a lot more than merging. For instance, I can select a page and delete
it by hitting the delete key. Then that is gone from that PDF document. I can actually
drag a page out and create a new document down here below. I'll have to save that document
else it won't get, nothing will happen with it. But it is pretty easy to do.
I can do all sorts of different things. I can select a couple pages from this document,
copy them, and then do File/New from Clipboard and it will actually create a new document
with those pages. So you can take an excerpt from a current PDF document and really quickly
and easily create a new PDF document like this and then save it out. Or even just use
it for printing. Sometimes if you have a long document it is so quick and easy to do that.
You create this quick untitled document, you print, and then you close it up without saving.
It is just easier than trying to figure out how to print the exact pages that you want.
You can even add images; mix images into a PDF. So I'm going to open up this image here.
I'm going to make sure I have the thumbnail there and I can drag it into this PDF document
like that. Now you can see I've got this image page inserted into the PDF.