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Open Adobe Acrobat.
Go to File > Combine Files.
Click Add Files and select the PDF files you want to merge.
Arrange the files in your desired order by dragging and dropping them within the list.
Click Combine to merge the selected files into a single PDF document.
Save the new combined PDF to your preferred location.
You can preview and reorder files before combining to ensure the final PDF is in the correct sequence.
This runs in the Acrobat app - there is no separate API for this task.
Combining files rarely makes the file size smaller because it adds all the data from each document into one. It does not remove information. If your combined PDF is too large, you should compress it after combining. This will help reduce the file size without losing important content.
No, if your original documents already have page numbers, the combined PDF will likely restart the page numbering for each new document. To have continuous page numbers across the entire combined PDF, you will need to add new page numbers after the combining process is finished. This will overwrite any old page numbers.
In Adobe Acrobat, 'merging PDFs' and 'combining PDFs' mean the same thing. Both terms refer to the process of taking multiple separate PDF files and putting them together into one single PDF document. There is no functional difference between the two terms when using Acrobat.
It is a good idea to keep your original files for a few days after combining them. This is because if you find a mistake or need to change something in the combined PDF, you can easily re-combine the original files. This saves you time compared to trying to separate the combined PDF or fix it directly.