Prepare the travel packet for [traveler=Laura]'s trip to [city=Boston]: merge flight itinerary, hotel confirmation, an…
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 can sometimes fail if the source files have old or damaged internal structures. This might cause Acrobat to hang or only show the first file repeated. To prevent this, try re-saving each source file using 'Save As' to refresh its structure before combining. Adding files one by one can also help identify a problematic document.
No, combining documents rarely makes the file size smaller. In fact, it might even get slightly larger because Acrobat needs to include all parts of the different files. If you need a smaller file, you should compress the PDF after you have finished combining all your documents. This will reduce the overall size.
Combining files takes completely separate documents (like a Word file and an Excel file) and puts them together into one new PDF document. Merging pages, on the other hand, usually refers to adding pages from one existing PDF into another existing PDF, or rearranging pages within a single PDF. Combining creates a single, new PDF from multiple sources, while merging often involves manipulating pages within or between existing PDFs.