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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.
The 'Combine PDF' operation in the Adobe API lets computer programs put many files into one PDF automatically. You can send up to 20 files, and you can even choose which pages from each file to include. This is good for tasks that happen often.
No, if your original files already have printed page numbers, the combined PDF will likely restart the numbering for each new file. To get continuous page numbers across the whole document, you will need to add new page numbers to the combined PDF after you create it. This will overwrite any old page numbers.
It is a good idea to keep your original files for a few days after combining them. This is because you might need to combine them again if there was a mistake in the order, or if you forgot to include a file. It saves time from having to re-create the original documents.
Combining files rarely makes the PDF smaller. Most of the time, the new PDF will be about the same size as all the original files put together, or even a little bigger. If you need a smaller file, you should compress the PDF after you have combined all the files. Acrobat has a 'Compress PDF' tool for this.