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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 'Preserve Bookmarks' option is very useful when you combine PDFs. It makes sure that each original file you add becomes a top-level bookmark in the new combined PDF. This means you can easily navigate through your new document, jumping quickly from one original file's content to another, just by clicking the bookmarks.
If your original files already had page numbers printed on them, combining them will likely result in restarted page numbers for each new original file. For example, if File A ends on page 10 and File B starts on page 1, the combined document will have File B's page 1 right after File A's page 10. To fix this, you will need to add new, continuous page numbers to the combined PDF after you merge it.
Combining PDF files rarely makes the file size smaller. This is because Acrobat is putting all the data from multiple files into one new file. It doesn't automatically compress the content during the combine process. If you need a smaller file size after combining, you should use Acrobat's 'Optimize PDF' or 'Compress PDF' feature as a separate step after the combining is complete.