I have three different marked-up offer letters from hiring managers and HR, and we go into negotiation with the candid…
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 fail if the source files have hidden problems or corrupt structures. Acrobat might silently output only the first file repeated, or the process might hang. To fix this, try re-saving each source file using 'Save As' to refresh its structure. Adding files one by one can also help, or you can use Help > Repair Installation in Acrobat to fix any software issues.
In Acrobat, 'merging PDFs' and 'combining files' refer to the same action. It means taking several separate documents, which can be PDFs or other file types like Word or images, and putting them together into one single PDF document.
No, if your original source documents already have printed page numbers, they will restart with each new document in the combined PDF. To have continuous page numbers across the entire combined document, you will need to add new, continuous page numbers to the PDF after you have finished combining all the files.