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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 PDFs rarely makes the file smaller because it adds all the data from each file together. It does not compress the files during the combine process. If your combined PDF is too big, you should compress it after you have finished combining all the files.
No, if your original documents already had printed page numbers, combining them will often result in page numbers starting over for each new document. To fix this, you will need to add new, continuous page numbers to the combined PDF after you have finished merging all the files.
In Adobe Acrobat, 'merging' and 'combining' PDFs mean the same thing. Both terms refer to putting multiple separate PDF files or other document types into one single PDF document. There is no functional difference between these two words in Acrobat.