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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.
This can happen if there's a problem with the structure of your original source files. Acrobat might struggle to process them correctly. To fix this, try opening each source file and saving it again using 'Save As'. This often refreshes the file's internal data. If that doesn't work, add your files one by one instead of all at once, or use the 'Help > Repair Installation' option in Acrobat.
The 'Combine PDF' operation in the Adobe PDF Services API lets developers programmatically merge multiple PDF documents into a single PDF. It's available as a POST request to a specific endpoint. This means software can automatically combine files without someone manually clicking buttons. It supports combining up to 20 files and even allows specifying page ranges from each input document.
No, if your original documents already have page numbers printed on them, combining them will result in restarts. Each original document's page numbering will begin again from page 1. To have continuous page numbers across the entire combined PDF, you will need to add new page numbers to the merged document after it's created. This will overwrite or appear alongside any existing page numbers.
Combining files rarely makes the PDF smaller. Most of the time, the new combined PDF will be about the same size as all the original files added together, or even a little larger. If you need to reduce the file size after combining, you should use Acrobat's 'Compress PDF' feature. Do this after you have finished combining all your documents.