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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 is a way for computer programs to automatically merge up to 20 PDF files into one. You can also specify which pages from each file to include, making it very flexible for automated tasks.
No, if your original files already have page numbers printed on them, combining them will usually result in the page numbers restarting with each new file. To fix this, you will need to add new, continuous page numbers to the combined PDF after you merge it.
Combining files rarely makes the PDF smaller because it simply puts existing documents together. It does not compress them. If you need a smaller file size after combining, you should use the 'Compress PDF' feature in Acrobat after the combine process is finished.
In Adobe Acrobat, 'combining files' and 'merging files' refer to the same process. Both terms mean taking multiple separate documents and putting them together to create one single PDF file. The tool is typically called 'Combine Files'.