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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 files rarely makes the overall size smaller because it just puts documents together without changing their internal data. If you need a smaller file, you should compress the combined PDF after you finish merging. Compression removes unneeded data and reduces image quality slightly to make the file size smaller.
If your original files already had page numbers, combining them will often result in page numbering that restarts with each new document. To fix this, you should add continuous page numbers to the combined PDF after the merging process is complete. Acrobat has tools to add new page numbers across the entire document, overriding the original ones and creating a single, unbroken sequence.
Merging PDFs and combining PDFs are the same thing. Both terms mean taking multiple separate PDF documents and joining them together into one single PDF file. Acrobat uses the term 'Combine files' for this feature.
Yes, you can combine many different types of files into one PDF using Acrobat's 'Combine files' feature. This includes Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, image files (like JPGs or PNGs), web pages, and existing PDF documents. Acrobat will convert each file type into a PDF page before combining them.