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Open Adobe Acrobat.
Go to the Tools tab and select Combine Files.
Click Add Files and select the PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and image files you want to combine.
Best practiceYou can select multiple files at once by holding down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (macOS) while clicking.
Arrange the files in your desired order by dragging and dropping them within the Combine Files window.
Best practiceReorder files before combining to control the sequence of pages in the final PDF.
If you want to include only certain pages from a file, click the file's thumbnail and select the specific pages.
Click Combine to merge all selected files into a single PDF.
Save the new combined PDF to your desired location.
You can drag and drop files of different types directly into the Combine Files window to add them quickly.
This runs in the Acrobat app - there is no separate API for this task.
This can happen if the original source files have old or broken internal structures. Acrobat might struggle to process them correctly, leading to errors. To fix this, try opening each original file and using 'Save As' to create a fresh copy, then combine the new copies. This often refreshes the file's structure and helps Acrobat combine them properly.
The 'Combine PDF' operation in the Adobe API is a tool for developers. It allows computer programs to automatically merge up to 20 separate files into one PDF document. You can also specify which pages from each file to include, making it very flexible for automated workflows.
No, if your original documents already have printed page numbers, combining them will likely result in restarted page numbering for each new section. For example, if you combine two documents, both starting at page 1, your combined PDF will have two sets of 'page 1'. You will need to add continuous page numbers after combining to have a single, flowing sequence.
Combining files rarely makes the PDF file size smaller. In most cases, the combined PDF will be roughly the sum of the sizes of the original files, or even slightly larger. If you need a smaller file, you should compress the PDF *after* you have combined all the documents into one. This is a separate step to reduce file size.