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#HOW TO COMBINE PDF FILES MAC AND SAVE HOW TO#
#HOW TO COMBINE PDF FILES MAC AND SAVE MAC OS X#
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It’s probably hidden for you, so the easiest way to get there is:

You want to move the file to the ~/Library/Services folder.

#HOW TO COMBINE PDF FILES MAC AND SAVE DOWNLOAD#

To use it, download the file to your computer and double-click it to Unzip it. If you don’t want to go through the hassle of setting this all up, you are welcome to use mine. Mac PDF Combinedīest of all, since I went through this trouble to set it up as a Service, going forward whenever I need to combine PDFs, I just have to right-click on them. I now have a PDF called Combined.pdf that contains all the selected PDFs. It will think for a moment and then pop up a box where you can give the new PDF a name. If all went well, you should see Combine PDFs (or whatever you called your Service) in the list. Choose the Services menu near the bottom. Let’s try it.įind a group of PDFs on your Mac, highlight them, and right-click. This means that if you right-click a group of PDFs in the Finder, you can combine them right from there. Go to File > Save and give your new service a name. Here is what those last steps look like: Combine PDFs Save The ServiceĪlright! You’re done! Here’s the entire rule (click to see it bigger): In the Variable window at the bottom of your screen, find your containerPath variable. Next, also in Files & Folders, drag Move Finder Items under the last step. Then hit the Options button and check Show this action when the workflow runs. In the Rename Finder Items box, change the dropdown to Name Single Item. It will pop up a message asking you if you want to preserve an extra copy.

Find Rename Finder Items and drag it under the last step. Next, in Library on the right, choose Files & Folders. Find Combine PDF Pages and drag it under the last step. Now in Library on the right, choose PDFs. Hit that and check Ignore this action’s input. Right under the Variable dropdown there is an Options button. In the Variable dropdown, choose originalPDFs. In Library -> Utilities, drag Get Value of Variable to the main window under our last step. In the Variable dropdown, choose New Variable… and give your new variable a name of containerPath.įirst, we want to get the list of PDFs that we had saved back in the first step.

Now in the Utilities section of the Library, find our old friend Set Value of Variable and (you guessed it) drag it into the main window under our last step. (Basically that is going through the PDFs that you are splitting and copying the folders that they are stored in.) Repeat with itemNum from 1 to count of inputĬopy POSIX path of (container of (item itemNum of input)) to end of pathList In the Run AppleScript window, paste in this code: Drag it to the main window under our last step. Still in the Utilities section of the Library on the left, find Run AppleScript. Note: if you’re an Automator expert and know a better way to do this, please leave a comment! I could prompt the user to choose a path, but I wanted to make it automatic so we have to get a bit geeky. It doesn’t make it easy to save the resulting PDF to the same folder as the original. We are doing this step because of a weird way Automator works. Here’s what the first rule looks like so far. In the Variable dropdown, choose New variable… and call it originalPDFs. Now in the Library section on the left, click on Utilities and then find Set Value of Variable. I haven’t tested it in other applications. Automator Choose Service Set The Variable For The Original PDFsĪt the top of the window at the right, change the Service receives selected dropdown to PDF files. In the window that pops up, highlight Service and then hit Choose. In Finder, go to Applications and then start Automator.

#HOW TO COMBINE PDF FILES MAC AND SAVE HOW TO#

If you have seen my How to Split PDFs tutorial, this is basically the reverse.

#HOW TO COMBINE PDF FILES MAC AND SAVE MAC OS X#

We’re going to use a Mac OS X tool called Automator to set this up.

Repeatable so I only have to set it up once and can use it again and again.

Already built into the OS and not require any additional software.

There are a million ways to do this, including some I have talked about before like using Preview.app to drag and drop pages, and there are lots of applications that one can use to combine PDFs, but I wanted to do something that would be: However, what happens when you have multiple PDFs that really should go in one document? How do you combine PDFs together? Many scanners let you choose between scanning one-PDF-per-page or scanning all the pages into one big PDF.