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Camalot · 5 Sep 2011 at 15:47

Hi Guys.

I have scanned in some documents needed for some colleagues. Basically i am wanting to merge some of the documents into 1 PDF file so all pages can be opened as one and printed all together instead of having to open about 17 pages and printing them separately.

Is this even possible?

Regards.

Sunbed · 5 Sep 2011 at 16:24

Generally you will need some sort of professional level PDF manipulating software. Adobe Acrobat or Foxit PhantomPDF will do that sort of thing.

Or just try something like this: http://www.pdfmerge.com/

div0 · 5 Sep 2011 at 16:28

Are they already in PDF format?

A quick google of 'pdf merge' should give you some free solutions.

shine · 5 Sep 2011 at 16:31

I use Libre Office Draw to create PDF's - import all the scanned images into doc, reorder as necessary and then save as a PDF.

asim18 · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:42

Are they just A4 size scanned images?

I've got InDesign, if you send them to me I can do it for you?

Camalot · 6 Sep 2011 at 07:45

They are scanned in documents / images.

I have made three packs, each including 5-10+ scanned in documents. I want to distribute each pack to up to 17 different managers across a region so they have electronic copies of some information.

shine said:
I use Libre Office Draw to create PDF's - import all the scanned images into doc, reorder as necessary and then save as a PDF.

This worked a treat, many thanks.

SexyGreyFox · 6 Sep 2011 at 11:07

Just for your information, because I normally do this at least once a day, Adobe Professional adds a right click in Explorer so you choose the files you want and press Combine Files.

Another way would be to scan the documents as JPG's, put the JPG's into Publisher/Word and install a free program called PDFCreator which pretends it's a printer but prints out to PDF.
Office 2010 can save to PDF without installing anything.

I spend a lot of time with PDF's.

Camalot · 6 Sep 2011 at 14:34

Thanks mate.