Darcy, That was it! I was dragging the new pages into the sidebar, but I WASN'T dragging them on TOP of the thumbnail, I was dragging them BELOW, where I thought I wanted them to go. I have to make sure I drag it to the LOWER 50% of the thumbnail, too, otherwise it will put it before the page I am dragging it onto, instead of after. This seems to have changed in the new OS, and the new behaviour is not accounted for in the help file.
Eric, I saw the Automator idea once you clued me into it. I will certainly remember it for the next time, especially if the job is this big again! Thanks all for your quick and on-point answers Christopher On Tue May 1, at TuesdayMay 1 12:33 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote: > Hi Chris, > > You aren't currently combining the documents in Preview, you are just viewing > multiple documents from the same window. You can't save the result because > you're not actually making any changes. > > Don't just drag new PDF pages into the sidebar, drag them ON TO the thumbnail > at the top of the main PDF in the sidebar -- you will know you are doing it > right if you get the green "+" icon on your pointer when you drag. > > Cheers, > > - DJA > ----- > WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org > > > > On 1 May 2012, at 9:04 AM, Christopher Smith wrote: > >> Hi combined MacOSX wisdom, >> >> I have a whole bunch of single-page files that I want to combine into one >> PDF. I had heard this was possible in Preview on Mac, and sure enough I can >> copy pages from one PDF to another document, but then I can't save the >> result! >> >> If I "save as" then it only saves the single page I was showing at the time, >> and if I try to "print" and then save a PDF, it only prints the page I was >> showing at the time. I could have sworn this was possible, but I can't get >> it to work. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Christopher >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> Finale@shsu.edu >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
