Jonathan! That's even better! Thanks so much. Christopher
On Wed May 2, at WednesdayMay 2 4:29 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: > I can answer this one. > > Put all the pdfs you wish to combine into one folder, get these files in the > order you want them to print in (number them or something). Select them all > double click to open in preview. You should see all the pages in descending > order in the sidebar. > > Click on the second page down, scroll down to the final page and shift click > (therefore selecting pages 2 to the end), scroll back up to the top page in > the sidebar, now drag all those pages onto the first page (a plus sign with > the number of pages you've grabbed come up as you do this). > > Now, IMPORTANT, go to the <Previous> arrow top left of the toolbar and click > it enough times to get yourself back so the first page is in view. Hit save. > This helps to open the file again with page one first and keep it all in > order. > > Close the file. Now go back into your folder and you can bin all the pdfs > that formed pages 2 to the end, keep just the first one which should now > include all the other pages within it, in sequence. > > Another thing I do is to prepare all the other pages first in their single > files (e.g. if they are upside down, need centering, etc,) before Group > selection and amalgamation, otherwise some things are more difficult to > accomplish when they are all in one file. > > Hope it works out for you. > > Cheers, > Jonathan > >> 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
