Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

** Reply to message from Peter West <lists@pbw.id.au> on Thu, 30 Jan 2014
11:53:32 +1000

Thanks Peter. It works as you described. The quirk to watch out for is to
drag the page to be inserted after the existing page and NOT below the cutoff
line on the thumbnail list. If you put it below the line then when you save,
what is below the line is not saved.  If above the line then it is all as
advertised. I selected all the pages I wanted to copy at once since they were
going to be at the end of the initial document. Worked slick.

Cliff

> It's a bit fiddly.  You need to experiment a bit, because there are 
> certain quirks in the process, and I don't remember them all off the top 
> of my head. For example, you may find that you can only insert a page in 
> front of an existing page, in which case, you will have to work from the 
> last document, backwards. I'll assume here that you can insert after an 
> existing page.
>
> Copy the first document you want to merge, and open it in Preview.  Open 
> the thumbnails sidebar. Now open the next document, and open its 
> thumbnails panel.  The safest but slowest way to do this is to select 
> one page at a time from the thumbnails of the second document, and drag 
> that thumbnail into the thumbnail panel of the first document. Save your 
> resulting document.
>
> You have to be careful with the positioning of the inserted page, 
> because you can end up with multiple documents within the target pdf. 
> You might be Ok with that. This outcome seems to be more likely when you 
> select multiple pages from the source document.  Try it out.  Make sure 
> that, as you complete the merge of one document, you make a separate 
> copy of the merged result, so that if things subsequently go wrong, you 
> don't have to start from the beginning.
>
> Let me know how you go.
> On 30/01/2014 2:28 am, Cliff Scott wrote:
> > ** Reply to message from Peter West <lists@pbw.id.au> on Wed, 29 Jan 2014
> > 23:04:39 +1000
> >
> > Peter,
> >
> > Could you explain off list how to do it with Preview? I've looked it over and
> > there is no obvious way I can see to do it. Thanks.
> >
> > Cliff
> >
> > > Another way to manipulate PDFs is with PDFBox.
> > > https://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html
> > >
> > > If you're on a Mac, you can just use Preview.
> -- 
> Peter West
> "Other seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked it..."

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