How To Combine Multiple PDF Files Into One PDF On An Apple Mac

[@pierretardif6388]

You are the best... simple, short and direct to the point. Merci!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice comment and for watching.

[@paulettesmith6229]

Really appreciate your video. Especially learning about Automator. Well done for taking the time to benefit many of which I'm one!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks. Also thanks for taking time for nice comment.

[@ivanvega2821]

This helped me out tremendously. I did the preview method and it worked amazingly. Thanks man!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching the channel

[@helenamonteirosilva8554]

Wow, wow, greatly appreciate your help. I own a Mac computer since 2009 and I never use Automator because there's no need for it. Today I need to combine the documents and I follow your video and used the Automator for the 1st time and I like how you explain step by step how to do it. I combine the documents before but I used a different tool and I could not remember then I went to youtube and found you. Can not thank you enough for the great job you do explain things. Keep up the good work. You explain it better than my undergrad/college computer teacher. I learn more with RUclipsrs than my professor that I pay thousands a year in University tuition. God Bless you.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice comments and for watching. I'm glad the videos are helping and I'll try and make a few more in the future around this topic.

[@folkienumnums]

I needed some last minute help on a project that was due and which I had not submitted correctly. I'm not that tech-savvy, and did not know how to combine pdfs into one. I used the Preview option, and the video was very clear on how to do this. Thanks very much!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching.

[@oluwolebadmus6374]

You saved my life .... from Adobe! Thank you Craig

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Oluwole. Good luck.

[@quickmath7780]

Thank you sooooo much for saving my life I was stress out with this PDF things

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching

[@william2norman]

So very well explained. I tried Option 1, and it worked. Thank you.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching.

[@ulziis172]

thank you very much really helpfull video.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching.

[@commentoria]

Brilliant, thank you. The first way was easy.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the comment and for watching.

[@natsarimlife9508]

Thank you so much. First time using that cute robot LOL, going to explore that some more. mean while you just saved me a couple of hours. thank you so much

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and good luck with everything.

[@denniswoods3909]

Thank You so much! I set up the Automator Workflow and it worked like a charm. I'm not very tech savvy so I was a bit uneasy, but it was so easy to do because of your clear and straight forward instructions. I have a 39 page document from my Mother that I was dreading and putting off working on. Now it should be pretty easy. Thank you!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice comment and best of luck.

[@alexandergreenwood1736]

Thanks Craig, worked like a charm.

[@craigneidel]

Welcome and thanks for watching.

[@Shellsterharris]

Thank you so much! I had to combine multiple docs into one PDF and you nailed it! You are a great teacher.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice words

[@isntlifebetter]

OMG YESSSSSS!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCHHHH Been surfing YT about 30 minutes trying to find the answer and its this easy you are a god send!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the nice words and for watching.

[@MarkPeotter]

Thank you for the lesson! I just used the "Preview", but I was able to drag and drop the PDF's into the Thumbnail Column. Export as PDF. Easy!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback Mark.

[@tsholomonyausi33]

this was the best explanation. thank you so much sir.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback on the PDF video.

[@kotokopopo9060]

Extremely helpful and straight to valid points, well done! Thanks a million!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and the feedback.

[@derekfixter9084]

Very helpful vlog Craig, thanks for posting.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and the kind words Derek.

[@umarnawazkhan5557]

thank you so much, perfect tip..and why waste unnecessary money on expensive softwares

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Umar.

[@JustHere751]

Thank you!!!

[@craigneidel]

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[@sassypatriot6618]

Very helpful! Thank you so much!!!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the comment and the support of the channel.

[@Krash_Auto]

Thank you man, was pushing the envelope on an assignment and a video never helped me as much in a pinch like this. Helped me save 20% of my grade👍

[@craigneidel]

Welcome and thanks for feedback. Thanks for watching.

[@laurelcameron8267]

So appreciate this video - thank you! It is perfect for what I needed and helped me do exactly what I needed to!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching. Hope you can sub

[@melline027]

Thank you so much this was so helpful. I couldn’t find the steps needed you described in any other videos.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and for watching.

[@GeorgeShufane]

Very helpful video ! Thank you

[@craigneidel]

Thanks George.

[@erikacherry89]

I love you thank you soooooooooo much, saved me so much headache. :)

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and the nice words.

[@rveats]

Thank you! Very nice way of doing it the second version

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching.

[@ShavedHead]

starts in 2 min
thanks man!

[@catalizastudio]

It works!! Thank you so much!

[@craigneidel]

Welcome

[@truegrit7697]

I spent half of the day trying how to do the on my new scanner - thank you so much!! I'm saving this to my dissertation file! ❤

[@craigneidel]

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[@AdiNow-pn5rq]

very helpful thank you so much!

[@craigneidel]

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[@ceecee7693]

Great Video!! Thanks

[@craigneidel]

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[@mahbobajabary441]

Great, thank you very much Craig

[@craigneidel]

You are very much welcome Mahboba.

[@nonhlanhlamakhathini2540]

So helpful!!!!!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for feedback on this.

[@DavidBishopinc]

Beautiful. Well done my friend. Perfect solution.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching David.

[@faryjohana1709]

Thanks so much!! You are awesome!

[@craigneidel]

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[@signorazai]

Thank you, this video is very helpful 🙏🏻

[@craigneidel]

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[@nasseralkubaisi8982]

You've helped me a lot. thank you sir.

[@craigneidel]

Your welcome.

[@simsmiley1415]

Great and easy to follow instructions! Thank you!

[@craigneidel]

Thank you for the feedback.

[@JF-fs3nn]

It was very helpful specifically the second way. Thanks a lot for sharing it.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback J F.

[@StantonRich]

Fantastic

[@craigneidel]

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This was great thank you 🙏

[@craigneidel]

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[@MaryanHassan-rt4wk]

Life saver thank u!!!

[@craigneidel]

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Very helpful video! I appreciate this type of content. Thank you!

[@craigneidel]

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[@param277]

very helpful. thank you

[@craigneidel]

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[@glorytoglorybollyton]

Thank you so much!!! Very helpful and straight forward

[@craigneidel]

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[@TobiasELee]

GREAT explanation - thank you!

[@craigneidel]

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[@markrea2]

Awesome; thanks!

[@craigneidel]

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Thank you

[@craigneidel]

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[@AnilSingh-mj6lj]

Thank You! 👍

[@craigneidel]

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[@ImTiffanyNicole]

Very helpful! Just what I needed thank you!

[@craigneidel]

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[@debbiewalk8469]

You are a rockstar

[@craigneidel]

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[@craigneidel]

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[@samuelreid7426]

Stay great

[@craigneidel]

Funny thanks

[@deenagreenhaw1042]

Im so happy I saw your video, I have over 500 emails and attachments I need to combine and until now I didn't know what I was going to do., I do have one question, my attachments come up fine but my actual email is not showing up, it is a blank page. Any suggestion you could give me?

[@craigneidel]

I have not tried that with emails but I'm guessing it can't read the email format of those files. I'll let you know if I find anything out.

[@quickmath7780]

option one worked for me

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for sharing and watching.

[@ADRiley1]

Thank you! This is exactly the instruction I was looking for! Appreciate this

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for letting me know it helped.

[@maricopaassembly4985]

Thank you Craig. I have been dreading this job and your instructions make it look easy. I will let you know how it turns out. Keep your fingers crossed. 🙂

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the comment and watching.

[@franzmostermann4837]

When using an iPad (pro) I‘d advise to use PDF EXPERT by Readle. It costs only little money and allows you to work with PDF documents almost as if they were Word documents. When I wanted to combine pdfs I had to copy them from my iMac to the iPad, combine them there and then back to the iMac. Your Automator version is way easier to use! Thank you! Hope you are doing good!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for sharing and I hope you are doing good too. Haven't had too bad of a winter in Chicago (mild in 30s) so can't complain there. I'll need to check out PDF Expert.

[@roseworld4026]

Thank you so much. You literally saved me hours of frustration. I'm extremely grateful

[@craigneidel]

Thanks Rose.

[@Kimberly-tf1fi]

For printing purposes, will the first way work just fine? I heard something about combining pdfs via preview is not ideal for printing. Thank you for the video! New sub here :)

[@craigneidel]

It should and I have had no issues but I'm guessing it could depend on how the PDF was generated in the first place. I can only go off my experience to date. Thanks for the sub and watching.

[@ncrmlsvideos8867]

Thank you so much for sharing this with us!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching.

[@MoctezumaMusic]

This was super useful! Thank You Craig!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad the PDF video helpled.

[@GabeSegundo]

Sweet thank you!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching. Check out my newer videos if you get a chance as I have a bunch if you like the Mac.

[@lovelylorenza4000]

thank you so much, craig!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and I hope it helped.

[@nassimbenzaim9725]

Thank you so much ☺️

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Nassim.

[@huzchill2483]

Very helpful

[@craigneidel]

Thanks and I like your channel name - the best.

[@LondonSkyTV]

Thanks!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching the channel.

[@serahwelime4299]

I loved this tutorial i grasped it fast thxs

[@craigneidel]

Thanks Serah. I hope it helps.

[@eduardowatkinz]

Very helpful, nice tip.....

[@craigneidel]

Thanks Eduardo.

[@pattysullivan128]

Thank you. I got it done!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Patty.

[@shannaleelevy322]

So helpful! Thank you so very much!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and nice comment

[@jenn23love]

Thank you! This was very helpful.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Kate.

[@FunThingsIsee]

Thank you, that was straight forward and very helpful.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Matthew.

[@kh5551]

Thank you soo much

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Adel.

[@zacharyst-jean5831]

Hello thank you very much for the information, however, I am having trouble when I press "Run" it says that the operation couldn't be completed. Command line tool returned error 127.:127. Would you know why? Thank you

[@craigneidel]

I have never seen that error before. I'll see if I can figure anything out but never saw an error like that on a Mac.

[@midge4571]

Hi just saw your video about your iMac 2011 and was wondering if you think it would be good for online school? I have a small budget but need something that will run Microsoft teams and office 365 relatively easily and fast and not sure what else is in my budget

[@craigneidel]

I have two 2011s (21.5 and 27"). To be honest I have not used it for either of those since I use my newer machines now. I do think they should handle it if you can boot off an external SSD like I did (see my other videos). My machines run very smooth even @ 10 years old once I booted off the external SSD. Good luck with everything.

[@joshsaggers7290]

Very easy and useful!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching Josh and the nice words.

[@KillroyX99]

It works!

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for feedback

[@soul3461]

OMG! I just merged PDF by automator. Thank you!!!
Can you speak a little slowly please?! Very low-tech woman here. ;)

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and I'm glad it worked.

[@Soralella71]

Thank you.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and the support.

[@NancyGByun-yx9kn]

When using the Automator I get a Error “Combine PDF Pages” encountered an error: “The operation couldn’t be completed. Command line tool returned error 127.: 127” Do you have any advice on how to fix this? Thank you for your video.

[@sappk4908]

THANKS

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and I hope you can sub if you get the chance. Also, thanks for the feedback.

[@serenamoss5346]

Thank you! You made this so easy to follow. I really appreciate it.

[@craigneidel]

Welcome thanks for watching

[@almasfakhrana871]

life safer! thank you

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for the support Almas.

[@jenniferelsbury8875]

do you have a video on combining word docs in automator. I cant get it to work on latest version- error 127 keeps coming up. Word 365, or office does not show in the library?

[@craigneidel]

Sorry but I don't have a video on that yet. I don't have any plans now to make one but if I do I can notify you. Thank you and good luck with everything.

[@fedezfer]

thanks

[@craigneidel]

Thanks for watching and the comment.

[@ejvaldez4175]

TY

[@craigneidel]

Your Welcome EJ.

[@haleykins5091]

What is insert>page from file won’t let you click on it?

[@craigneidel]

This is an older video so you might be on a version of MacOS that could be different.

[@sdmassagesheal]

I used your first method but when I export to pdf, only 1 of my 6 pages gets saved. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[@craigneidel]

Maybe try the second method. With newer versions of MACOS they changed things a little bit. Thank you.

[@sdmassagesheal]

@@craigneidel Many thanks!

[@johnmknox]

2:23 It won't allow me to do it. It comes up with a message asking for an owner's password even though these are my own bank statements. 5:29 This second method also gave me an error. "The action “Combine PDF Pages” encountered an error: “The operation couldn’t be completed. Could not duplicate the PDF document" and it goes on to give the file locations. I think that any statements you download from your bank must be password protected in some way by the bank and it prevents you from combining them which is a real PITA. It only allows you to download one year at a time and there is now no way to combine all those Adobe files. That Automator does seem like a useful feature though that I'd like to use more.

[@craigneidel]

Thanks, yes it does sound like it could have some different encryption on it for sure as I have never seen that before.

[@mickikn613]

i had 13 pages and i couldn't email it did i miss a step

[@RuHo16]

The first option does not work for me. It does not show the preview on top. It shows google chrome. Will try the second one. Hopefully it works. Im spending more time trying to combine the two documents than I spent writing them.

[@craigneidel]

Funny, it might be due to the version of the OS etc. you are using.

[@craigneidel]

Yes, see if the other way works and if not I'll see what I can find.

[@titusbucur9834]

Thank you, thank you....
I have a question though.
I have created a workflow to encrypt (password protect) a .pdf file.
Once the workflow is done, I check the "results" and i see the result file there.
When I click on the result file it opens up in preview, asking me to enter the password.
Perfect until now. But, from here, how do I preserve the new password protected .pdf file ? I mean, how do I save the file to my computer to protect the encryption?
It looks like I am not able to preserve the encryption done through the automator workflow once I save the open file in preview.
Please help...
Thanks, Titus

[@craigneidel]

I have not done this workflow so I'm not sure what to tell you right now. If I figure anything out I will follow up. I would also do some searching online to see if somebody had this exact use case before to see if that will help. Thanks for watching and if I can figure anything out I will let you know.

[@titusbucur9834]

@@craigneidel Thank you, Craig.
I figured out a solution. I do not know how sound it is, but it works for me.
At the end of the workflow i used: "copy finder items" to a temporary folder, from where i can manipulate the pdf.
All perfect this way.
But is funny though, as I wonder where the Automator temporarily keeps its files.
Al the best,
Titus

[@craigneidel]

@@titusbucur9834 thanks for the update and sharing.

[@nounix]

Hi! I have 3 different pdf files that are chat exports with the same person. One file is our chat history on whatsapp, the other on facebook messenger, and the last has our chats on imessage and regular SMSes. These files are huge as the go back longer than a decade ago... What I want to do is merge all 3 in pdfs into ONE pdf file and I want the messages to automatically fall in place (be sorted) in relation to the date & time they were sent and received. **So, NOT to be able to just pick a page from one pdf, and insert it between 2 other pages of the other pdf; but to be able to select PARTS of the page from one pdf, and stick them inbetween parts of the other pdf...)
I just want to end up with a final pdf file that contains all the messages from all the pdfs, but in chronological order - as if it was one single "global-chat" pdf export!!
Is there a way to do this? (I'm on a Mac by the way, running Monterey)

[@alovesherdoggie]

My automatically opens in adobe. this is so annoying :( i wish i can get to the preview page but it won't let me

[@craigneidel]

You must have something mapped that way. Just open the app you need first and try the steps. Thanks for watching.

[@amladinov]

Thanks , Which PDF are you using? Link Please ??

[@craigneidel]

Not sure what you are asking. Thanks for watching.

[@alieucham3391]

The video is helpful, but blurry

[@craigneidel]

Not sure why blurry, maybe an Internet bandwidth thing.

[@projectbedrocktx]

Insert page from file isn't highlighted for me. So it didn't work.

[@craigneidel]

What version of MacOS are you running etc.

[@projectbedrocktx]

@@craigneidel Ventura

[@craigneidel]

@@projectbedrocktx ok I tested it earlier so it may not be on Ventura. I'll see what I can find.