{"id":9678,"date":"2019-06-07T13:45:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T08:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.58.113.91\/blog\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2023-07-31T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T13:32:36","slug":"how-to-combine-or-merge-multiple-pdf-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-combine-or-merge-multiple-pdf-files\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Merge Multiple PDF Files into One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a PDF file, you can split or extract individual pages to separate PDF files natively using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/reinstall-microsoft-print-to-pdf-delete-accidentally\/\">Microsoft Print to PDF<\/a> printer. But, to combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF, there is no built-in solution. This article explains how to merge two or more PDF files into one using third-party software.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>How to Combine or Merge Multiple PDF Files into One<\/h2>\n<p>There are several websites that can merge or combine PDF files for you. But, if you need an offline solution, you may consider a light-weight third-party program like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdfshaper.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PDFShaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Using PDFShaper to merge PDF files<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already seen how to use PDFShaper to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-pages-from-pdf-file\/\">delete individual pages<\/a> or images from PDF files. PDFShaper can also be used to split pages, as well as merge multiple PDF files into one.<\/p>\n<p>Start PDFShaper and add the PDF files you want to merge.<\/p>\n<p>Arrange the files using the <strong>Up<\/strong> or <strong>Down<\/strong> arrow toolbar buttons. The PDF files will be merged in the same order you specify here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/merge-combine-pdf-files-2.png\" alt=\"combine or merge pdf files - pdfshaper\" width=\"700\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the right-pane, scroll down the list and click <strong>Merge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Select the output file name when prompted.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9679\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/merge-combine-pdf-files-3.png\" alt=\"combine or merge pdf files - pdfshaper\" width=\"702\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it! The consolidated PDF file is ready and has exactly the same size as the individual PDF files combined.<\/p>\n<h3>Using PdfMerge to combine multiple PDF files<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pdfmerge\/files\/pdfmerge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">PdfMerge<\/a>, an open-source PDF merger software with bookmark importing and pagination, was written to fill the need for producing large PDF documents from multiple sources in a manual or automated way. To serve this need it meets the following requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allow the merge process to be programmatically driven<\/li>\n<li>Allow the creation of bookmark trees by specifying bookmarks to be added<\/li>\n<li>Allow the import of bookmarks from the merged documents.<\/li>\n<li>Support merging of large documents quickly<\/li>\n<li>Allow population of document title fields<\/li>\n<li>Supports optional page numbering and footer annotation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10135\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pdfmerge-sourceforge.png\" alt=\"pdfmerge\" width=\"715\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To add PDF files to the list, select one or more PDF files and drag and drop them onto the PdfMerge window. Alternately, press the <strong>Add Files<\/strong> button.<\/p>\n<p>You can change the order using the up and down buttons.<\/p>\n<h4>Command-line Arguments<\/h4>\n<p>PdfMerge also supports command-line merge operations using a plain-text or XML command file. Here is the command-line syntax:<\/p>\n<pre>pdfmerge &lt;merge_command_file_name&gt; &lt;output_file_name&gt; [\/showpdf] [\/showgui]<\/pre>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>merge_command_file_name:<\/strong> Command file in plain text or XML format<\/li>\n<li><strong>output_file_name:<\/strong> Name of output PDF file<\/li>\n<li><strong>\/showpdf:<\/strong> optional, causes PDF to be shown after it is merged<\/li>\n<li><strong>\/showgui:<\/strong> optional, causes GUI to be displayed after the merge is completed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details on creating a command-file using plain-text or XML, see PdfMerge help pages <strong>Merge Command File \u2013 Plain Text Format<\/strong> and <strong>Merge Command File \u2013 XML Format<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Using Multi PDF Merger<\/h3>\n<p>Multi PDF Merger, from HeiDoc.net, can merge a large number of files, documents, and images into a single PDF file. A large number of document types is supported, such as Microsoft Office, images text files, and PDF and PostScript documents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>System Requirements:<\/strong> Windows 7 or newer, .NET Framework 4.x, GhostScript 9.x.<\/p>\n<pre>Download Multi-PDF-Merger.exe\r\nhttps:\/\/www.heidoc.net\/joomla\/technology-science\/microsoft\/17-multi-pdf-merger<\/pre>\n<h3>Other options to Combine PDF files<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Acrobat Pro DC <a href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/us\/en\/free-trial-download.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free trial<\/a> (for 7 days) and <a href=\"https:\/\/acrobat.adobe.com\/in\/en\/acrobat\/how-to\/merge-combine-pdf-files-online.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">merge<\/a> your PDFs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gonitro.com\/download\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Nitro Pro Free | Nitro Trial version<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pdfsam.org\/download-pdfsam-basic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">The free and open-source PDFsam Basic &#8211; PDFsam<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdflabs.com\/tools\/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">PDFtk &#8211; The PDF Toolkit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/merge-pdf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Merge PDF Online &#8211; Combine PDF Files for Free | Foxit Software<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Do you know any other freeware PDF merge tool? Let&#8217;s know in the Comments section below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a PDF file, you can split or extract individual pages to separate PDF files natively using the Microsoft Print to PDF printer. But, to combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF, there is no built-in solution. This article explains how to merge two or more PDF files into one using third-party software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-utilities","category-windows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9375,"url":"https:\/\/www.winhelponline.com\/blog\/how-to-delete-pages-from-pdf-file\/","url_meta":{"origin":9678,"position":0},"title":"How to Delete Images or Pages from a PDF File","author":"Ramesh","date":"May 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"We have numerous freeware PDF document viewers but not many freeware PDF writer tools are available. 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