Combine Feature

My Combine Files feature has disappeared from Tools. Why and where?

Hi,
Please login to https://createpdf.acrobat.com/signin.html with your Adobe ID and password.
You will see "Combine Files" at right pane.
Hisami

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Acrobat 9 Standard Combine Feature Issue

Has anyone had an issue with "set new destination" appearing in the menu pulldown after combining pdf's in acrobat 9 standard using the combine feature?
I use the combine into a single pdf feature to build manuals. These manuals are often updated and I need to reassign a bookmark to a new page. With past versions (i.e. version 6 which didn't have the combine feature), I was able to move to the new page, right click on the bookmark, and select "set new destination"
Funny thing is abobe's help files tell me to do that or go to the bookmark options icon and select "set new destination" but you can't select something that is not there.
This only happens with pdf files that I combined using this combine feature in version 9. I can bring up old manuals in version 9 and find this selection "set new detination" available when I right click on the bookmark.
Any help would be appreciated
HC88

My mistake it is "set destination" in standard not "set new bookmark" as I orginally stated. I see this option only when I go to a previously built book or I manually create bookmarks in version 9. The issue I have is I don't see "set destination" when I use the "combine" (merge files into a single pdf) feature in acrobat 9 to build the book. It seems like it doesn't recognize them the same way as building them manually. I have a friend that has Pro. He is going to run a test for me. I'll let you know how it turns out.
He also thought it might have something to do with tagged verses not tagged bookmarks and that this combine feature maybe combining them as tagged bookmarks. Neither one of us knows much about tagged bookmarks so we weren't sure.

Acrobat XI - combine feature

I have a paid account for Acrobat XI. The combine documents into one feature is missing. I have the other features of the paid account.

There isn't any compatibility issue with Office 2013 and Combine should work with office 2013 same as it with 2010.
Can you please tell us some more details so that we can investigate the problem which you are facing:
1) Please update the exact Acrobat version you are using. This you can find out via "Help -> About Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.." Version should be something like 11.0.x. If it is not 11.0.7, then please update it to 11.0.7 and try again.
2) Is this problem you faced recently (after some update - Acrobat or OS update) or it never used to work earlier for you?
3) You mentioned that when combining, it convert first document only. Can you please let us know how many documents you are combining and what are those formats?
4) Also please update about you environment as well. Is you Operating System and MS Office 32bit or 64bit?
Thanks,
Vishal

Acrobat combine feature switching pages?

I'm using Acrobat 9.5 (Windows) in a business where we handle PDFs from customers every day. For each project, some of my clients prefer to send me all their pages in a PDF that has already been assembled. Other clients send the pages individually and I use Acrobat to group them, check the page order, and output an assembled PDF. (We convert the PDF to a series of images they can view online in a browser.)
Recently I started having problems with projects for a client who sends individual pages. Two months ago, after I posted his project online, he emailed to say one pair of pages was reversed, and could I please fix that. It was pretty embarrassing, considering how basic page order is. So, one month ago, when I combined the pages in Acrobat, I very carefully made sure the pages were in sequence. S-l-o-w-l-y counting "10 ... 11 ... 12 ... 13 ... 14 ... etc" as I viewed the pending combination in Acrobat. I saved the result and converted the PDF. This time when he contacted me to say THREE pairs of pages had been flipped, I was amazed.
I have a half dozen clients with up to 50 or 60 regular projects. This only happens to one client. Plus it's recently started. Can't find anything wrong with his original files. They have normal file numbers. Any ideas?

I'm taking their PDFs, selecting all in Windows Explorer, right clicking to get/use "Combine supported files in Acrobat" from the context menu, which takes me into Acrobat Pro 9.5 to move pages up or down if necessary, then output a standard PDF w/all pages of their magazine.
From that point on, it goes through a process that basically converts each page into a single-frame Flash file (image) for online Web viewing. Pretty much SOP for digital publishers.
Don't know why they're using that route to export their PDFs. Also don't know why some clients send individual pages and some send a single document with all pages already in a PDF file. I don't usually have reason to query them about their production.

Adobe Combine Feature - Sorts numbered files incorrectly

At my company we use a scanning software called Kofax. We also have copies of Adobe Acrobat Standard 6-9 depending on how old the work station is.
Lets say I scan a batch of 120 pages. It will scan each page as an individual .tif file and put them all in a folder.
The naming convention for each page is:
1.tif
2.tif
3.tif
etc
etc
Windows explorer sorts these numbers in correct order. If I decide to select all 120 pages I just scanned, right click, Combine into PDF, it will place the pages in the following order.
1.tif
10.tif
11.tif
12.tif
etc etc
100.tif
101.tif
etc etc
2.tif
20.tif
21.tif
etc etc
This basically requires me to resort the entire batch in the Adobe combine screen. This is very time consuming and tedious. Is there any way to get the Adobe software to recognize the "human" numbers in ascended order? Any help with this would be GREATLY appreciated.

This involves using a photoeditor with renaming capabilities such as ACDSee OR using the command-line (Run>cmd.exe) from the Start menu. For the command line you would type "help for" and a help file for the "for" command would come up. With "for" you can run an iterative loop that would cycle through your files based on certain characteristics and based on the variables you pass it you would be able to renumber your files from 1.tif to 001.tif and 10.tif to 010.tif for example. Numbers 1-9 would be in one for loop, numbers 10-99 would be in another, and if you had to rename for files going into the thousands you would use 100-999 as another for loop, renumbering to a 0100.tif naming convention. That is called "padding" your file names.

Safari 6 new "combined" feature problem

Hi,
I've search and see alot of complaints about Safar 6. I also upgraded to Safari 6 without realising the very non-User friendly changes they have made. I want the Google Search Box back, not the combined Address and Search box. It used to allow you to search from a page and still retain the page you were already on. You could view your history or 'clear' history. Also the Tabs are too wide. Even when you try to customise the Toolbar, to add another "Address and Search" box, it wont let you add another one. If it did let you add another one, then you could possible use that 2nd box, just for searching, and the other just for entering "Addresses".
Please.... how do I unstall Safari 6 and go back to the earlier version of Safari 5x, easily, please? I'm not technical so please could you suggest the non-technical way.
Thanks, hopefully.

Sure, there are other browsers. The best-known are Firefox and Chrome (I would use the open-source version, Chromium, instead.)
You can't get rid of the combined search bar, as far as I know. Somebody may come up with a hack to get around it, but that's the sort of thing I spend most of time on this site helping people to get rid of because they've wrecked their system.
It took me about 5 minutes to get used to the change; now I couldn't care less. Same goes for the wide tabs. It's just not an issue for me. The pinch gesture to show all tabs in miniature is actually an improvement, though not a big one.
One thing I had already done that mitigates the effect of the change is put a bookmark to Google Advanced Search in the Bookmarks bar. Then I can initiate a search by pressing the key combination command-1. No need to use the search bar at all, and I seldom did.

Combine supported files... problem (Word 2007, Acrobat 9, Windows 7)

Windows 7; Word 2007; Acrobat Pro 9
Print > Adobe PDF within Word produces pdf file that faithfully reproduces the Word file (that is, this process works as expected).
RClick context menu 'Combine supported files in Acrobat' produces output characterized by incorrect letter spacing and incorrect typeface (font) output among other issues.
Various possible resolutions have been tried with no success (PDFMaker option changes, output resolution (dpi) changes and so forth).
The same results are obtained when using the combine feature from within Acrobat Pro.
Thanks for any and all help.

Footnotes in tables were the problem with my doc as well. I tried the option of saving the doc as a Word 2003 file, but it didn't help. I chatted with Adobe Customer Service and was provided this fix:
In Word 2007, click on the Acrobat ribbon
In the "Create Adobe PDF" panel, click on "Preferences"
In the "Settings" tab, under "Application Settings," UNCHECK the box next to "Enable Accessibility and Reflow with tagged Adobe PDF"
After that, I was able to create the PDF, and the table of contents and external hyperlinks all worked. The footnotes were no longer hyperlinked, but since they're on the same page as the items they're referencing, that's not really a problem. Cheers,
JG

Improving the Combine in Adobe Acrobat function

Lately I've been using Acrobat to combine scanned pages (saved as png. files) to one PDF file. Unfortunately, the Create PDF from Multiple Documents window doesn't allow in the Files to Combine dialog box to sort the files according to their Last Modified date (or any other standard Windows detailed listing). Therefore I find myself manually moving groups of files up and down as I'm clueless as to which algorithm Adobe uses for the initial sort order, but it is a real mess as it doesn't go according to the file name or file date. I'm using Acrobat Pro. 7.0 but as far as I read in the Product Support Knowledgebase, this hasn't been improved in 8.0. Please let me know if I'm wrong--and I'll upgrade!

To extend this Combine feature improvement request, it would be very helpful if the Combine function would allow you to save and maintain a reusable index of the files in a package, their order, and the location on which they are stored. The Index/Catalog building feature already has something like this, which lets you rebuild an index for a set of files without having to recreate it each time.
It should also be possible to edit the structure and change the files in an existing package, or to update a saved configuration file & use it to rebuild a package. At the moment, I can't add, change, or reorder files in an existing package; I must create the package from scratch, and re-add and re-order all the files with the move up / move down buttons each time.
I am still using Acrobat Pro 8, but from reading about the Portfolio feature in Acrobat Pro 9.0, I do not get the impression that it allows you to modify an existing package (Porfolio) or rebuild it if you have updated files.
Cheers!
Marta Cepek

Acrobat X Pro lagging/never finishing while combining files into pdf?

Hi all,
I'm trying to complete the simple task of combining multiple word documents into one pdf. Since my ultimate product will be very long, I tried to do a test with 2 very small size (text only) word documents. Even this TEST failed to combine -- acrobat hung while "converting" the first file, even after waiting 15+ minutes. How long does this process take?? What am I doing wrong?

Somethings to try:
If not already done ensure all available Acrobat X updates are done.
Open the MS Word files and output PDF from each.
Then open Acrobat X Pro and use the Combine feature to aggregate the PDF files.
Be well...

Combine more than 24 pages from choose pages

I have an issue with Acrobat X Pro and using the combine feature. When I open my current 1200 page pdf in the combine feature then "choose pages", I input my pages that I want.
Example;
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 198, 200, 283, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309
This results in only the first 24 criteria being combined, missing the remainder.
I then re-order the request to state ; 15-24, 149-161, 198, 200, 292-296, 302-309 then it works great, combining all my criteria.
This would normally be fine except that some of my criteria are not easily combined in this new shorter form ie; no consecutive number groups to shorten.
Is this a glitch with Acrobat x Pro or am I missing something?
Anyone who has an idea on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I select the first 24 page numbers then combine to binder 1, continuing throughout my full criteria, THEN combine each binder into final 1.
Long way around but until Adobe Acrobat fixes this issue, I see no other way around it. Possible to script?

Combine at Acrobat XI

I am trying to run the combine feature at Acrobat XI Pro (Win 7 64-bit), Starting to add file to the combine window the program crash !!! Need urgent help

Win 7 Pro
See the message from Event Viewer
Faulting application name: Acrobat.exe, version: 11.0.0.379, time stamp: 0x505fd1ce
Faulting module name: AcSignCore16.dll, version: 16.2.54.0, time stamp: 0x42297c9e
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00004cf1
Faulting process id: 0x454
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf5b0bd0b67a11
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 11.0\Acrobat\Acrobat.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\AcSignCore16.dll
Report Id: 1797532a-c6ff-11e3-94d3-902b3434a31d
I re-install the application after I ran the Acrobat cleaner.....
I tried word document to convert to PDF and it's work...
I need your urgent help.
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ELi

Applescript Acrobat combine pdfs

Hi,
I've tried and failed to create a script that takes two PDF files I've selected in the finder, open Acrobat Pro and use the Combine feature (File > Combine > Merge Files into a Single PDF...), saving them out with the filename taken from the clipboard.
The Automator combine pdfs application and other off-the-shelf products are no good to me as they rely upon choosing files from a dialog box, and the fonts in the resulting pdf can also become corrupted.
So if I go to the Finder and select a file, copy its name, then select a second file, I want a script to combine these two selected PDFs into one, using Acrobat. The filename becomes the name of the first file I copied.
Can anyone help? Many, many thanks if you can: I have a few hundred of these to do.

JustinR wrote:
So if I go to the Finder and select a file, copy its name, then select a second file, I want a script to combine these two selected PDFs into one, using Acrobat. The filename becomes the name of the first file I copied.
Can anyone help?
I don't use Acrobat. Nevertheless, the following script should do exactly what you are asking for using Preview.app. instead.
set theTitle to (the clipboard) & "*" -- remove the asterisk if you wish
set theApp to POSIX file "/Applications/Preview.app" as alias
tell application "Finder"
    set S to selection
    if S is {} then return
    repeat with thisItem in items of S
        if not (name extension of thisItem is "pdf") then return
    end repeat
    open S using theApp
end tell
tell application "Preview" to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Preview"
    set windowName to name of window 1
    tell menu 1 of menu item "Sidebar" of menu 1 of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1
        if menu item "Hide Sidebar" exists then click menu item "Hide Sidebar"
        click menu item "Show Sidebar"
    end tell
    keystroke "a" using {command down} -- Select All
    keystroke "p" using {option down, command down} -- Print Selected Pages…
    repeat until sheet 1 of window 1 exists
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    click menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1
    click menu item "Save as PDF…" of menu 1 of menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1
    keystroke theTitle
    keystroke "d" using command down
    keystroke return
    if button "Replace" of sheet 1 of window "Save" exists then
        click button "Replace" of sheet 1 of window "Save"
    end if
    repeat while sheet 1 of window windowName exists
        delay 0.1
    end repeat
    keystroke "w" using {command down}
    set destinationFolder to choose folder with prompt "Where to put the merge PDF ?" default location (path to home folder)
end tell
tell application "Finder" to move file theTitle of desktop to destinationFolder with replacing
Hope it can help.
Message was edited by: Pierre L.

Error when Combining Multiple File Types

I can't combine multiple file types into one pdf, e.g. .docx and .xlsx files. The combine feature only seems to be working to combine .pdf and .jpg file types. An error message stating the below appears. Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you.

no i can't seem to do that either. the only way I have found to get around it. It's long winded... i export the jpgs from Indesign CS4, then take the jpgs into photoshop CS4 and baiscally resave over the top the of the original jpg without changing any settings, this will then let me combine them in Acrobat Pro 9. for now i will be doing it that way but if anyone knows of another way that would be great.

Error using Combine Files Function

I'm running Acrobat Standard Ver. 8 and I've got >150 .rtf files that need to be converted into a single pdf file. Using the combine files utility when it tries to open the files, it gives me a protection error, ie, "please make sure you have read access to the file". I get the same errors with Word documents. I created these files and can access them just fine with Word. Any suggestions? My IT people are stumped.
Thanks for the help.

I think the Combine feature is designed for files that are already pdfs. You can convert entire folders into pdfs simulataneously then use the combine function.

How to convert/ combine supported files (tif) in Acrobat

This function is a tried and true tool I use "all the time" successfully in MS Windows Explorer. Now the option does not appear after selecting files. Must get it back!

Hi snoogiedoo,
You can use the Combine Feature in Acrobat for this.
You can also open a Acrobat and drag all of the TIFF files into the Acrobat screen to create a PDF
If you no longer are able to do this, try repairing Acrobat and check.

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