Merging/Combining email PDF Portfolios

I am creating a few PDF portfolios with Acrobat Pro 9 and Outlook 2003 to archive my email. I have a few files because it seems like there's a limit on the number of email it will convert at one time(other thread). I have two separate PDF portfolios that nicely present my email with From/Subject/Date/etc columns. I would like to merge my email portfolio files together with the goal of creating one large PDF with all my email. I tried the Modify/Add Files option while one PDF portfolio file is open but rather than integrating the folder structure it just added the second PDF portfolio as a single line item which opens independently.
I know there is an option during the creation of the PDF portfolio in Outlook to "Append to existing PDF" which does what I want but can I do it after the fact now that I have several PDF's already created?
Thank You

Given the way pdf files are structured it's no wonder you are having problems.
At the end of a pdf file there's a reference to the start of the so called xref table given as the byte offset from the start of the file. In the xref table theres byte references to the individual blocks of the pdf file. If you concanate pdf files these byte offsets no longer points to what they are supposed to point to.
To complicate matters there's also linearized pdf files with a slightly different format, where a so-called "hint table" is placed near the start of the pdf file, giving access to the first page of the document before the full document is retrived.
It's a bit puzzling that you see the last file added to the large pdf. One would assume that you would get an error message or garbled data. Maybe your pdf viewer has smart error handling. What viewer are you using?
The pdf format is built to allow you to add pages to a pdf file by adding data to the pdf file. This is what you should look into doing.
Basically you will have to add a reference table at the end of the pdf with references to the various xref tables. Contact me if you want further help with this.

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