Opening certain pdf's to combine

My Adobe Reader will not permit me to open and combine some pdf's if they were sent via email as it says they are not "decoded." Is there a setting where I can disable that so I can combine these files?

You CANNOT, under any circumstances, combine PDFs with Reader. Acrobat Professional or Adobe's online CreatePDF service can do that, but NOT Reader.

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