Saving combined PDFs into one new document?
I know how to combine PDFs into one document using Preview, but I am not finding any way to save the resulting new document. There is no "save as" any longer in Preview, and when I choose "save", it only saves the first document, not the whole collection of documents.
There must be a way to do this! There used to be, and it was easy as pie.
Can someone help, please?
Mark Carlson
Thank you. I was able to conjure up "save as"--though why should you have to hold down the option key? Why isn't "save as" just there? Well, it doesn't really matter, since "save as" still only saves one of the documents in the combined bunch.
But your second method of accessing it through Print worked just fine.
Thanks so much!
Mark
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