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Q: in Lion, PDF Merge is different way

After installed Lion, when preview any PDF file, there is no more sidebars.

 

How to merge PDF files?

 

Or in Lion, is done differently ?

 

Many thanks

 

TM

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 10:04 PM

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  • by leroydouglas,Solvedanswer

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Jul 23, 2011 10:09 PM in response to tigereye19
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    Jul 23, 2011 10:09 PM in response to tigereye19

    You can open the sidebar,  see icon at top.

     

    Drag and drop as before

     

    Pic 2.png

  • by tigereye19,

    tigereye19 tigereye19 Jul 23, 2011 10:45 PM in response to leroydouglas
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    Jul 23, 2011 10:45 PM in response to leroydouglas

    Many thanks to your valued help.

     

    Cheers

     

    tigereye19

  • by judyfromtallahassee,

    judyfromtallahassee judyfromtallahassee Aug 3, 2011 4:19 PM in response to tigereye19
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    Aug 3, 2011 4:19 PM in response to tigereye19

    I am  having trouble merging pdf's.  I've tried dragging, but they usually come over as blank pages.  Do you have any suggestions?

     

    Thanks!

    Judy

  • by bunggee,

    bunggee bunggee Aug 8, 2011 10:13 AM in response to judyfromtallahassee
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    Aug 8, 2011 10:13 AM in response to judyfromtallahassee

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    Try this in Automator and save as Automator Application.

    Drag your PDF File into The Automator Application (that you were create)

    That's it.

  • by Dan D'Errico,

    Dan D'Errico Dan D'Errico Aug 17, 2011 8:10 PM in response to leroydouglas
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    Aug 17, 2011 8:10 PM in response to leroydouglas

    But how do you save the pdfs as one document?  I never did this before Lion.   I can see both documents in the sidebar in the correct order.  But I cannot save them as one document.   How does the merge take place?

  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Aug 17, 2011 8:32 PM in response to Dan D'Errico
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    Aug 17, 2011 8:32 PM in response to Dan D'Errico

    drag on top of the other doc and let go.  Not sure how you get two different doc in one side bar,  so maybe close one out.  Drag the icon from the desktop or where ever to the sidebar and drop on top.  You can arrange the pages as you wish .

  • by Dan D'Errico,

    Dan D'Errico Dan D'Errico Aug 17, 2011 8:46 PM in response to leroydouglas
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    Aug 17, 2011 8:46 PM in response to leroydouglas

    PacificNW: Are you talking about Lion?   When you say, "drag on top of other doc and let go," are you dragging an icon onto an icon or a document on a document?  In any case, you can no longer "Save As..."  so I did not know what to do to get them to merge into a final version.

     

    I finally found a workaround.  I went to Print>Save As PDF -- and saved the combined document like that.

  • by leroydouglas,

    leroydouglas leroydouglas Aug 17, 2011 8:54 PM in response to Dan D'Errico
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    Aug 17, 2011 8:54 PM in response to Dan D'Errico

    Dan D'Errico wrote:

    I finally found a workaround.  I went to Print>Save As PDF -- and saved the combined document like that.

    Good job.

     

     

     

    Dan D'Errico wrote:

     

    In any case, you can no longer "Save As..."  so I did not know what to do to get them to merge into a final version.

     

    Command-S will save your newest version of your PDF.

     

     

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4753

  • by Jeep68,

    Jeep68 Jeep68 Oct 5, 2011 7:35 AM in response to Dan D'Errico
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    Oct 5, 2011 7:35 AM in response to Dan D'Errico

    I think if you are dragging to a multi-page pdf, you have to expand the thumbnail in the sidebar to see all the pages.  Then drag the 2nd document to side bar after the last page in the 1st document.  That makes a single, combined document. 

     

    If you drag it to the sidebar with the 1st document unexpanded, you get separate documents as you saw.

  • by wilfredofromscottsdale,

    wilfredofromscottsdale wilfredofromscottsdale Oct 12, 2011 4:09 PM in response to Dan D'Errico
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    Oct 12, 2011 4:09 PM in response to Dan D'Errico

    Great input! It works! Props to you friend

  • by Nomad79,

    Nomad79 Nomad79 Mar 18, 2012 2:41 PM in response to Dan D'Errico
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    Mar 18, 2012 2:41 PM in response to Dan D'Errico

    This didn't work for me till I tried to highlight all in the thumbnails and hit "Print selected pages" before saving as a single PDF.

  • by ozbadman,

    ozbadman ozbadman Apr 22, 2012 6:40 PM in response to tigereye19
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    Apr 22, 2012 6:40 PM in response to tigereye19

    Mac OS X v10.7 Lion  ( I have only tried this on Lion )

     

     

    Hay guys try this, pic any number of pdf's from your mac open each one in a separate preview page, open up the side bar as explained by leroydouglas then drag the sidebar icon onto the other preview pdf ( please note that under lion you don't see the blue line appear I'm not sure if its only me or just an observation on my machine)  keep doing for as many you need to merge, then go to print, bottom left corner save as pdf, it will create another preview pdf with all sidebar previews as one, this is under Mac OS X v10.7 Lion

     

    Works great on Lion.  excuse my explanation but im not a great writer, thanks enjoy.

  • by cdogo_0,

    cdogo_0 cdogo_0 May 2, 2012 11:41 AM in response to tigereye19
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    May 2, 2012 11:41 AM in response to tigereye19

    ozbadman's solutions is good and actually saves a step. Thanks!

    Here's what i was doing.

    Say you have an open file with the sidebar open. NOTICE the faint line below the last page on the sidebar.

    You can drag entire files from Finder, or pages from another open Preview document into the sidebar, but it must be ABOVE that line. (if you drag them below that line, Preview just reads it as multiple documents open in the same window).

    Then you can save. Or if you don't want to alter that version, Duplicate.

    The issue I had, is that I always had to go back to the Edited document and undo (because Lion constantly saves versions).

    Much prefer ozbadman's version. and I really would prefer a simple shortcut called "save as".

  • by jemetos,

    jemetos jemetos Jul 15, 2012 12:12 AM in response to tigereye19
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    Jul 15, 2012 12:12 AM in response to tigereye19

    I have read through this and I an now see where I was going wrong  - so

     

    When you drag one contact image into the other file/contact page you must place it on top of the first contact image - as if you are laying the pages on top of each other . If you place it along side it sees it as two documents still.

     

    Hope that makes sense.

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