in Lion, PDF Merge is different way

You can open the sidebar, see icon at top.

Drag and drop as before

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

Try this in Automator and save as Automator Application.

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

That's it.

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?

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 .

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.

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

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.

Great input! It works! Props to you friend

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.

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.🙂

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".

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.

SO so far only Dan D\'Errico's solution has worked for me in Lion. Which is frustrating, becuase I finally got the knack of combining pdf's in Snow Leopard, and this was driving me crazy. Dragging and dropping into the side bar and printing to a new document does work - but seriously? That's the easiest way- making a whole new document and then going back and deleting each individual sheet?

You mentioned that I should "expand the thumbnail in the sidebar"... how do i go about doing that?