Combining pdf files in Preview not saved

I'm trying to combine screenshots into one pdf file. I clicked on the side bar button and dragged the files I wanted into the side bar and then saved this as a pdf file. It showed it as saving all the pages but when I closed it and reopened it, it had only one file. (It was now opened in Adobe Reader). Why is it not saving it as a combined file?


Thanks,

Kathy

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

Posted on Jan 22, 2013 5:40 PM

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Mar 28, 2016 8:48 AM in response to Kathy Dahlin

Your link didn't work for me. But here's how I got around what I think was the same problem. I could combine pdfs in Preview (Yosemite on Macbook Pro) but the combined document wouldn't save using Preview's "save" or "export" or "export as pdf" dropdown. It just saved the first page and no other thumbnails/pages.


What did work was to choose "print" and then "print to pdf". When I opened the print-to-pdf version, my combined pdf contained all the pages.


This is my first time answering a question online. Please be kind if I committed any newbie offenses ;-)

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