Can't combine PDFs in Preview 7.0

I just upgraded to Mavericks last night, and now I'm having an issue with Preview -- I can't use it to combine two PDF documents.

The help section says to open the documents you want to combine and set both to thumbnail view, then drag the thumbnail of one doc on top of the thumbnail for the other doc and release it when a green "+" symbol appears. This method worked fine in Mountain Lion, and I used it regularly. Now, the green "+" symbol doesn't appear, and I can't combine the documents.

Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? Or is it an error that Apple needs to patch?

MacBook Air (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 24, 2013 10:44 AM

32 replies

KrazyCat

Level 1

58 points

May 5, 2014 10:00 AM in response to Igzy

has there been a solution to this

i can neither open nor close thumbnails and dragging one file onto the other does absolutely nothing for me

any solution yet ?

i am on mavericks latest update

is there a problem with mavericks on this ?

can someone post step by step on this

i have tried multiple times and i get no green plius sign when i drag docs together

May 5, 2014 9:59 AM in response to KrazyCat

Yes there is a solution. Put both pdf's into the thumbnail view, then export as a pdf.

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Can't combine PDFs in Preview 7.0