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March 8, 2007

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CombinePDFs does that and more

Posted Mar. 8, ’07, 8:45 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

CombinePDFs“Hey,” says my friend Jason this morning. “How can I remove just one page from a PDF?”

I toss that one over for a while in the old noggin. I’d thought that Acrobat Reader would let you do it, but not so much. Nor does Preview. I know the full version of Acrobat would, as would SmileOnMyMac’s PDFpen, but both of those are on the pricey side for a one-time deal. This is OS X, for goodness sake, there must be a simple, easy way to do it.

We both came up with the same stupid solution: printing two range of pages around the page he wants to skip and then merging them. Only then we need to find an app to merge them. So I do some searching and come up with a couple of apps that are supposed to merge PDFs—both end up crashing. Nice.

Finally, I hit up the old Google and stumble across Monkeybread Software’s freeware CombinePDFs app. I load it up, and not only does it let you merge PDFs, it also lets you remove a page. Works like a dream. Let it be a beacon to those of you stuck in the wilderness of PDF manipulation.


2 Comments

Jeremy said:

I've been using CombinePDFs for a while now. It's a dream come true for those needing to mess with larger PDF files. I don't even open my old copy of Acrobat anymore.

March 8, 2007 11:00 AM
Link33 said:

Combine PDF has a few limitations I would want to have worked out. But every time I open it and realize "Oh it's free!" the limitations just kinda of fade away. (Although I am constantly changing the description fields.) And it works on my G3 iBook with Jaguar and my intel iMac with Tiger.

March 9, 2007 5:16 AM

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