{"id":497,"date":"2015-11-15T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&#038;p=497"},"modified":"2015-11-15T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T23:40:06","slug":"how-to-merge-two-pdf-files-mac-osx","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/how-to-merge-two-pdf-files-mac-osx\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Merge Two PDF Files Mac OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using Mac OSX you are able to merge two pdf files natively in OSX using the built in preview application. \u00a0This has been tested on Yosemite 10.10 and El Capitan 10.11.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 1 &#8211; Open Both PDF Files<\/h2>\n<p>Either double click or right click and select preview (if you have other PDF programs installed on your Mac)<\/p>\n<h2>Step 2 &#8211; Enable Thumbnails<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Enable-Thumbnails-Merge-Two-PDF-Mac.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-498\" data-original=\"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Enable-Thumbnails-Merge-Two-PDF-Mac.png\" alt=\"Enable-Thumbnails-Merge-Two-PDF-Mac\" width=\"418\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already got thumbnails set to display click on the dropdown as above and click on <strong>Thumbnails<\/strong>. \u00a0Note: If the window size is too small the thumbnails will automatically be hidden regardless of the Thumbnail setting.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 3 &#8211; Select\u00a0the Thumbnails\u00a0from the First\u00a0PDF<\/h2>\n<p>What you need to do here is select the thumbnails in the document which you wish to merge with the other pdf. \u00a0If you have multiple pages that you wish to merge, hold down <strong>Command<\/strong> as you select each page.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 4 &#8211; Drag the Thumbnails from the First PDF to the Second PDF<\/h2>\n<p>After the thumbnails have been highlighted in the first pdf click on one of the thumbnails and drag it to the Thumbnail pane on the second PDF. \u00a0Typically you&#8217;ll want to drag it to below the thumbnails on the second PDF. \u00a0You can also insert the pages in the middle of the other document by moving your mouse up and down before releasing.<\/p>\n<h2>Step 5 &#8211; Rearrange Pages as Required<\/h2>\n<p>Now that you&#8217;ve got all the pages from the first PDF in to the second PDF you can click and drag the pages around to reorganise them as you like.<\/p>\n<div style='text-align:left' class='yasr-auto-insert-visitor'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using Mac OSX you are able to merge two pdf files natively in OSX using the built in preview application. \u00a0This has been tested on Yosemite 10.10 and El Capitan 10.11. Step 1 &#8211; Open Both PDF Files Either double click or right click and select preview (if you have other PDF programs installed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[25],"article-tag":[435],"class_list":["post-497","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-apple-mac","article-tag-merge-two-pdf-files-mac"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":2,"sum_votes":8},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}