For privacy reasons, we don’t use online services either. Some require the Java runtime that we prefer to avoid or aren’t really free. There’s also security / password options.Īlternative PDF merge tools didn’t appeal for various reasons. Pages can be merged normally or combined into ‘2 pages per sheet’ or ‘4 pages per sheet’ to save paper.
The output PDF can be set to a single page format, US or Metric. Use that to split a PDF into smaller ones, see below for other ways to do that without a special tool. It has various useful options beyond just merging several PDF’s into a single file. There are various ‘free’ tools out there but we settled on PDFMate Free PDF Merger available for both Windows and Mac. You could buy Adobe’s PDF editing software or service but that not only costs money, but has a lot more features that probably aren’t needed. The faster and more reliable option is to work with the PDF files and pages directly. That conversion doesn’t 100% retain the formatting of the original PDF. But Word doesn’t really let you edit a PDF, instead it’s converted into a Word document. Just open the PDF in Word and tinker with the pages. Some printing services charge per document as well as per page so combining PDF’s can save a little money.Įver since Word got PDF import features, it’s been possible to use Word to split or combine PDFs. Separate PDF’s saved from Word, Excel or Powerpoint can be mushed into one file. You’ll be prompted for a new PDF file name and folder to save it.
The result is another PDF file with just the pages you’ve chosen. There are options to print non-continuous pages like 1, 3-5 to print page 1, 3,4 and 5. For example, a 10 page PDF can be compressed to just 3 pages by printing pages 2-4 only. The simple way split up a PDF is to open the file in any PDF viewing program then ‘Print’ to another PDF file.īoth Windows and Mac have in-built PDF viewers and also ‘Print to PDF’ options that take the print commands from any program and save them to a PDF file (not a printer).Īll you do is open the PDF in any viewer then ‘print’ the pages you want. Using ‘Print to PDF’ to save some PDF pages Here’s how to make a smaller PDF with just the key info pages. The main info is on the first or second page followed by pages of ‘fine print’ and ads. We often do this with airplane and car rental paperwork. Let’s start with the really easy trick to ‘split’ a PDF or just make a smaller PDF with only some pages from the larger original file. There’s a way to get some pages from a larger PDF that’s not only free but already installed in Windows and Mac computer. Here’s how to do that for free without bothering with Word’s PDF conversion feature. Sometimes you need to merge or split a PDF file.
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