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I tried to create a service following your instructions myself, but it didn’t work. I downloaded your zip file and it works fine. Didn’t know where I did wrong lol. In the past I have been using “Combine PDF pages” from Library directly, but I was frustrated that it doesn’t append pages by name. For example, when I rename all my PDF pages I want to combine from 1 to 100, which is the order I intend, automator doesn’t combine from 1 to 100. Instead it combines in such an order as 1, 11, 122, 21.
Well, try this applescript action on the end. I'm trying to compile multiple documents into one document without having to manually copy and paste every page into a master document. I've looked into Automator, and I have found that the only command available there is to combine.txt files, and I am trying to combine.doc files.
It is the same if I rename my files 001, 002, 100. I don’t understand its logic and don’t know how to circumvent this seemingly simple problem. Am I missing some easy steps? Thanks a lot! Holy cow that’s easy! I’d been using Acrobat Pro’s combine pdf functions but I needed to (1) open Acrobat Pro (2) select “Create” from the File menu and select “Combine files into a single PDF” (3) drag the files into a popup box (or select “Add files” and then choose the files ) (4) select “Combine files” (5) select “Save” from the File menu (6) name the new file With the script I just need to (1) select files (2) right click, select “Services,” and then select “Combine PDFs” (3) name new file Much faster and more efficient!
Thanks a million! One of the things I have been really missing since leaving Windows was a set of utilities called PDFill FREE PDF Tools, which I used mainly to merge PDFs.
I knew you can do this using Preview, but, let’s face it, that’s kind of a pain. I teach, so I have to combine PDFs all the time. This was a great tip, and more importantly, I have learned a world of possible actions I can create using the amazing Automator, which I have used before, but I am much more familiar with now through your tutorial. Many thanks to both you and George Harito. Hey thanks this was a great solution. Just a quick one (Didn’t seem to see this in thread) I am interleaving Simplex scanned pages with a second set of pages odds then evens.
To get correct interleaved of odd then even pages – I found that when I select the two original files the odd number file (I.e. The first page, third page 5th pages to-be) had to be the top file when selecting the two files in the finder. (This is when running the automator script) I.e. Just the top file as the files are displayed in the finer window. Even just reversing the alphabetical display of the files in as they are listed in the finder works if you happen to have named the one you want as the 1,3,5 pages with a alphabetical character later than the 2,4,6 file (Like Odd Filename: Even Filename).