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I am hoping someone can help me with this. I am hoping to create a document that will combine numerous pdf files that I have so that I can save them as one pdf file. I see where I can export as pdf but not where I can import a pdf. Is this possible?

Thanks!

Heather

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Not within OOo. I use PDF Creator http://www.pdfforge.org/ to combine pdf files.

PDFsam is also good.

My suggestion:
PDFTK Builder, http://www.angusj.com/pdftkb/

dhduncan wrote:I see where I can export as pdf but not where I can import a pdf. Is this possible?

You can import PDF files into OOo with the SUN PDF Import Extension: http://extensions.services.openoffice.o ... /pdfimport. But don't expect too much. It's hard to edit imported PDF files afterwards, because they "only" get imported into OOo Draw.

To glue several PDF files together I use iText: http://itextpdf.com/. It's useful if you want to do it with Java.

PDFSam is very good and free. you can download it from their website.

alanMor wrote:PDFSam is very good and free. you can download it from their website.

And open source too! Thanks for the hint. i hadn't found that one before.

Hi, I have a good question that goes along with this thread, so I will post it here. I'm doing a project where I have to combine text with assorted PDF files. So I will have to add some explanation text, and a section/chapter title, plus the PDFs below it. Then I want to combine everything into one large pdf file. So basically, I want to splice many typed OO documents in between many pdf files, and merge everything all together.

Since OO is my preferred word program, does anyone know if there are any pdf merge programs that would allow me to add my OO documents to a pdf?

As an afterthought, I know that OO can be converted to pdf, and that's very cool. I just wondered if there was an easier way to do it, instead of having to save all the small OO documents into PDF first.

I don't think there is any application that could do such process.

Note that there is also PDF Toolkit with its GUIPDFTK graphical interface to merge files.

Sometimes, it's quicker to redo the PDF in OOo than spending time with multiple operations to save the files separately and then merge them.

cheers duncan,
you dont need to download any program.... im pretty sure there are numerous sites on the web you can use as a tool
for instance, i use combinepdf.cc/ ... for as many pdfs as you wish (i think).
anyways, sure this should help
have a nice day
cam

Thanks cammeyyy!!!

works great!!!

cameyyy wrote:cheers duncan,
you dont need to download any program.... im pretty sure there are numerous sites on the web you can use as a tool
for instance, i use combinepdf.cc/ ... for as many pdfs as you wish (i think).
anyways, sure this should help
have a nice day
cam

this does work quite nicely thanks a bunch