From housing contracts to business deals, PDFs seep into just about every area of the internet as the official document format you need to get things done. But sometimes using the popular format means we need to convert, combine, or edit them. PDFs, however, can often pose quite a challenge when working with different operating systems.
Whether you’re a Mac or Windows user, we’ve broken down the steps for combining your PDF files. Here is how to do it with whichever computer you have.
A third-party web-based tool like PDF Joiner
A free desktop app called PDFgear
Our current favorite method for merging PDFs is a free app called PDFgear. It's an easy to use, quick-to-install desktop app that allows you merge PDFs in just a few steps. No sign-ups or subscriptions required.
PDFgear is available for Windows, macOS, and iOS.
Note: The following instructions were tested and written based on the Windows version of PDFgear.
Step 1: Go to the PDFgear website and download the version of the app that is appropriate for your PC's operating system. Then install the app.
Step 2: Once it is installed, open up PDFgear. You'll then be presented with its main menu screen which displays all of PDFgear's PDF editing tools. We're only interested in combining PDFs right now, so select the Merge & split tab.
Step 3: Then select the Merge PDF button. Then on the Merge PDF screen that appears, select Add files.
Step 4: Choose the PDF files you want to combine and then select Open.
Step 5: Once your selected files appear in the PDFgear app, look for the Output file name text box. In that text box, edit the name of your soon-to-be-merged PDF file to whatever you like.
Step 6: Then select the red Merge button.
Once the merging of your selected PDFs is complete, you'll automatically be shown your new PDF's file location. From here, you can open and view your newly merged PDF.
There are scores of free, web-based tools that will allow you to merge PDF files — and that’s good news for you. If you need to merge files quickly, this may be the best option since these programs don’t really care where your PDF files come from or where they’re going. They don’t require installing any additional programs either. They can have strict size limits, though.
Below are two popular tools for merging PDF files, but keep in mind that they both do the same thing. If you run into formatting issues with one tool, then try another.
There are so many different ways to merge PDFs that you might not know which will best suit your needs; fortunately these work with every OS, so you can try them all. With so many options for combining PDF files, you don’t have to struggle anymore. No matter what OS you’re running (or how many files you need to merge), there’s a tool to make it easier.
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