.pdf editor for Mac

[gjm]

I thought I would ask here.

I want to take .pdf files that have been exported from 3 different programs and put them together as a single document. Is there such a program?

Thanks

[Homebelly]

iWorks pages will do it.
Its also a very cool easy nonbloated office application to.
I use it to design and produce all my teaching materials.

Not sure about free???

[aeon_flux]

preview will do it. open first pdf then drag remaining one into sidebar then save.

[gjm]

iWorks pages will do it.
Its also a very cool easy nonbloated office application to.
I use it to design and produce all my teaching materials.

Not sure about free???

I have iWorks but did not think to check. I have been using open office to prep all my material and I am finding it hard to give up. Might be the kick I need. Thanks.

[gjm]

preview will do it. open first pdf then drag remaining one into sidebar then save.

Thanks... I shall experiment.

Cheers.

[fishmonkey]

here is another handy option too:

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freew ... PDFs.shtml

[steko]

preview will do it. open first pdf then drag remaining one into sidebar then save.

that's how it works on Leopard.

On Snow Leopard:

For those who use Preview to combine PDF documents, Snow Leopard has added a twist to the process. In earlier versions of Preview, combining documents was simply a matter of dragging the individual pages from one document's sidebar to the other document's sidebar, and then rearranging the pages by dragging them up and down in the sidebar list of the combined document.

Preview now allows you to open more than one document in a single window -- you can have any combination of PDFs, JPEGs, and whatever else Preview can open, all open at once. When used in this manner, the individual pages from all the documents will be displayed in the sidebar.

In addition, Apple added a new metaphor in Preview: a multi-page PDF is now displayed in the sidebar to look like a comb-bound book. (Preview lets you 'close' the book and reduce the display to just the first page.) You can add pages to a multi-page PDF by dragging them into the sidebar, either into an open or closed book. As we did in the past, we can control the order of the pages by paying attention to where the insertion bar appears. Preview highlights an outline around the sidebar image to let you know you're adding pages to the PDF.

The trick to combining single-page documents in Preview is to know that when you drag a page into the sidebar, Preview assumes you want to combine the pages in one window. It doesn't combine the pages into one document, and displays the insertion bar only to indicate the order of the individual documents in the sidebar.

Instead of trying to drag a page before or after a single page, you now have to drag the page on top of the other page in the sidebar. Preview will then change the page image in the sidebar to the bound book (multi-page PDF) icon. You can then rearrange the pages in the PDF in the order you want.

What's neat is that you can combine any kind of document that Preview can open. Once combined, they can only be saved as a multi-page PDF.

from: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? ... 5223224601

[djsynchro]

There's an iAPP from the iSTORE called iAMGAY I heard it's really good.

[steko]

Ik zal niet kopen deze Langspeelplaten, het is bekrast!

[Homebelly]

There's an iAPP from the iSTORE called iAMGAY I heard it's really good.

Let us know how that works out for ya.

[gjm]

iWorks pages will do it.

Opening .pdf's is not supported in pages 09

off now to check out preview.

[gjm]

iWorks pages will do it.

Opening .pdf's is not supported in pages 09

off now to check out preview.

lol, so even though the pages manual clearly states that it can only open .txt, .rtf & rtfd, .cwk and .doc file formats made in other applications, it turns out you can just drag a .pdf from the finder straight into a pages document. Cool thing is that you can use Preview to crop what you want out of several documents >save, then simply drag each of the cropped items into the Pages project. You can then resize them and rearrange them on the page and then add additional text. I'm sorted. Pages for the win. Thanks Homebelly.