partofus.org Mac-Tests » OS X http://mac.partofus.org/macpress Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:26:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc Tools to merge/split PDF files http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/2008/10/12/tools-to-mergesplit-pdf-files/ http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/2008/10/12/tools-to-mergesplit-pdf-files/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:41:48 +0000 Christoph Erdle http://mac.partofus.org/macpress/?p=111 Today I had to combine twi PDF files into one. A quick search on MacUpdate revealed the following tools:

  • joinpdf (command line tool, different GUIs included in the package) and Join PDFs (Apple Script GUI):
    because of the command line interface it could also be used in scripts, can merge and split files, but also extract pages from PDFs, Java
  • PDFLab:
    I couldn’t get it to run properly on OS X Leopard, the application crashed immediately after adding a PDF file, last update January 2007
  • PDFsam (PDF Split and Merge)
    Java, GUI not in OS X stile, but functional, output format can be choosen from PDF version 1.5 (Acrobat 5) up to 1.7 (Acrobat 8)
  • Combine PDFs
    uses only OS X provided CoreGraphics libraries, no Java involved, typical Mac GUI, can only merge but not split PDFs

I recomend to use Combine PDFs if you only want to quickly merge files as it’s the easiest one of the above to use (drag & drop), if you also want to split documents you should use PDFsam.

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