Retro_Link Posted July 21, 2010 Posted July 21, 2010 OK N-E, I have 40+ Photoshop PDF files of work that I would like to combine into a single file to be able to send out to people online. Now in the past I've simply used Adobe Acrobat Pro 9, but I've since used up that 1 months free trial and would now need to buy it, which is rediculously priced and I'm not gonna do... help! What program do people use/should I be using... because surely the vast majority can't afford to buy Adobe for such a basic task. Also the pages as they stand add up to 30+mb, which is obviously too big to email over hotmails 10mb limit. What are the most effective ways of reducing file sizes... or reducing the size of the combined pdf. ithankyou.
Emasher Posted July 21, 2010 Posted July 21, 2010 A quick google search turned up this: http://www.mergepdf.net/
Retro_Link Posted July 21, 2010 Author Posted July 21, 2010 (edited) A quick google search turned up this: http://www.mergepdf.net/ Yeah but with that program and a number of other online programs, you can only upload a maximum of 10 individual files to it. EDIT: hmm ok, so I might be able to get round it by combining, combined files... Edited July 21, 2010 by Retro_Link
Sméagol Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 What do the PDF files represent? Are they all single page, or multiple page? Are they the same size? If for example they're al just single images, you should convert them to an image file and put those in a pdf. But I assume they're not and you'd figure that one out on your own. I haven't used the program myself yet, so I don't know if it does what you want, but I installed [scribus], a free (= opensource, but also "really" free) dtp program, as an alternative to an Adobe Indesign which I can't afford, for when I'd need such a program. Also, Hotmail's filesize limit for attachments isn't 10 MB anymore, it's 10 GB total now, although I'm not sure this also means you can upload a single 10 GB file, but I think you could upload a combined pdf file even "as is".
Cube Posted July 31, 2010 Posted July 31, 2010 I'm not sure what the quality would be like, but you could try pasting it all into Word then using a PDF printer (there are a few free ones).
Retro_Link Posted July 31, 2010 Author Posted July 31, 2010 Thanks for the help guys, but I got away with using mergepdf. I did have to save all the photoshop pages on the very lowest quality to get the combined file size under 10mb, but they still look good enough! Thanks!!
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