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From: Mike on 29 Mar 2010 21:12
I had seen a couple of posts, don't remember if they were here or other
Mac sites about difficulties with merging pdf files under Preview and
10.6. I just tried it after updating to 10.6.3 and had a terrible time.
I followed the instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4075 to the
letter.

Pages would appear in my merged pdf when dragged in but not after
saving, sometimes pages would be duplicated - too many aberrations to
recount. All this with 4 simple pages (pdf) saved from an online news
site using print to pdf. I finally booted to my 10.5 drive - done in
about 90 seconds - no muss, no fuss.
From: Scott Lowe on 30 Mar 2010 00:18
On 2010-03-29 21:12:16 -0400, Mike said:

> I had seen a couple of posts, don't remember if they were here or other
> Mac sites about difficulties with merging pdf files under Preview and
> 10.6. I just tried it after updating to 10.6.3 and had a terrible time.
> I followed the instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4075 to the
> letter.
>
> Pages would appear in my merged pdf when dragged in but not after
> saving, sometimes pages would be duplicated - too many aberrations to
> recount. All this with 4 simple pages (pdf) saved from an online news
> site using print to pdf. I finally booted to my 10.5 drive - done in
> about 90 seconds - no muss, no fuss.


This is not necessarily pertinent to your original question, but I have
had some level of success using an Automator workflow (containing the
Combine PDF Pages action) to combine PDF files.

--
Scott
http://blog.scottlowe.org

From: Mike on 30 Mar 2010 12:35
In article <81dccuFu06U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Scott Lowe <scottDOTloweAT(a)scottloweDOT.org> wrote:

> This is not necessarily pertinent to your original question, but I have
> had some level of success using an Automator workflow (containing the
> Combine PDF Pages action) to combine PDF files.

Thanks for your advice Scott. Next time I need to merge pdfs I'll try
that.

As much as anything, for me this illustrates that one shouldn't throw
out an old system (10.5) foe the new until it's clear that everything
needed still works. After 25 with computers I'm still having "If it
ain't broke don't fix it" pounded in my head.
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