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johngtatp
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April 13, 2020
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Creating One PDF from Multiple PDFs refreshable perhaps with a template

  • April 13, 2020
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I could really use the collective brain power out there because I am sure there is a good way to do this but I cant see how. 

I have 30 or so PDFs scattered in various folders that I need to assemble into one pdf. This is a compliance book of certificates and each pdf changes every six months or so not all at the same time (keep same file name and folder location). So, one document gets renewed and gets stored in its associated folder. I would like to have some sort of template to regenerate the one large pdf file from the many without having to re-select every single file again.

I thought Portfolio would work but it imports all the files into portfolio and does not refresh the files when the portfolio is opened for editing.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
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April 13, 2020

If the certificates will maintain the same page count, I would place them into InDesign, as each placed certificate gets updated, the combined InDesign file will also get updated (upon link update), then simply export to a new PDF. You can include a text variable at the bottom of a page that will stamp the modification date of the InDesign file on the exported PDF, or add live captions to the placed PDFs which can include the modification date, or other metadata from the PDFs.

try67
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try67Community Expert
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April 13, 2020

I have encountered the same situation in the past and created this (paid-for) tool that allows you to do it. You just need to create a text file that contains the paths of those files and then run the script from within Acrobat, select the file and it automatically generate a merged PDF with all of the files from the list.

You can find it here: http://try67.blogspot.com/2009/10/combine-pdf-files-from-text-list.html

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