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michaelg30063033
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September 4, 2018
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Print/Export to Adobe Acrobat without saving first

  • September 4, 2018
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Often times I have multiple sources of information that I want to combine into one PDF.  For example, I'll have an Excel Spreadsheet, a JPG image, and 3 webpages that I need to combine into one PDF.  It's seriously management intensive to save all 5 items as files just to go into Acrobat and combine them into 1.  Then I have to go and delete the other 5 files to keep the clutter down.

I would like to have them print or export to Acrobat as a temporary item.  Then I could combine them as I saw fit.  And, if I chose to save one of them as an individual file, I could do it at that time.

Is there a way to do this?

Thank you

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gary_sc
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gary_scCommunity Expert
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September 4, 2018

Hi Michaelg,

Not fully sure what you want. For example, I hate dead space when I print (it wastes paper) so if I can tighten up the content I'm much happier although that is harder to do with PDFs than other kinds of documents.

However, if all you want is all of the items in a  single PDF, that shouldn't be too hard but there will be some level of management required.

If you first go and create each of the individual items as PDFs, the simple thing after that is to place them in a folder (only for easy, quick access, nothing special otherwise) and create PDF from files as shown below in the screenshot.

Once you've selected that if you click on the  "+" icon on the top you have a bunch of options as to how you select the files you want to join:

I think this might be the easiest way for you to do this but I'm not sure it's as easy as you'd like. Admittedly it would be great if you could just copy and paste things away, and while there are some ways you can do that*, this might be the easiest of all.

* Create a blank document and paste things in there. This might work for individual objects but would not work for things like web pages.

michaelg30063033
michaelg30063033Author
Participant
September 4, 2018

Thanks for the reply.

The saving PDFs and then combining them is the step I'd like to avoid.  Before I subscribed to Adobe's new Acrobat service I used a third party PDF creator call PDF24.  I could print an item and it would open in the PDF24 app waiting for me to do something with it.  I could save it, rearrange pages, change orientation, etc.  So, I would print my 5 different items, grab the pages I wanted from each printout, and then save a single PDF and discard the rest.

I'm not promoting another product.  I would much rather use Acrobat for lots of reasons.  This one thing is kind of annoying though.  I shouldn't have to save the PDF before I get a chance to manipulate it.

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    ERIKA24089063b0wo
    Participant
    April 18, 2022

    I see your question is very old but I have the same one.  I used to use pdfcreator as a printer, which was amazing becuase you could select a wait/hold option and just keep printing items from all different sources and then at the end combine and print as a pdf.  I no longer have access to this at work and it's extremely frustrating to have to save all the docs and then combine the files.  So time consuming.  I'm wondering if you found a workaround or another way to do this?  I am somewhat limited as I cannot change a lot of settings due to work restrictions but would love any suggestions.  Thanks!

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