Merge PDFs on a Mac

The Preview app allows Mac users to open a PDF document. Few people know that this app can also merge multiple PDFs. In this way you create one file from different PDFs. This is useful when, for example, you want to combine several parts of an association report or book.

Once the two PDF documents have been merged, save the document.

• Click on the menu bar at the top Archive > Export as PDF.
• Enter a file name behind ‘Save as’.
• Under ‘Location’, choose in which folder you want to save the file.
• click on Keep.

Here’s how to merge two PDFs on a Mac (from macOS 10.12):

• Double click on the PDF document. The Preview app shows the contents of the document. If the document does not open in Preview, locate the document on Finder > right click on the document > Open with > Preview.
• Click on the menu bar at the top Display > thumbnails.
• Every page of the current PDF document is visible in the left column.
• Locate the second PDF document in Finder.
• Left click on the second PDF document and hold down the mouse button.
• Drag the document onto the open PDF document. A green plus sign appears.
• Determine in the left column at which position you want to add the document. That way you ensure a logical order.
• Release the left mouse button. The contents of both PDF documents are now merged.