PDF Combining Tool

PDF Combining Tool is a combining tool for combining multiple PDF files to one PDF. You can get three different version programs of it for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The commands, options and arguments of the program for the three systems are the same.

If a PDF document is completed by many different people separately, you may have to combine these PDF files to one PDF at last. And PDF Combining Tool is what you need.

The following paragraphs are about the usage of PDF Combining Tool in combining PDF files in Mac OS X.

This program is free for trial, and you can download and use it for free. The downloaded file is a disk image in DMG format, and you can mount it to your Mac OS system or unpack it to a directory. In directory bin, there is the executable file pdftoolbox. You can run this program by a terminal.

A basic usage of the program is

pdftoolbox <input files> [options] <-outfile output>

You can specify one or more PDF files within input files, and specify the output file name within output. The options are for using options in specific operations. Note that the filed input files supports using labels to indicate the input files, and you will learn it in the following example.

This is an example of combining three PDF files into one PDF file.

pdftoolbox A=in1.pdf B=in2.pdf C=in3.pdf -merge A B2-end C -outfile out.pdf

In the command line, A, B and C indicate the first, second and the last input file, respectively. B2-end means that only pages from the second to the last page of file B (in2.pdf) will be retained in the new merged PDF out.pdf. All pages of file A and C will be merged to file out.pdf.

To learn more options of VeryPDF PDF Combining Tool, please input the command pdftoolbox without any option or argument, then the manual will be displayed in the terminal. Shell scripts in directory test are examples for all options of the program.

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