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Best fucking discovery since milfhunter.com 5 years ago. I can't even image how many hundreds of hours I've spent building In-Design documents for contracts, bids, creative breifs etc..I could never find a better way to create multi page PDF's........until now.
PDF Lab lets your grab a bunch of PDF's, click "Create" and it combines them to form a multipage document. Fucking fantastic....just thought I'd share the love.:yourock:
So does File -> Create PDF -> From Multiple Files in Acrobat.
God I hate what Adobe passes off as PDF software... the most resoruce intensive buggy crashprone pieces of rat droppings...
so does pushing the save as pdf button in open office.
I don't use open office but I'm always looking for a more efficient way to do things. So you're saying that in OO I can grab 5 different PDF's from my desktop drag and drop them soemwhere and click save as pdf to have them copiled into a multi page PDF?Quote:
Originally Posted by fez
Or use Corel's Word Perfect or Office X3 packages which all have a publish button supporting- .pdf, .html, .xml included.
never tried that, so i cant say for sure. i doubt it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by TyWebb
I know you can do it with word documents or open office documents.
I thought you were talking about generating pdfs from other types of documents.
Thats what I thought you meant...the value that I see in this little app is the ability to grab a bunch of PDF's (.ai docs, screen shots, text docs etc...) drag and drop them into this app, click create and have those 5 individual PDF's formed into a single 5 page PDF. Helps me a lot when getting design proofs from multiple in-house designers that all pertain to the same project and need to be emailed to a single client.Quote:
Originally Posted by fez
... and me when I'm trying to assemble my exhibits for a filing.
If you use full Acrobat (notwithstanding Summit's denigration thereof), you have this functionality already.
Yea, I've used Acrobat, but with the $500 price tag and the fact that In-Design was in the CS anyway, I just battled with that. If I hadn't found this app, I would be on my way to a full Acrobat as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by alpinedad
Forgive my ignorance on this, but how is this different from the Print to PDF functionality that's been built into OS X since 10.0? Perhaps you're talking about merging several different documents into one PDF?
Yea, you answered your own question....you can print to PDF in OS X like you mentioned, but this allows you to merge many individual PDF documents in to a single multi-page PDF without having to use Acrobat or In-Design to do so. You just drag and drop as many individual pdf docs into this app as you want and click create. It lines them up and outputs one doc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Arty50
Dear god, I had to do a pdf document last week with a bunch of form fields in it. Talk about an alignment nightmare. Yuck! I'm a god damn engineer, they should know that I can't make anything look pretty (I mean, just look at my appearance and demeanor)
You can align form fields in Acrobat. My trick, though, is to click/alt/shift/drag, so that I'm copying existing fields and constraining movement to right angles. Then I change the name.