Hint: Combining PDFs

[Bruce De Benedictis]

If you, like me, sometimes wish to combine different forms so that they can
be printed by a duplexing printer, I stumbled onto a little trick for
printing several different documents to one PDF file. It requires another
application for combining PDFs. I use PDFLab,
http://www.iconus.ch/fabien/pdflab/
which is freeware, but there are others. Once you have installed it, select
Print from any application, press the PDF button and select Edit Menu. Then
press the "+" button and navigate to the application and select it.

Then when you want to make your combined PDF, start with the first document,
and select PDFLab from the PDF button menu. The page will be sent to PDFLab.
Repeat this with all your pages, and then press the Make PDF button in
PDFLab, enter a filename and save it wherever you want.

Incidentally, this method of editing the PDF menu works for other
applications, like email clients, in case you want to attach a PDF to an
email and you are not using Mail. Also, the guy who does PDFLab wrote
CocoaBooklet, which I have mentioned before recently. It is another nice
freeware application, which can work through the PDF menu as well. Launching
it gives that option.

Bruce De Benedictis