PDF How-To: Remove Pages, Reorder Pages, and Combine Mutiple Documents
I was recently helping a colleague prepare for a presentation that included a slideshow, but instead of using a PowerPoint presentation, our designer chose to make a PDF of the presentation. Using a PDF over a PowerPoint has a couple of advantages: The font doesn’t need to be installed on the client machine, so you can use a much wider variety of them, and pretty much any computer can open a PDF, so there’s no need to worry about software versions.
While rehearsing the presentation, however, it became apparent that we were going to need to reorder and remove pages from the document. Turns out this is a very easy procedure in Leopard.
Here’s how to edit PDFs using Preview (Preview is built into Leopard):
- Open your PDF with Preview. (It should default to open with Preview, but if not, right-click on the file and select Open With → Preview)
- You should now have a little drawer on the side of your PDF.
To manipulate the document:- Delete a page: Command + Delete
- Move a page: Click and hold on the page and drag to reorder
- Add another PDF: Drag the PDF into the sidebar
- When you’re done, make sure you save the document. File → Save As
A Third-Party (slightly more robust) Solution
Before I discovered this method I was using third-party software called Combine PDFs. Combine PDFs let me remove & reorder pages as well as combine multiple PDFs just like Preview, but it also let me add a simple password to protect my PDF files and apply different filters, including one that reduced the PDF size. Combine PDFs is free for the casual user; a license is only required if you use it regularly. Combine PDFs will allow you to test the functionality with processing up to 1,000 PDF pages, which should be fine for most users.
PDF How-To: Remove Pages, Reorder Pages, and Combine Mutiple Documents
I was recently helping a colleague prepare for a presentation that included a slideshow, but instead of using a PowerPoint presentation, our designer chose to make a PDF of the presentation. Using a PDF over a PowerPoint has a couple of advantages: The font doesn’t need to be installed on the client machine, so you can use a much wider variety of them, and pretty much any computer can open a PDF, so there’s no need to worry about software versions.
While rehearsing the presentation, however, it became apparent that we were going to need to reorder and remove pages from the document. Turns out this is a very easy procedure in Leopard.
Here’s how to edit PDFs using Preview (Preview is built into Leopard):
- Open your PDF with Preview. (It should default to open with Preview, but if not, right-click on the file and select Open With → Preview)
- You should now have a little drawer on the side of your PDF.
To manipulate the document:- Delete a page: Command + Delete
- Move a page: Click and hold on the page and drag to reorder
- Add another PDF: Drag the PDF into the sidebar
- When you’re done, make sure you save the document. File → Save As
A Third-Party (slightly more robust) Solution
Before I discovered this method I was using third-party software called Combine PDFs. Combine PDFs let me remove & reorder pages as well as combine multiple PDFs just like Preview, but it also let me add a simple password to protect my PDF files and apply different filters, including one that reduced the PDF size. Combine PDFs is free for the casual user; a license is only required if you use it regularly. Combine PDFs will allow you to test the functionality with processing up to 1,000 PDF pages, which should be fine for most users.
Ask TUAW: Return to open, messed up Mighty Mouse, PDF alternatives, Boot Camp expansion, and more
Filed under: Features, Troubleshooting, Ask TUAW
It’s time once again for Ask TUAW! For this round we take questions about cleaning a malfunctioning Mighty Mouse, opening files and applications with the return key, expanding a Boot Camp partition, finding alternatives to Adobe Acrobat, caring for your notebook battery, and more
As always, your suggestions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you’re running and which version of Mac OS X (we’ll assume you’re running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions!
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Adobe issues critical security alert for Acrobat and Reader
Adobe has identified a critical security vulnerability in all recent versions of Acrobat and Reader, the company’s software for creating and viewing files in portable document format, on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
A buffer overflow issue in versions 7, 8, and 9 of Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, as well as versions 7, 8, and 9 of the free Adobe Reader can cause crashing, and can also be exploited to take control of a users system. Adobe has received reports that exploits are already in the wild.
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Adobe issues critical security alert for Acrobat and Reader
Adobe has identified a critical security vulnerability in all recent versions of Acrobat and Reader, the company’s software for creating and viewing files in portable document format, on all platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
A buffer overflow issue in versions 7, 8, and 9 of Acrobat, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Pro Extended, as well as versions 7, 8, and 9 of the free Adobe Reader can cause crashing, and can also be exploited to take control of a users system. Adobe has received reports that exploits are already in the wild.
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Apple Universe Podcast #154 - Santa’s iPhone
In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Daniel shares news from prMac, MacRumors and more!
News:
- Dress up as Santa Claus with your iPhone
- Zevrix Introduces Automated PDF Output Solution for Microsoft Word
- <a target=”_blank” rel=”external nofollow” href=”http://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/10/apple-releases-firmware-updates-for-late-2008-portables/”Apple Releases Firmware Updates for ‘Late 2008′ Portables
- Latest Firefox 3.1 Beta Adds Multi-Touch Support
Review:
Cool Mac Pick with Sam Levin:
Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky
Associate Producer: Sean Blake
Length: 22:34
Sponsors:
- Drop.io - Simple Private Sharing
- iCultur - iCultur.com is a new and exciting environment on the Internet for everyone out there who loves to “think different”
- shinywhitebox - Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
- Skitch - The best screen capture program for the Mac!
If you would like to sponsor Apple Universe, contact the Sales team at sales@appleuniversepodcast.com.
Theme Music is provided by Daphna Kalfon. Apple Universe is a proud member of the Tech Podcast Network and the Teen Podcasters Network.
PDFpen 4 adds OCR and Word importing
Filed under: Software, Graphic Design
SmileOnMyMac has released a major update to PDFpen, their PDF editing software which we examined at a while back. PDFpen allows you to edit PDFs to fill out forms (e.g. scans of existing forms), mark-up documents, etc. The biggest new feature for version 4 is the inclusion of basic OCR functionality that will turn a scanned document into editable text. In addition there is support for new file formats including importing Microsoft Word documents.
PDFpen comes in two versions, a basic version for editing PDFs and a pro version that also allows you to create editable forms (i.e. forms that can be filled out by users with a PDF reader like Acrobat or Preview). PDFpen is $49.95 (or $99.95 for the pro version). Upgrades for to version 4 from previous version are $25. Demos for both standard and pro are available for download.
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PDFpen 4 adds OCR and Word importing
Filed under: Software, Graphic Design
SmileOnMyMac has released a major update to PDFpen, their PDF editing software which we examined at a while back. PDFpen allows you to edit PDFs to fill out forms (e.g. scans of existing forms), mark-up documents, etc. The biggest new feature for version 4 is the inclusion of basic OCR functionality that will turn a scanned document into editable text. In addition there is support for new file formats including importing Microsoft Word documents.
PDFpen comes in two versions, a basic version for editing PDFs and a pro version that also allows you to create editable forms (i.e. forms that can be filled out by users with a PDF reader like Acrobat or Preview). PDFpen is $49.95 (or $99.95 for the pro version). Upgrades for to version 4 from previous version are $25. Demos for both standard and pro are available for download.
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Back to School: Papers updated for the new term
Filed under: Software
TUAW’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students.
PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are 100 improvements. Top on the list is a new sharing feature called Papers Archives, which lets you share a PDF file and its associated metadata with a colleague.
Papers isn’t for everyone. Instead, it’s specifically designed for students and academics, particularly those who deal with a lot of scientific periodicals in the course of their research. It lets you search them, sort them (manually or using Smart Folders), find them on any one of 14 different online repositories, rate them, browse your library in tabs, and much more.
Papers costs $42 for a single-user license, but students qualify for a 40 per cent discount.
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Back to School: Papers updated for the new term
Filed under: Software
TUAW’s going Back to School! We’ll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for a timely app update useful for students.
PDF management app Papers has been bumped to version 1.8.5, bringing what the developers claim are 100 improvements. Top on the list is a new sharing feature called Papers Archives, which lets you share a PDF file and its associated metadata with a colleague.
Papers isn’t for everyone. Instead, it’s specifically designed for students and academics, particularly those who deal with a lot of scientific periodicals in the course of their research. It lets you search them, sort them (manually or using Smart Folders), find them on any one of 14 different online repositories, rate them, browse your library in tabs, and much more.
Papers costs $42 for a single-user license, but students qualify for a 40 per cent discount.
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