{"id":2253,"date":"2019-06-29T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2019-07-14T21:18:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:18:05","slug":"splicing-and-merging-pdfs-with-pdfsam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/2253\/splicing-and-merging-pdfs-with-pdfsam\/","title":{"rendered":"Splicing and Merging PDF’s with PDFsam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today I talk about a new tool found to splice and merge PDF files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Why you might need to splice and merge PDF’s<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Depending how you produce your PDF’s you might need to tweak them slightly. My use case for this was when I made several PDF’s which needed to be merged into a single one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly the industry standard Adobe tooling requires a purchase for each individual feature. While the features are relatively expansive, I rarely work with PDF’s so I didn’t want to upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PDFsam to the rescue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the really nice features of PDFsam is that its basic version is open source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that their base product which features a large number of PDF editing tools is free to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This allowed me to modify and tweak the PDF’s before sending them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you need a free PDF tool which can split or merge PDF’s together I would recommend PDFsam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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