Reply With QuoteWe use adobe pro dc to do similar things in preparing electronic trial bundles for court. Think it is £170ish for the year but you can just pay for a month at a higher pro rata cost.
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I would appreciate some advice regarding a specific software need. (Win PC software only, ie not Mac)
I have to produce a number of project specific PDF documents which will generally contain 30-50 A4 sheets as a single PDF document. The single (final) PDF will be formed of numerous 2-3 page documents, some of which will be 'printed to PDF' directly from software we use and others will be hand written scans of A4 sheets. I need to merge these smaller electronic/scanned PDFs into a single PDF and ideally manipulate the page order of them too.
Ideally the final PDF size should be small enough to email.
I assume this is straight forward enough to do, but find the numerous Adobe offerings an absolute minefield and don't know where to start, from the limited work I have done within the free version of Adobe I have found it not particularly user friendly either - but maybe that is just because I am not using the software often enough...
Any advice/recommendations appreciated.
It doesnt need to be free.
It does NOT need lots of bells and whistles.
It would be great if it were straight forward to use (and had plenty of online tutorials too).
TIA
Last edited by Maysie; 14th April 2022 at 14:49.
We use adobe pro dc to do similar things in preparing electronic trial bundles for court. Think it is £170ish for the year but you can just pay for a month at a higher pro rata cost.
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Used this loads of times, PDFill Free PDF tools, it’s fantastic, it will do what you want and so much more; merging, splitting, removing, numbering, etc. it’s a bit clunky but works well.
https://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html
Avoid any web based solutions unless you are happy uploading you docs to random websites!
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If you want tutorials on using it you could do worse than looking at how to prepare a trial bundle. A few barristers chambers have put out guides on their websites.
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I use www.combinepdf.com
If you have a Mac I think you should be able to do this free in the app Preview which is preinstalled on every mac.
I use Kofax Power PDF Advanced. Does everything you've asked for plus lots of other functionality too.
Unsure of cost though as it's a work programme.
Sorry, I should have said. Win based PC options only!Originally Posted by wileeeeeey
The full version of Acrobat allows it, not The free Acrobat reader.
^^^^THIS!
Excellent software!
If you’re not paying I’d get Acrobat.
This is a good free tool I've used, so I agree.
I've also used smallpdf.com for editing needs
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Foxit PDF is free and good - https://www.foxit.com/
Does Foxit do that? It is just a reader for me. I have a 'save as .pdf' right click option but that is so basic that it will save a page that is beyond the acceptable spec and cannot be opened or read and it does not allow you to add a page break to the mess that it created...
Yes, my software is called Foxit PhantomPDF and has a “combine files” on the “convert” tab.
It’s a pretty full featured PDF management tool.
I use Foxit. Not the free one though. As good as Adobe.
https://pdfsam.org/ is a good option
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