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Combine PDF Files Without Adobe Acrobat
By Ted Peterson
It's pretty clear that PDF files are the new "must use" when it comes to document handling. Who
doesn't use a PDF nowadays? They are smaller than other similar files, can be viewed on Windows,
Linux and MAC, and anyone can protect their PDF files with encryption and password. Because of the
wide variety of free conversion tools available today, everybody can convert whatever files they want to
PDF.
Students use a large variety of operating systems on their computers. Teachers can make sure that
their courses will be viewed properly by converting them to PDF files. Universal deployment is maybe
the most important asset of PDF format.
Companies and business users can keep their internal documents as PDF files, benefiting from their
smaller size and making sure those files are read only by employees who know the password. PDF
security is another important feature that made the PDF format so popular.
Finally, home users are using PDF files because Adobe did a very smart thing: Adobe Acrobat Reader
is used only for viewing PDF files and is free. This way they made sure PDF format is available for
everybody.
After PDF files became widely used, some new needs appeared. Users wanted to extract only a
couple of pages from a PDF files. This could be done only by using dedicated software: a PDF splitter
tool. Also, somebody at one point wanted to combine two or more PDF documents into a single file.
They needed a PDF merger tool. Adobe made those tools, but they were not free. And because of their
branding