Combining PDF files into one attachment.

[UrbanMidwest]

Does anyone know how to do this without purchasing the entire Adobe suite?

For whatever reason I have to combine all of my transcripts into one PDF file no larger than 5MB. I have seven pages (three of which are legends/keys) of transcripts total.

Thanks in advance.

Edited December 18, 2015 by UrbanMidwest

[asurachm]

check this out:

http://smallpdf.com/merge-pdf

[rising_star]

There's a variety of free programs you can find on the Cnet downloads page which will do this. Small PDF is one option but there are many others. Just make sure whatever you use doesn't leave watermarks in your documents.

[UrbanMidwest]

Thanks for the suggestions. I used smallpdf.com and it worked perfectly fine - no watermarks.

Again, thank you. I appreciate the help.

Good luck to all.

[TakeruK]

Another suggestion for those who are using Mac: The "Preview" software does more than just shows you PDFs, you can also merge PDFs with it. If you open all the PDF files with Preview at once, you can use the "Thumbnails" pane on the left (you might have to activate it) to merge files. You can drag the PDFs onto each other to create a new file with pages from both PDFs and you can even "expand" the preview to move pages around and such. Just remember to save your new PDF (use Save As to avoid overwriting the file you dragged everything on).

[svent]

I would caution against using any online service for sensitive information like transcripts.

[rising_star]

Something like this could work if you don't want to use an online service: http://download.cnet.com/PDFill-Free-PDF-Tools/3000-18497_4-10435051.html or see here for additional resources: https://www.princeton.edu/~clusters/printless/pdf-manager.html

[Extra Espresso]

Another note: if you are currently enrolled in school, check if your university has Acrobat available for students to download. I didn't realize until this year that my school offers Acrobat for free to students because it was never advertised. 

[ms_green_genes]

If you have an all-in-one printer, you can print everything, scan it, and save as a multi-page PDF document.