Here's the situation:
(Just for clarity's sake, when I refer to "documents" I'm speaking of existing .PDF files)
I have 12 of one type of document - it can actually be any quantity
call them a1 to a12.
Into each of these 12 pdf's I need to add an additional pdf document
call them b1 to b12, adding b1 to the end of a1, b2 to a2, and so forth.
In Acrobat 5, I could just open all 12 "a" documents, display them as tiles for easier navigation, and then drag and drop each "b" document onto its respective "a" document. Acrobat prompts where to add each dropped document (they always go at the end of the respective "a" document). No problem. When I've done the last "b into a" operation, I click "Window" then "Close All" and it prompts to save each changed document, then closes them all in turn. Voila. It was simple: drag-n-drop "b" onto "a" tell Acrobat to put it at the end, and go on to the next document.
Now, in Acrobat 8 (8.1.2 to be exact, Standard version) the following happens: I can open each "a" document & tile the view - no problem.
But, when I go to drag-n-drop the "b" documents into their respective "a" document Acrobat 8 wants to open the blasted thing like a new document, instead of the way it behaved in Acrobat 5!
How on earth can I get this to behave the same as it did in Acrobat 5, **without** having to fool around with tedious, time-consuming, inefficient menu selections and such??
I process literally *hundreds* of .PDF's like this every week, so I need to find a solution to this FAST, as I'm migrating to a new machine that has 8 Standard on it, and my machine with Acrobat 5 is going away!
Help help!!!
It still works the same way, although you use the Page panel to control the action. Like this:
Open your A files, and display the Page panel (it should be the top icon on the panels at the left).
Open your B files, and again display the Page panel.
Select the pages in the B file's Page panel, and drag to the end of the page thumbnails in the A file.
Once your files are done, you can still save and close them en masse.
donna.
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