MacUpdate Promo
a deal a day on macintosh software
MacUpdate Promo
a deal a day on macintosh software
iCombiner is an indispensible tool when working with PDFs, images and scanned documents: it lets you easily merge the most popular image and document formats into a single PDF documents with just a drag and drop. With iCombiner you can merge images and documents by dragging them from Finder onto iCombiner's dock icon, as well as directly in Finder with the brand-new Finder plugin. iCombiner can merge the following file formats: PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, GIF, Postscript, EPS, Windows Bitmap, PSD, PICT, SGI and TGA. iCombiner supports merging multi-page TIFF, PDF and Postscript files. |
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 REQUIREMENTS Mac OS X 10.4 or later. 
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 | SF Coast Guy said 7/5 at 12:15am On Leopard, Preview already lets you do this -- and with a more intuitive interface. Just open the sidebar and drag thumbnails between documents. |   +28 |
| Rare said 7/5 at 12:15am Could be useful if you are still using Tiger, but Preview in Leopard does most of this. Maybe not all of the formats? I know Preview will handle PDF (of course), TIFF, PNG, JPG, BMP, and PICT. What value does this program add? | +5 |
| t5tr said 7/5 at 10:33am With iCombiner you can convert JPG, GIF, TIFF and PNG images to PDF, but to make a really searchable PDF it's better use YEP which has scan capability. | +3 |
| xnedwriter said 7/5 at 9:36pm I appreciate all the folks who - like Rare - do all the heavy lifting for those of us who don't have the time to test these promos out thoroughly. Thanks! | +2 |
| GrendelKhan said 7/5 at 9:48am PDFMergeX will do this for free. Works great and very intuitive (although they need to fix the text on one button and translate it into English). http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22948 | +2 |
| ajoerg said 7/5 at 8:11am For Tiger users: Have a look at PDFLab. It is freeware. | +2 |
| umijin said 7/5 at 11:01am Umm, as others have said - PDF Lab seems to do the same and is free. And it's a great app. | +1 |
| Destari said 7/5 at 12:17am Now that I see preview actually does this, I won't be buying a license. | +1 |
| rodio said 7/5 at 9:05pm I will compare this app to preview | 0 |
About MUPromo MacUpdate Promo provides a deal a day on Macintosh software; often 40% off. Most deals are offered for only 24-hours. Some promos may even run past 24-hours at a lesser discount on the extended sales page. |
Rare said 7/5 at 1:57am
I tested Preview with a few more formats. Preview (in Leopard) will view, and you can drag directly to the sidebar: PDF, TIFF, PNG, JPG, GIF, PostScript, EPS, BMP, and PICT. I did not have any PSD, SGI, or TGA files to test.
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Preview supports dragging multi-page PDFs to the sidebar. When I dragged a multi-page PostScript file to the sidebar, only the first page was added. However, double-clicking the PostScript file caused Preview to open it, which it did correctly, after which it was a simple matter to select all the pages and drag them to the desired PDF file. Preview didn't fare so well with a multi-page TIFF, showing only the first page either way.
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I also briefly tested iCombiner by dragging in a group of images of several different formats. The multi-page TIFF caused iCombiner to crash on a G4 Mac mini running Tiger; on a Mac Pro running Leopard it handled the file correctly.
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Other differences: Preview allows you to easily rearrange the pages within a PDF file by dragging them in the sidebar. iCombiner allows you to rearrange the documents that will be merged, but not individual pages within a document (however, that can be done with the free utility Combine PDFs). Also, iCombiner appears to keep the original size info for images, while Preview centers them on a new page the same size as the previous page in the file, reducing to fit if necessary.
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I don't know why I spent so much time evaluating this, but I learned a few things about Preview in the process. I hope it helps someone.