Word 2007: question on pdf documents

[Daniel]

Hi everybody,

2 things:
1/
Is it possible to combine multiple pdf documents (not necessarily created
with Word 2007) into one single pdf document, using Word 2007 ? Let's say I
have 3 pdf documents, "book1", "book2" and "book3", I'd like to concatenate
(is that an English verb?) them into one "completeBook" pdf file.

2/
Occasionally I have to create pdf documents and edit them (delete, reorder
pages, insert pages from other pdf documents, etc.). Can one do this with
Word 2007?

Until now I was using an old version of Acrobat on onother computer.

Is there an alternative to this very costly Acrobat package, (a free or
shareware, easy to use, foolproof...)?

many thanks in advance for your kind help and advice.
with Brgds
Daniel

 

[Graham Mayor]

The answer to both is no. PDF is intended as a finished graphical
representation of the document. It is not intended to be edited. You should
save the original Word documents, edit those and recreate the PDFs - which
Word 2007 will do, given the addition of the PDF creation plug-in.

I know of no free PDF creation tools that offer any more functionality than
Word 2007's plug-in. Whether thare are cheaper applications than Acrobat
(you'll need Version 8+ for full compatibility with 2007) that allow at
least some of Acrobat's functions e.g. to combine PDFs, I do not know - have
a dig around at Google.

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[Terry Farrell]

Concatenate is a good English word meaning to link or string things
together.

Word 2007 is capable of saving documents as PDF: but this is one way only.
In order to make changes to the PDF concatenated document, you would need
the original concatenated Word document for editing so as to save as a new
concatenated PDF.

Obviously, if you have Acrobat Professional, it will let you convert PDF
back to Word - but then Acrobat will reorder the pages natively anyway.

 

[Robert]

Until now I was using an old version of Acrobat on onother computer.

Is there an alternative to this very costly Acrobat package, (a free or
shareware, easy to use, foolproof...)?

Have a look at http://www.magicpdf.com/compare.html ($49.95)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If Daniel just wants to compile the documents into a single file (without
"editing"), can this not be done in Word 2007? It certainly can be done in
Acrobat.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

PrimoPDF, a free program, will allow you to append one .pdf file with
others.

 

[Daniel]

Many Thanks Robert.

For your kind info, since I posted, I also found PDFill PDF Editor and
Tools.
Installed it and tried it. Although basic and limited, it worked fine. The
PDF Tools utility is free, the PDF Editor part is approx $30.00.

Brgds,
Daniel

 

[Daniel]

Many Thanks JoAnn.

Since I posted my query, I also found PDFill PDF Editor and Tools.
I Installed it and tried it. Although basic and somehow limited, it worked
fine. The PDF Tools utility is free, so is the PDF ImageWriter utility. The
PDF Editor part is approx $30.00.

I will now try PrimoPDF.
thks again,
Brgds,
Daniel

PrimoPDF, a free program, will allow you to append one .pdf file with
others.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Hi everybody,

2 things:
1/
Is it possible to combine multiple pdf documents (not necessarily created
with Word 2007) into one single pdf document, using Word 2007 ? Let's say
I have 3 pdf documents, "book1", "book2" and "book3", I'd like to
concatenate (is that an English verb?) them into one "completeBook" pdf
file.

2/
Occasionally I have to create pdf documents and edit them (delete,
reorder pages, insert pages from other pdf documents, etc.). Can one do
this with Word 2007?

Until now I was using an old version of Acrobat on onother computer.

Is there an alternative to this very costly Acrobat package, (a free or
shareware, easy to use, foolproof...)?

many thanks in advance for your kind help and advice.
with Brgds
Daniel