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Printing to PDF is a widely available option these days, and it's been made even easier with OS support across most platforms and even on mobile. So while making a PDF out of a Word document or making a combination of documents is quite easy, what if you have a bunch of scanned pages in JPG format that you want to combine into a single PDF to be shared with someone else?Accomplishing this is going to be a bit easier if you are on because Microsoft has added this ability as a native feature to its latest operating system. However, we'll also be recommending some third party tools that can get the job done on older versions of Windows. Along with being a quick way to share a bunch of images in a convenient format, the feature is crucial for merging document scans or slides into a single file.Speaking of which, Microsoft's own app which is available free of charge on Android and iOS essentially turns your smartphone into a portable scanner that can capture documents, business cards, receipts, whiteboards, and so on.
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We came away with a good impression after using the app recently to send a bunch of signed paperwork, after which we used Window's 10 integrated feature to combine them all. Combining many images into a single PDF on Windows 10Instead of boring you with the images of our paperwork (which is the most common use case here), we'll be sampling a few of our favorite images from around TechSpot over the years (three of which TS editor Shawn Knight took himself).For those who are interested, the images are from our last year and Shawn's guide on.The process we'll be going through will work with any compatible image format, again, including scans, slides, and so forth. Before advancing, make sure your images are named in the order that you want them to appear in the PDF.If you aren't working with scans then you may have to rename some files (adding 1, 2, 3 etc. To the start of the file names seems like the quickest way). In the event that it makes your job any easier, here's a pro tip from our list of:Rename files sequentially in WindowsYou don't need to download any programs to perform a batch file rename.
Instead, you can select all the files you want to change, right-click the first one in the list, select rename (or use F2), and type in the name. Combining many images into a single PDF on Windows 8, 7 and olderIf you attempt that process on Windows 8 or earlier without installing a third party tool, Windows itself will only provide the ability to save as an XPS or OpenXPS Document, not PDF. That being the case, we've included a list of the top five PDF file creators from our download section, the first two of which seem unanimously approved. Working with any of these utilities should be straightforward, particularly so if you happened to have read the Windows 10 section, but we'll summarize the process again.First download and install one of those programs to add a PDF print driver to Windows (note. We tested PDFCreator on Windows 8 and 10, though we'd stick with the latter's integrated function unless there's a specific reason not to):Make sure your images are in a single folder and that the files are named so they are in the order you want them to appear in the PDF.
Select all of the files, right click the first one and hit Print which will open a prompt with options including a dropdown list of printer devices where you should find the newly installed PDF tool. After that's selected, you can print the PDF.Alternatively, you can launch PDFCreator itself and follow its GUI.Of note, we couldn't tell a difference between the image quality of Windows 10's native PDF print option and the file created by PDFCreator with its highest image quality setting.If anything, the integrated tool performed better overall.
It was a little faster at file creation, its output file was much smaller (10MB vs 60MB) and it got the image orientation right by default (PDFCreator's output had our landscape images in portrait). That can be fixed with a click or two of course but it seemed worth noting since most folks are likely to click through without changing any settings. More Great Tech Tips.
It’s absolutely frustrating when you set out on a task that seems like it should work, and then wind up wondering if it’s your fault. This is the case with Photos 3.0 for macOS and its broken workflow for creating slideshows: it sorts images and videos in random order.Macworld reader Marie is one of the people who cannot figure out what’s going wrong. She asks, rightly in all caps, “HOW CAN I GET MY SLIDESHOW PHOTOS IN THE ORDER I WANT THEM?”In previous releases and in iPhoto, you’d follow these steps:. Select some items or have no items selected while viewing a regular or smart album to select the whole album.
Create a slideshow. In Photos, that’s File Create Slideshow. An entry is created in the Projects list with the name you choose. And, hurray, the pictures and movies would be referenced in a slideshow view in the order they appeared in the album.Photos 3.0 inexplicably broke this arrangement, and it’s remained broken since its introduction in High Sierra in 2017. Until Apple fixes this issue—perhaps in the release of Photos with the upcoming Mojave?—you have a few workarounds, none of which are quite as ideal, but all of which retain the order in which you organized your media.
(Update: Mojave didn’t fix it, either.)Manually sort the slideshow. After creating a slideshow, you can use the thumbnails at the bottom to re-arrange media into the order you want.
This is tedious and unnecessary, but lets you use all the slideshow features.Use the Slideshow feature in any view. This feature isn’t always apparent, but you can create an ad hoc slideshow by selecting any set of images in any view and Control-clicking. Then select Play Slideshow. In an album, you can also click the Slideshow link at top.
You don’t get all the controls and options in a separate slideshow Project, but you can pick a theme and music. IDGiMovie is an option to create a slideshow, albeit as a fixed movie.Use iMovie. While it’s convenient and fast to create a slideshow within Photos, you can have more options and avoid the need to re-arrange images and videos by using iMovie, which preserves the sort order in your albums when you import. It could be overkill, but you can get by with the basics or push up the pizzazz factor, then export as a movie. (.) Ask Mac 911We’ve compiled a list of the questions we get asked most frequently along with answers and links to columns: to see if your question is covered. If not, we’re always looking for new problems to solve!
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