Combine PDFs in a catalog printed to PDF
Catalogs are big and change often. Update prices and descriptions in place, swap product photos, and compress the result for email. If it was printed with Microsoft Print to PDF, the text may be drawn shapes. MythosPDF recovers it first, then you combine PDFs as usual.
How to do it
- 1.Drop your Microsoft Print to PDF file into MythosPDF. Drawn letters are turned back into text in a few seconds.
- 2.Add the files and put them in order.
- 3.Download the combined PDF.
What people change in a catalog
- • Prices
- • Product names and codes
- • Product photos
- • Availability notes
- • Order contact details
What that means when you combine PDFs
- • Page tools work on the printout as it is; no text recovery is needed.
How Microsoft Print to PDF writes the PDF
- • Depending on the app and the fonts, Microsoft Print to PDF either embeds the fonts or draws every letter as a filled shape.
- • When letters are drawn as shapes, the PDF has no text at all: you cannot select, copy or search anything on the page.
- • Letters are placed one at a time in printer units, inside a flipped page transform.
- • Thin letters such as l, i and I, and the dots of punctuation, are often collected from many lines into one shape drawn later.
Questions people ask
+Is quality reduced?
No. Pages are combined as they are.
+Why can't I select text in my Microsoft Print to PDF file?
The driver often draws every letter as a shape instead of writing text. MythosPDF reads those shapes and turns them back into real text before you edit.
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