Creating a single multi-page PDF file turns out to be... hard...

Hello world!  We are a small company and we try to do our monthly billing.  We have four distinct (empty) State Agency bills that we contract, and we got them all filled out and ready to save as PDF.

We want to create a single PDF file that includes all four completed pages.  When combine us them into a single PDF in Acrobat, it processes the information from the first page and any information on the other three pages, replacing all the original information.  We have not even a warning us saying that this will happen, so that we know what happens deliberately.  Why?

As a solution to this problem very strange and unstoppable, we tried to create a '' portfolio '' with all four sides.  But there is apparently no way to then save these four pages in PDF regular and unique.  We can save it as a PDF Portfolio and that they are beautiful, but we do not know if the Agency has the ability to view the PDF Portfolio.  We have tried to look at one of these PDF portfolio with the standard Acrobat Reader and that the software won't load even.  Google Chrome also not opens it, recommending that get us Acrobat Reader CC.

It has also been suggested that we try an online program called Pdfmerge.  Pdfmerge merge all of our documents into a single PDF file, which is excellent!  But when you try to display it on any other program, you'll find that all fields on all pages except the first page... empty...

We want to just ordinary, standard, simple PDFs here, with several pages.  My research on that led me to the conclusion that I'm not the only one frustrated by the lack of simplicity to do something so... simple.

Why the program would tell us, ' well, since all the fields on all of these pages are the same, we have decided to take all the info from the first page, delete all your other pages and then basically to create copies of the page one. " While never, EVER would be a necessary thing or practice?  «I need to create a PDF file with 50 pages, all the same exact page.»


Help out me here!

It happens because your bills contain form fields and fields with the same name in a single file will always be the same value.

The solution is to flatten the files before their merger, converting the fields in the form of static content.

If you have Acrobat Pro, then you can do it by using a simple gesture. Otherwise, you will need to do each file separately.

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