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- Combine - JPG files in Acrobat 8 Pro does not work. How to solve it?

Asked by: unrinoceronte

Hi, when i use Acrobat 7.0.0 Pro i can select various jpg files and combine them into one PDF document, but in another computer where i have Acrobat 8.1.0 Pro, i can NOT do it... Does anyone knows why is this happening?  did Adobe changed this? or is it a bug on the version?, or am i doing something wrong...

Somewhere i read that if i am using Acrobat 8 i have to first save the JPG files to PDF format from the application i made the JPF file.... But doing that to say a 100 files is too much time consuming... of course there is also the Batch automated option in photoshop, but, i want to know why in version 7 i can do it, but now in version 8 i cant?

thanks for your help

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Answers

 

by: khkremerPosted on 2009-10-25 at 08:03:59ID: 25656814

Have you tried the create PDF from multiple files function - you can find that under the File menu?

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-10-25 at 10:45:10ID: 25657422

Yes Khkremer, i have tried that, and JPG dont seem to work, i can not ADD them....

 

by: khkremerPosted on 2009-10-25 at 11:44:15ID: 25657620

Are you using Acrobat on Windows or Mac?

 

by: cj_1969Posted on 2009-10-26 at 06:44:57ID: 25662138

Have you checked for an import function?
See if you can import the images into the document as oppsed to creating a document from the images.

 

by: khkremerPosted on 2009-10-26 at 09:42:53ID: 25664114

I've just tried the "from multiple files" option on Acrobat 8 Pro running on a Mac and a PC, and I can select JPEG files. Combining the files also works.
What exactly are the symptoms you are seeing? Are you sure that the files are valid JPEG files? What are the filenames of some of these JPEG files (name and extension)?

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-11-09 at 07:32:25ID: 25776744

Wow, i forgot absoultely about this question, i am sorry for such a delayon my response.

@ khkremer: I am using acrobat on Windows XP Pro SP2.

The symptoms i am seein is that when i choose COMBINE FILES, and then select the ADD FILES Buuton, I can select the JPGs, but then i press the add files in the dialog box, and they DO NOT appear on the COMBINE FILES Window, and i can not select the NEXT button...

The names of the files are for example:
car,jpg
house.jpg
toy.jpg

I can use these same files on Acrobat 7 in another computer, but in acrobat 8 i cant...

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-11-09 at 07:41:37ID: 25776843

The only thing that seems to work is to convert those files with another software into individual PDFs, and then i CAN Add them and combine them...

@ cj 1969: after i combine the pdfs, and made a single PDF file with the 3 images (car, house, toy), i tried to INSERT PAGES, and when i selected one of the JPGs files, an error occured, saying "BAD PARAMETER" " could not open the file car.jpg"

is very strange...  And looking around on the internet, it seems that this newer versions can not use JPGs, is something that has happen to many people i have read... is strange that you where able to make it. (khkremer)  I also used the "from multiple files" and nothing...

Well maybe what i will keep doing is saivng evrything as individual pdfs, and them combining them

Thanks for your interests cj 1969 and khkremer

 

by: khkremerPosted on 2009-11-09 at 12:29:17ID: 25779683

Inserting pages will not work with JPG files - it only supports PDF files.

Would you be able to share one of these JPG files with us? I suspect that there is something different about how the JPG file were created, and Acrobat might "look into" these file to verify that it indeed can process them. Here is what I did: I selected a PDF file with multiple pages, then I selected to "Save As" and picked JPEG as the format. This created one JPG file per PDF page. I then selected those files and tried to combine them. That worked - maybe because Acrobat writes JPG file in the same format that it also likes when importing?

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-11-10 at 13:46:04ID: 25790239

Is strange, i tried with jpgs that i created in photoshop, and also jpgs that i just saved from the internet...

Acrobat 7 allows inserting pages in jpgs...Why is it that now version 8  cant?

here they are:

 

by: khkremerPosted on 2009-11-11 at 13:59:56ID: 25799581

Unfortunately my machine that has Acrobat 8 installed did not survive the last round of Microsoft updates. I'm trying to revive it. Once it's working again, I will let you know what I find out about these files.

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-11-13 at 05:01:10ID: 25813523

thanks khkremer! good luck with your pc.

 

by: unrinocerontePosted on 2009-11-30 at 22:15:16ID: 31643174

Not 100% the solution that i was looking for, but your suggestions helped indeed.

than you

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