As a writer, I search, filter, sort, collect and manage writing materials everyday.
But my first time doing data gathering routines was back at elementary school.
At that time, my teacher asked us the students to collect newspaper clippings on articles that we like.
Just like in printed documents.
Here at MakeUseOf, we also choose PDF to publishour famous technology-related free guides.
PDFs are everywhere and we deal with this format (almost) everyday.
But we don’t always need all the information contained in one PDF.
Something like photocopying several pages from a thick hardcover dictionary for our writing materials.
On the opposite side, there are also times when the information we need comes from several different documents.
So we have to combine several pages from several different PDF documents.
That’s why we need the ability to dissect and assemble PDF files.
And for Mac users, the easiest way to do that is to use Preview.
I found the method by accident.
So I curiously dropped the page into Finder and - voila!
A new PDF file is created - consisting of the page that I dragged out from Preview.
If you don’t want any future confusion, you should rename the files related to the specific content.
Then I experimented some more.
There’s a new PDF file adorned with all the pages that I previously selected.
We should be able to assemble pages into a PDF file by dragging them in, shouldn’t we?
The arrow will appear when you hover your mouse pointer over it.
Hitsavewhen you’re done modifying your compilation.
Combine this features with the ability toannotate, and you’ll love Preview even more.
