How to Merge Multiple PDF Pages into a Single Page Online

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2 min readOct 10, 2023

Useful for Creating Large GoodNotes Templates

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I just spent more than an hour trying to do something I thought would be very easy to do: combine different pages of a PDF document into a single page.

For all you people who want to cut to the chase here it is: go to the pages merger at PDFdu.com, upload a PDF file with multiple pages in it, and choose among the options available for stitching the pages together. Click “Merge pages”, then click “Download File”, and you’re set.

If you have pages with patterns all the way to the borders, the stitching at the border of the pages isn’t perfect, but if it’s just whitespace then it is pretty much perfect.

Now, let me go a little slower because the use case I had may be useful to other people.

The Backstory

I use an app called GoodNotes to write with on my iPad. You can choose from different templates which emulate papers of different kinds and sizes. I needed a larger template than the ones available and their recommendation was to generate a pdf of the template I wanted in whatever size I wanted and then to import it into GoodNotes.

I googled and basically tried maybe 15 or 20 different online PDF merge tools. All of them except maybe two were…

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