One new feature is an “upload” box where you can drag and drop files (you can do that on the other tools by dragging onto the file upload dialog, but it isn’t obvious or pretty). Other features include re-ordering, duplicating, and deleting uploaded files. Each uploaded file turns into a thumbnail with the image of the first page and the name of the document. Each has a delete and clone button on top of it when you hover your mouse (or click on mobile).

There are other tools that merge PDFs. Adding this to the SuperTool suite of PDF image editing makes Supertool.com more of a comprehensive site. Also, it is pretty quick and fully featured so it has some benefits over other tools. Finally, SuperTools subscriptions are still some of the lowest priced and high value PDF editing suites available. Combined with the free programs you may have on you computer, SuperTool makes your PDF editing dreams come true! (Does anyone have PDF editing dreams?!!)

The purposes of combining PDFs include:

• expanding a report with new material
• combining two or more files to make something new
• duplicating the length of some files (often in new places to add consistency and spice)
• store multiple files together (often grouped by subject matter), which makes subsequent retrieval and review easier.
• sharing a bunch of documents you created in one file

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PDFs are digital files that contain various sorts of data. Often they include images and text, along with interactive forms. Sometimes it is useful to flatten all these elements into a single image layer. This makes the PDF more difficult to edit and prevents form data from being easily changed.

To flatten PDFs simply go to SuperTool’s PDF Flatten tool, upload your pdf, preview the results, and download. The magic that happens in the background includes rendering all fonts and visual elements as a raster image. This means that vector lines and drawings are turned into pixels. The same goes for interactive features like forms. If you had typed in your name, then the letters in your name would turn from editable characters to pixels. Only rather sophisticated graphic editing software can change the pixels.

Reasons Not to Flatten a PDF

Without flattening, a PDF can be easily searched and interactive features can be copied and extracted. Moreover, a flattened PDF is more difficult to edit than an un-flattened PDF.

This process is somewhat different than the Adobe Acrobat layer flattener. In the paid Adobe tool, for example, layers can be preserved as vector images (and therefore remain more readily editable).

To secure a PDF even more, using digital signatures and passwords may be required.

So, start flattening a pdf to make it uneditable using this online tool.

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