How can I combine PDFs in LibreOffice?

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I'd like to be able to simply drag a pdf file into the pages explorer of a pdf that's being edited. This has no effect and dragging the file into the work area on a new page results in something like the follow: I've also tried 'file>insert' and selecting the pdf which results in an error saying 'the file could not be loaded'. How can I go about inserting a pdf as a page or set of pages in a pdf document I'm working on?

asked Apr 27, 2016 at 16:51 Philip Kirkbride Philip Kirkbride 524 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges

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To combine pages from two PDFs in LibreOffice Writer follow these steps.

  1. Open the first PDF document in LibreOffice Writer using File ->Open.
  2. Open the second PDF document in a new LibreOffice Writer window using File ->Open.
  3. Select a page in the first PDF document Pages pane before where you want to add a new page in the PDF document.
  4. Select the page you want to add from the second LibreOffice window and copy it.
  5. Paste the new page into the first LibreOffice Writer window.
  6. Export the new PDF file using File ->Export as PDF. -> click the Export button -> click the Save button -> browse to the location where the newly created PDF file will be saved.
answered Apr 27, 2016 at 17:01 13.5k 26 26 gold badges 47 47 silver badges 54 54 bronze badges

Opening a PDF through Writer results in the PDF being opened in LibreOffice Draw, so this solution doesn't work.

Commented Mar 7, 2018 at 13:41 I opened in Draw and it worked fine Commented Nov 12, 2018 at 13:39

I open PDFs in Writer not Draw because they are easier to read in Writer, and I wouldn't be opening a PDF in Writer unless I wanted to convert it to .rtf format in order to edit it in Writer and then convert the .rtf file back to PDF after I finished editing it.

Commented Nov 12, 2018 at 15:17

It works perfectly fine to have the PDF being opened in Draw. I copied each page separately and inserted them into empty pages inside a Writer document. The pages automatically filled the whole page, as I intended them to. Thx @karel !