VBA to combine multiple .pdf files into one PDF - WITHOUT calling Adobe Acrobat

[jagrenet]

Hello,

I am trying to find some reference to VBA code that will combine multiple .pdf files into one single pdf ..... in a very specific order. In the Title I specify "without" using Adobe Acrobat because, everything I have found on the subject requires a Reference to the Adobe Library which, I do not want to do. I don't want to call ANY 3rd party software for the simple reason that, .... end users of my program potentially do not have Acrobat, (or any other "required" software) installed on their machines.

I feel like there is a way to do this, I just haven't figured it out yet.
Does anybody have an idea ????

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

 

[kweaver]

Acrobat XI Pro has a "combine files" feature.

 

[jagrenet]

Acrobat XI Pro has a "combine files" feature.

Thanks kweaver but, as stated above ... that is not the route I wish to take.

 

[kweaver]

Thanks kweaver but, as stated above ... that is not the route I wish to take.

Yes, I realized that. However, I don't think there's a way to do what you ask using VBA...so I thought I'd mention the EASY way.

 

[karchunhung]

Try use this PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit
You can merge the PDF files without using Acrobat.

Sub MergePDF()

Dim command As String
Dim fromPath As String
Dim wbPath As String

wbPath = ThisWorkbook.Path
fromPath = wbPath & "\"
command = "pdftk.exe " & fromPath & "in1.pdf " & fromPath & "in2.pdf " _
& "cat output " & fromPath & "merge.pdf"
Shell command ' Shell "cmd.exe /c " & command

End Sub

 

[jagrenet]

Try use this PDFtk - The PDF Toolkit
You can merge the PDF files without using Acrobat.

Sub MergePDF()

Dim command As String
Dim fromPath As String
Dim wbPath As String

wbPath = ThisWorkbook.Path
fromPath = wbPath & "\"
command = "pdftk.exe " & fromPath & "in1.pdf " & fromPath & "in2.pdf " _
& "cat output " & fromPath & "merge.pdf"
Shell command ' Shell "cmd.exe /c " & command

End Sub

Thank you for responding karchunhung. I am looking at you code and I believe I am understanding how it's working. Could you break it down a little, just to clarify please ??

 

[karchunhung]

There is nothing special for the code, please refer to PDFtk website for how to use it with Excel.

 

[jagrenet]

There is nothing special for the code, please refer to PDFtk website for how to use it with Excel.

Will do - Thank you !!