Saturday, March 08, 2014
Merge Files of Different Formats Into One File Online With MergeFil.es
Free Software: Mergefil.es is a free online file merger that lets you merge or combine multiple files into one single file. This free online file merger can combine multiple files of different formats into one single PDF, MS Word, or MS Excel document.
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This is a great tool to know about, and it sounds like a reasonable alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro. This tool goes one step further and allows you to combine two different files of different formats. I am curious to see how well this website actually performs. I also wonder what the capacity is for creating Bookmarks and other features that Acrobat Pro provides. Regardless, this is definitely a website to keep in mind when needing to merge files, especially if you may not have the means to put those two files in the same format before merging.
Although this sounds like a neat utility. I imagine that the formatting flops that could arise between multiple filetypes probably make it less practical then it initially seems. Merging PDF's together still seems less likely to create failure, and anything you can create on a computer can be turned into a PDF already. Beyond these potential shortcomings, I am often not comfortable with submitting my files to a third party to do the combination. Anybody can get access to these files, and often times I would have no knowledge of it. That makes this a huge security risk for confidential files.
The above comment does raise a good point about confidentiality and security. I think this is a good alternative to Acrobat if you only combine a file type once and awhile, but I don't think it would be a replacement for Acrobat. It also doesn't seem to support .jpgs or other image file types, which seems like a common file type to merge with, say a Word doc or a PDF. For what you pay, it probably would get the job done, but if you combine files into PDFs with any frequency, I'd think Acrobat is the way to go.
This is interesting and may be useful. But like Joe, when I do this, it is usually for things that should stay secure and at CMU we have access to Acrobat in clusters and at a student discount. Furthermore, people may not realize it, but Acrobat accepts most of these formats and will merge/convert them into PDFs or can create a portfolio to view everything. Overall, I wouldn't recommend using this tool if alternates are available.
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