Grid Combine
Combine first pages of multiple PDFs into a grid layout
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About Grid Combine
Takes the first page of each of several PDFs and arranges them in a grid on one sheet — a contact sheet of documents rather than of photographs.
Every source document is rendered in your browser to build the sheet; none of them is uploaded.
How to use Grid Combine
- Add every PDF you want represented.
- Choose the grid — three by three and four by four are the readable ones.
- Turn on filename labels if you will need to identify which cell is which.
- Generate and download the overview sheet.
On a production
Thirty quotes from suppliers, and you want to see them all at once to compare layout, letterhead and headline figure. A grid of first pages makes the set comparable in a way that opening thirty files never does.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I include more than the first page of each document?
- No, one page per document by definition — that is what makes it an index. To tile the pages of a single document, use N-Up instead.
- Will the text be readable?
- Headline text and layout, yes. Body text at nine cells per sheet is not meant to be read — the sheet is for recognising and locating documents, not reading them.
- How are the cells ordered?
- In the order the files appear in your list, filling left to right then top to bottom. Reorder the list before generating if the sequence matters.