Unable to merge pdfs in order Acrobat 6

[mmrsupport]

Greetings,

Little baffled by this, would appreciate some help. We have 4 people with Acrobat on their systems who do monthly merges of multiple reports into single PDFs. We all have Acrobat 6. When 3 of us try to merge multiple files, they are out of order when selected. We have a naming structure that we put into place with the files starting with the office code, then 000, 005, 010, and so on, so that when we selected them it would put them in order.

1 workstation does this. It has Windows 2000 on it. The other 3 have XP and will not put them in correct order. Only 1 is out of order, but when you have to merge PDFS for 90 some odd offices, it is extra work and slows us down.

Any ideas? We updated all 3 with the latest SPs.

 

[jmgalvin]

Have you tried using the Pages panel? You can drag to new pdf into that panel, placing it where you want it in the order.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[mmrsupport]

We open Acrobat, go to Create PDF - from Multiple files, then browse, then select all files for that client in that are in the main folder. Then we have to drag and drop the one file out of place every time, while our one co worker doesn't, she just then clicks OK.

 

[jmgalvin]

I don't have much idea why that would happen, but assume it's a sorting problem. If the orioginal folders are stored on a server, I'm stumped. If they're on the individual machines, it could be related to how the users have things ordered in the folder (by name, date, etc.). If the folders are on individual machines, you might take a look at how the contents of the folders are arranged on the 2000 machine as compared to the XP machines - making sure they appear the same.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4