
Importing contents into a PDFClerk document
Getting content into a PDFClerk document can be achieved in a number of ways:
- Opening a PDF or a graphics file will create a new PDFClerk document and automatically import the file.
- Inserting a PDF, PDFClerk or graphics file will import and insert that file's contents immediately before the currently selected page. If no page is selected the contents will be appended to the end of the PDFClerk document. If the PDFClerk document is currently empty its contents will be set to the contents of the imported file.
- Interleaving a PDF file will interleave (weave in) the imported document's contents with the existing contents. See Interleaving PDF Documents.
- Dragging and dropping a PDF, PDFClerk, graphics or text file onto the page list, will import and insert its contents at the location of the drop.
Note: In the application preferences you can set whether PDFClerk will use a PDF document's file name, or its PDF Title property as the source name of the page (the middle column of the page list) when opening a PDF file. Holding down the command key while clicking the File menu to select the Open item, or one of the Open Recent submenu items, or while dropping a PDF document onto the page list, will toggle this behaviour temporarily. By default PDFClerk uses the title property of the PDF document as the "Source Name", which is often different from the file name as stored on disk. (Make sure you are pressing the command key as you click on "File" in the menu bar. Pressing the key after the menus are already showing will not work.) If a PDF document does not have a title property the document's file name will be used anyway.