Hi, I too am unhappy with the behaviour of "combine files" in Acrobat when combining images.
On my particular installation of Acrobat Pro, combining two images of somewhat different size (498x312, 490x298) produces a 2-page document with images in highly-distorted aspect ratios. I imagine they're being distorted in this way to fit a default pagesize -- perhaps A4 on my installation.
Of course: your mileage may vary, as Acro Pro is in "Continuous Release". As such, it's pretty much guaranteed to behave differently a month from now. Or even a week from now. It'll change behaviour without notice, unless you untick a box indicating that you have opted-out of its recommendation to "automatically install updates".
For what it's worth, my installation is an "Acrobat Pro EDU", in "Continuous Release | Version 2025.001.20937 | 64-bit", running on a Win11 platform that's localised to NZ. Annoyingly, Acrobat's devs hadn't bothered to provide a cut-and-paste affordance for a plaintext rendition of the version number displayed in the Help / About Adobe Acrobat... affordance. Grumble.
And... I can't find any affordances in my installation of Acrobat Pro which would let me control the placement & scaling & aspect-ratio of the imagery. I'm guessing the only supported workflow for this use-case in Acro Pro is to scan all images into uncropped pages of a large-enough size to accommodate all images to be scanned, then crop the images individually (and rather clumsily) in the Edit affordances of Acro Pro. Well... creating a multipage PDF document from a collection of images is surely a clumsy collection of use-cases for the Acrobat product team to support... and fortunately I can easily work around using AcroPro for this task. I don't even have to use PDF! ;-)
Clark Thomborson
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Hi, I too am unhappy with the behaviour of "combine files" in Acrobat when combining images.
On my particular installation of Acrobat Pro, combining two images of somewhat different size (498x312, 490x298) produces a 2-page document with images in highly-distorted aspect ratios. I imagine they're being distorted in this way to fit a default pagesize -- perhaps A4 on my installation.
Of course: your mileage may vary, as Acro Pro is in "Continuous Release". As such, it's pretty much guaranteed to behave differently a month from now. Or even a week from now. It'll change behaviour without notice, unless you untick a box indicating that you have opted-out of its recommendation to "automatically install updates".
For what it's worth, my installation is an "Acrobat Pro EDU", in "Continuous Release | Version 2025.001.20937 | 64-bit", running on a Win11 platform that's localised to NZ. Annoyingly, Acrobat's devs hadn't bothered to provide a cut-and-paste affordance for a plaintext rendition of the version number displayed in the Help / About Adobe Acrobat... affordance. Grumble.
And... I can't find any affordances in my installation of Acrobat Pro which would let me control the placement & scaling & aspect-ratio of the imagery. I'm guessing the only supported workflow for this use-case in Acro Pro is to scan all images into uncropped pages of a large-enough size to accommodate all images to be scanned, then crop the images individually (and rather clumsily) in the Edit affordances of Acro Pro. Well... creating a multipage PDF document from a collection of images is surely a clumsy collection of use-cases for the Acrobat product team to support... and fortunately I can easily work around using AcroPro for this task. I don't even have to use PDF! ;-)