Broken links and formatting shifts after merging pitch decks

[Keneth]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a final set of documents for a crucial series of meetings next week, but I’m hitting a wall with the merging process. I expected the "Combine Files" tool to keep everything intact, but some of my internal page links are pointing to the wrong places once the files are joined. I’m mostly using standard layouts from Canva and PowerPoint exports, yet the interactive elements seem to shift or break entirely in the final PDF. I’ve tried manually re-linking a few, but with 50+ pages and a tight deadline, it’s just not sustainable. I'm definitely not a power user, so maybe I'm missing a simple "flatten" or "preserve" setting during the merge? Has anyone else dealt with this when preparing high-stakes presentations, or is there a specific setting you’d recommend to lock everything in place?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, Keneth

Is you installation of the software fully up to date? This may be ab bug from an older version, but if your combine files options menu is configured properly, this issue should not occur:

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If you are fully updated and using the above settings, but the merge is still not working, can I ask you to please send us two files you are merging together which showcase this issue (ideally those will less pages) as well as the output of merging them on your end? just let us know which links or formatting, and on which pages, come out problematic. Then we can try to reproduce and resolve the issue with those.

If those files contain sensitive data, please DO NOT post them on the public forum here. In that scenario, please email <Support@PDF-XChange.com> with a link to this topic.

Kind regards,