Combine Manuscript, Figures, and Supplementary Materials Into One Journal Submission PDF
Journal submission portals increasingly require a single blinded PDF containing the manuscript body, tables, figures, and supplementary materials in a specific order — but most writing and figure workflows produce each component as a separate file. Deliteful's PDF Merge tool assembles them in upload order into one submission-ready document.
Academic researchers submitting to peer-reviewed journals routinely export their manuscript from Word, their figures from R or Python, their tables separately, and their supplementary appendix as its own file. Some portals accept separate uploads per component; others require a single combined PDF for blind review. When the latter is required, assembling manually in Acrobat — if you even have a license — is the standard workaround, but it is slow and easy to get wrong if figure order matters.
Deliteful merges PDFs in the exact sequence you upload them. For a submission where figures must follow the references and supplementary data must appear last, you control that order at upload time. The tool is browser-based, requires no institutional software license, and is free to start via Google OAuth.
How it works
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Create your free account
Sign up with Google OAuth in three clicks — no credit card or institutional license required.
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Upload manuscript components in submission order
Add your blinded manuscript, figure PDFs, tables, and supplementary materials in the sequence the journal requires.
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Download and submit
Download the single merged PDF and upload it to the journal submission portal.
Frequently asked questions
- Can I merge a Word-exported manuscript PDF with R-exported figure PDFs for journal submission?
- Yes. Deliteful merges PDFs from any source application. Upload the manuscript first, then figure files in the order they are cited, and download one combined submission PDF.
- Does the tool preserve figure resolution after merging?
- Yes. The merge does not re-render or downsample figure content. Lossless stream compression is applied during save but does not affect image resolution or visual fidelity. Figures appear at the same quality as in your exported source PDFs.
- Can I produce a blinded version by merging only certain components?
- Yes. Simply omit the author information PDF or title page from the upload set when producing a blinded review copy.
- What if the journal requires figures at specific page positions?
- Deliteful merges in upload order, so you control where each figure PDF appears in the final document. Upload figure files at the position in the sequence where they should appear.
Create your free Deliteful account with Google and submit your next manuscript as one correctly ordered, journal-ready PDF.