For years I never knew how to combine multiple PDFs into one PDF file without the use of Adobe Professional. However, this can be done and can be done in Linux very very easily and of course, for free.
This process requires you to install two packages: Ghostscript and PDFtk. These packages are widely available in the repositories of your distro of choice. If you are going to install them using apt, use the following commands:
apt-get install gs apt-get install pdftk
Now, open a terminal and copy and paste the following command:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=firstANDsecond.pdf -dBATCH first.pdf second.pdf
Change the name of first.pdf and second.pdf to the PDF files that you would like to merge, and change the name of firstANDsecond.pdf to the name you would like to name your merged pdf file. If you haven’t changed directories, the merged document will be created in your home directory.
This command allows you to merge more than just two documents. If you would like to merge three or more PDF files, continue to append the file names to the above command (separated by a space).