I recently had to put together a PDF out of several scanned TIFF files. The computer did not have any PDF authoring software and was operating on dial-up, making downloads painfully long. I downloaded the TIFF documents onto a thumb drive and then drove to the office to convert these into PDF.

I would have used Acrobat.com to convert the TIFF files to PDF, except that they only allow up to 5 documents free. Instead, I headed over to media-convert.com to convert all 9 TIFF files into PDF. This yielded 9 PDF files.

Once converted, it was simply a matter of using PDFTK Builder Portable, an application that runs on the PortableApps package, to combine the PDF files into one single file.

There are currently no applications for PortableApps that will scan documents directly or create PDFs. If I had a an Apple computer, output to PDF comes standard. I simply would have opened the TIFF files and printed to PDF. However, I am not familiar how a Mac would combine several PDFs into one.