It's very often the case that you need to send more than one PDF to somebody you need to send a few or you need to send a collection of various documents all related to the same event or situation or maybe you know all the files you want to send to prospective clients or to a new employee there's a number of ways to do that with Acrobat probably one of the most common ways is to send one PDF with a bunch of attachments but I'm much more elegant way is to actually create a portfolio in Acrobat that's been around since version 9 portfolio doesn't have anything to do with you know like a photography portfolio it's actually the name for a single PDF that can include various other files within it kind of like a PDF wrapper and to the end recipient they just receive one PDF that's attached to an email they double click it and they immediately have access to all the files inside they can preview them or they can open them it's really cool it's very easy to create a portfolio let's do that in this video you can see that right at the get-go you can choose either to create a PDF or create a PDF portfolio you can also choose from the create menu PDF portfolio and if you watched my video on combining files you'll will remember there's a radio button right there in case you change your mind you know I don't want to combine everything into a single PDF let's just grab it all in a collection like a portfolio I'll click cancel them it's just going to create a PDF portfolio right here when you do so it's a very simple wizard just wants to know two things one what layout do you want to use and two which files do you want to include and the best part is that you don't have to know for sure you can just choose one and then once the portfolio is created you can go ahead and change your layout add different files and so on so we'll look at all these different layouts in a bit right now let's just choose grid and then we're going to click add files and I have a bunch of files that we can use I'm just going to select let's see let's get the employee handbook and I'm holding down the ctrl key to select multiple files an excel file a brochure and one more PDF this one I'll click open an acrobat puts them all together and shows you what it's going to look like in the layout that you chose in this case we chose grid so essentially a portfolio contains previews of all the files that are contained in the portfolio down here but it's still one simple PDF portfolio to dot PDF is the temporary file name it gave it and then you.