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Moving PDF Pages With Adobe Acrobat

Use 'drag and drop' or follow along with three scripting exercises

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David Dagley
Oct 26, 2024
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There is no Acrobat user interface functionality for moving pages. However, pages can easily be dragged and dropped to different positions within the pages panel. The JavaScript document method, movePage( ) is fairly simple and only takes two parameters, but it can be tricky to work with. Since it only moves one page, creativity must be used to move multiple pages by repeating the script. When this type of script is written the programmer must remember to envision the new page order from the previous script before the repetition or it will produce unintended results that can be difficult to troubleshoot.


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DRAG AND DROP

1) Open the pages panel.

2) Select a page, or set of pages.

3) Drag the selected pages to a new position in the pages panel.

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