Organize PDF pages

This article shows how to organize PDF pages: change their order, rotate them, delete them, add blank pages, and insert pages from another PDF. Organize Pages, Merge, and Split are available in the free edition since version 1.62.1.

Page commands on the Tools tab

All page commands are on the Tools tab. Open a PDF first, then click the Tools tab.

For work that involves many pages, use Organize Pages. For a quick change to one page, use the single commands described at the end of this article.

Organize Pages

Tools › Organize Pages shows all pages as a thumbnail grid in the main work area. Changes in the grid are temporary until you click Apply changes.

Select, rotate, and delete pages

1. Click a thumbnail to select the page. The selected page has a colored frame.
2. Point to a thumbnail. Three buttons appear in its top-right corner: Rotate left, Rotate right, and Delete page.
3. Click the button you need. Each rotate click turns the page 90 degrees.

The document must keep at least one page.

Change the page order

You can move pages in three ways:

• Drag a thumbnail to a new position.
• Select a page, enter the position number in Move selected to, then click Move.
• Focus a thumbnail with the keyboard, then press Alt+Left or Alt+Right.

Insert pages

1. Select a page to use as the reference point.
2. In the Insert list, choose After selected page, Before selected page, or At end.
3. Click Insert Blank Page to add an empty page. It uses the size of the selected page.
4. Or click Insert Pages from PDF, then choose another PDF. All of its pages are inserted at the chosen position.

Inserted pages are labeled Inserted, and you can move, rotate, or delete them like any other page. The combined size of the source files is limited to 500 MB.

Apply or discard your changes

• Apply changes applies the new arrangement to the active tab. The grid closes and the document shows the new order.
• Reset changes discards all changes that are not applied and reloads the original arrangement.
• Back to document hides the grid. Changes that are not applied are still there when you open Organize Pages again, as long as the document content has not changed.

After Apply changes, you can still reverse it with Undo in the title bar (Ctrl+Z). To write the result to disk, use File › Save or Save As.

Single page commands

These commands work directly on the active document. You can reverse each of them with Undo.

Insert

Click Tools › Insert, then choose:

• Insert Blank Page: adds a blank page after the current page, with the same size.
• Insert from PDF: choose a PDF, then set the Insert position (Before page, After page, Beginning of document, or End of document) and the Page number. Click Insert pages.

Delete Page

1. Click Tools › Delete Page. The current page number is filled in.
2. In Pages to delete, enter page numbers. Separate them with commas or use a range, for example 2,8,9 or 2-9.
3. Click Delete pages.

Duplicate Page

Tools › Duplicate Page copies the current page and places the copy right after it.

Rotate Pages

Click Tools › Rotate Pages to choose:

• Rotate Left or Rotate Right: turns the current page 90 degrees.
• Rotate Right All Pages or Rotate Left All Pages: turns every page.
• Rotate PDF: opens a panel on the right. Click a page to rotate it 90 degrees clockwise, or click Rotate all 90°. Click Apply to create the result.

Move / Reorder, Extract, and Reverse Order

• Move / Reorder opens a panel where you drag pages into a new order. Click Reset order to start over or Apply to create the result.
• Extract Pages saves selected pages as a new PDF. See Merge and split PDFs.
• Reverse Order opens the Additional Offline Tools panel with the Reverse page order operation. Click Process locally, then save the result in the Windows dialog.

Crop Pages

1. Click Tools › Crop Pages. The Crop PDF panel opens on the right.
2. Drag Top, Bottom, Left, and Right to set the margins to remove, in percent. A dashed line on the page shows the area that remains.
3. Click Crop All Pages.