Reorder, rotate, add and delete PDF pages

Organize pages lays out every page of the PDF as a card, so you can rearrange the whole document at a glance. In the example, Northwind Studio swaps two products in its 12-page catalog draft and adds a blank page for a late addition.

Select pages

Click Organize pages in the mode tabs. Click a page to add it to the selection, and click it again to take it out. Shift-click selects every page between the last one you clicked and this one.

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1. 1Selected pages
2. 2Add pages
3. 3Selection actions

• Select all, or ⌘A (Ctrl+A on Windows), selects every page. Esc clears the selection.
• Jump to page scrolls to a page number in a long document.
• Comfortable and Compact change the size of the cards.
• Double-click a page to open it in Read.

Move pages

Drag a page, or a selection of pages, to its new place. A marker shows where they will land, such as "Move before 7", and the board scrolls when you drag near its edge. Press Esc while dragging to cancel.

Signatures and watermarks you placed move with their pages.

Rotate, duplicate or delete

The bar at the bottom acts on the selected pages:

• Left and Right turn the pages a quarter turn. This changes the saved PDF, unlike rotating in View.
• Duplicate puts a copy right after each page.
• Extract saves the selected pages as a new PDF. See below.
• OCR, with one page selected, recognizes the text on a scanned page.
• Read opens the first selected page in Read.
• Delete removes the pages, along with any notes on them. Delete on the keyboard does the same.

After each change a notice says what happened, such as "2 pages moved", with an Undo button for a few seconds. ⌘Z works too. A PDF must keep at least one page.

Add pages

Select the page the new ones should go in front of, then press Add pages. With no page selected, they go at the end. The menu says where, for example Insert before page 3.

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1. 1Add pages
2. 2Where they go
3. 3Pages from PDF
4. 4Blank pages
5. 5Selected page

• Pages from PDF… inserts every page of another PDF you choose.
• Blank · Match document adds an empty page the same size as its neighbor.
• Blank · A4 and Blank · US Letter add an empty page in that size.

A blank page is a good place for a text box added in Edit, or a signature page. A password-protected PDF has to be unlocked before its pages can be inserted.

Extract pages to a new PDF

Select the pages and press Extract. Choose where the new PDF goes; Hangar suggests the original name with the number of pages added. A toast confirms Extracted PDF saved, and your draft is left as it was.

To pull pages out of many PDFs at once, use the Extract pages tool instead. For the same moves on a batch of files, the Organize Pages tool works on a queue.

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