Edit PDF pages
These guides all edit PDF pages without touching what is printed on them. Adding, deleting, reordering, splitting and rotating are page operations: they move whole sheets around and leave the content of each sheet exactly as it was. That is why they are safe, and why they are grouped apart from real editing.
Page work versus content work
Changing the order of pages rewrites the page tree in the file. It does not re-render anything, so text stays selectable, images keep their original pixels, and file size barely moves. Deleting a page drops that entry and nothing else.
Changing a word on a page is a different job entirely. It means finding the text run, matching the font, and rewriting the drawing instructions. pdfpix does not do that. See Edit a PDF for what to use instead.
One tool covers most of it
Looking for a PDF editor to remove pages, split a file in two, or move page 12 to the front? Organize pages does all three. You see every page as a thumbnail, drag them, drop the ones you do not want, and download.
Rotation and margin trimming sit in Rotate and crop, because a crop box is a page property rather than a page order change.
Several pages on one sheet
Putting two, four or more pages on one sheet is also a page operation. N-up PDF scales each page into a cell on a Letter, A4, A3 or Legal sheet and embeds the page content, so text stays selectable at the smaller size. Put two PDF pages on one page is the common case, four on one sheet is the handout case, and Make a booklet from a PDF orders the pages so a duplex print folds into a book.
Two scans that should share a page go through the same tool once they are a PDF. Scan two pages onto one page gives the order: images to one PDF first, then two per sheet.
Check the result before you send it
Page operations fail quietly. A deleted page looks the same as a page that was never there, and a reversed pair reads fine until someone reaches the second one. Open the downloaded file and page through it once.
If the source file was damaged to begin with, page tools may refuse it. Repair PDF rebuilds the cross reference table so the file opens again.
Questions people ask
- Can I delete one page and keep the rest?
- Yes. Open Organize pages, click the page you do not want, and download the result. The other pages are untouched, including their text and images.
- Does splitting a PDF change the pages?
- No. Splitting copies whole pages into new documents. Nothing is re-rendered, so the pages in each part look and behave the way they did in the original.
- Will rotating a page make the file bigger?
- Almost never. Rotation sets a page attribute. It does not redraw anything, so the file size stays within a few bytes of where it started.
- Can I add a page from another PDF?
- Merge the two files first, then reorder. Merge PDFs joins them and Organize pages puts the new sheet where you want it.
Do it now
The tool runs in this browser. Your file never leaves the machine, and the result is checked before you download it.
Reorder PDF pagesGuides
- Add pages to a PDF Insert pages into an existing PDF at the right place.
- Remove a blank page from a PDF Drop the blank pages a duplex scan left behind.
- Rotate a PDF and save it Turn a page and have it stay turned after saving.
- Split one PDF into separate files Cut a PDF into the files you actually need.
- Put two PDF pages on one page Put two PDF pages side by side on one page, so the file prints two-up or reads as a spread.
- Print four PDF pages on one sheet Fit four PDF pages on one sheet as a two by two grid and keep the text readable.
- Make a booklet from a PDF Turn a PDF into a folded booklet with the pages in the right order on each side of the sheet.
- Scan two pages onto one page Put two scanned pages or photos on one PDF page, as a form portal or a printer asks.
- Reorder PDF pages Reorder, remove and split pages in one pass.