How to rearrange PDF pages

[Chris Allingham]

I would like to rearrange the pages in a PDF document so that when you scroll the pages, they match the order shown in the bookmarks. I've carefully read the Acrobat 5.0 online documentation about using tagged bookmarks to accomplish this, but still can't figure out how to do it.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

[Chris Allingham]

Just to clarify my original message, my PDF is 300+ pages and I don't want to move each page around manually. It seems like there should be some command to force the page order to match the bookmark order.

[William A. Davis]

I think you will find the answer is to go back to the original document you created the PDF from and order the pages there. Otherwise, as far as I know you can only do it page-by-page. There is a chance you can do it with the appropriate JavaScript. See the manual and the JavaScript manual on the Help menu.

[Johann F Swart]

Chris, open you thumbnails and shove them around to your heart's delight!

[Reinhard Franke]

I think the method Johann suggested is very, very cumbersome for 300 pages. Also then you have the pages in the right order but (I think) the bookmark targets don't follow the movements.

Then it seems to be better to "Extract all Pages" (see batch sequence - in Acrobat or on CD), number/sort the files to your needs and then replace all pages in your bookmarked file.

The other way is to script it. But you will not find a ready made. "List all bookmarks" would be the basic. This has to be changed to jump to the page, where the bookmarks are pointed to, this page has to be extracted with a counter-number (the later page number). If all pages has been extracted, then you can replace the pages in your origin file with the files from disk. This requires that all pages are bookmarked

Perhaps the suggestion from William - back to the origin Doc - is simpler.

HTH, Reinhard