Inserting Pages into a PDF

The Insert Pages command allows you to pull pages from one or more pre-existing PDFs and insert them into the currently active PDF. The Insert Blank Page command creates new, blank pages and inserts them into the active PDF. PDF/A documents or documents that have been certified or digitally signed cannot have pages inserted. The process discussed here inserts pages in a single PDF; see Batch Slip Sheet to insert pages in multiple documents at the same time.

Note: Pages cannot be inserted into a PDF that has been digitally signed or certified.

ClosedInserting Pages from Another PDF
  1. Open the PDF into which you wish to insert pages. This process works on the currently active PDF.
  2. Go to Document > Insert > Pages from Document or press CTRL+SHIFT+I. A Select Files to Insert dialog box opens.

  3. Navigate to and select the file that is the source of the pages that will be inserted into the current PDF, then click Open. The Insert Pages dialog box appears.

  4. To add other source files that are not currently open in Revu, click Add. The Select Files to Insert dialog box reappears. Navigate to and select the file that is the source of the pages that will be inserted into the current PDF, then click Open.
  5. To add source files that are currently open in Revu, click Add Open. All PDFs currently open in Revu will be added.

  6. Pages will be inserted from PDFs in the order in which they are sorted. To change the sort order:

    • Click and select the desired sort option to sort the files automatically.
    • Select a file you wish to move and click either to move it up in the list or to move it down in the list to reorder the files in the list manually.
    • Select a file and click to remove it from the list.
  7. By default, all pages of a given file will be inserted. To select specific pages in a source PDF to be inserted:
    1. Select the PDF and click Modify. The Select Pages dialog box appears.
    2. Select Custom from the Pages dropdown menu and enter the pages to be inserted.
      • Use a dash between page numbers to define those two pages and all pages in between.
      • Use a comma to define pages that are separated.

      For example, entering 1-3, 5, 9 will insert pages 1, 2, 3, 5, and 9.

    3. Click OK.

  8. Select the desired Options:

    • Include Bookmarks: Add any bookmarks from the selected PDF files.
    • Include File Attachments: Add any file attachments from the selected PDF files.
    • Merge Document Properties: Combine the document properties of the existing and selected PDF files.
    • Merge Layers: All layer information in the PDFs will be kept when this options is checked. If unchecked, the layers will be removed, but the content and markups in the layers will remain in the combined PDF.
    • Use Filename as Page Label: By default, the page labels of the inserted pages are copied from the source PDFs. Select this to use the file names instead.
  1. Determine where the inserted pages will be placed:
    1. Select Before or After from the dropdown menu below the name of the PDF into which the pages are being inserted.
    2. Select First Page, Last Page, or specify a Page.
      • The combination of these two choices determines where the pages are inserted. So, selecting After and Last Page will insert the pages after the last page of the current PDF.
  1. Select Interleave Pages, if desired. This will cause the inserted pages to be weaved alternately into the existing pages, starting from the position determined in the previous step. This is useful when rejoining odd and even pages that were output separately, for example.
  2. Click OK.

Tip: You can insert pages directly from Windows Explorer. Simply drag one or more PDFs into the Thumbnails panel and the Insert Pages dialog box will appear with those files already added.

ClosedInserting Blank Pages

To insert a blank page or a new page from a saved template, use the Insert Blank Page command.

  1. Open the PDF into which you wish to insert pages.

  2. Go to Document > Insert > Insert Blank Page or press CTRL+SHIFT+N. The Insert Blank Page dialog box appears.

  3. To select a template for the new page(s), select it from the Template dropdown menu.
  4. To set a custom size, enter the Width and Height values.
  5. To define the orientation, select either Portrait or Landscape.
  6. To choose a grid style, select it from the Style dropdown menu.
  7. Enter the number of pages to insert in the Page Count field.
  1. Determine where the inserted pages will be placed:
    1. Select Before or After from the dropdown menu below the name of the PDF into which the pages are being inserted.
    2. Select First Page, Last Page, or specify a Page.
      • The combination of these two choices determines where the pages are inserted. So, selecting After and Last Page will insert the pages after the last page of the current PDF.
  1. To set this configuration as the default for future use, click Set as Default.
  2. Click OK.

Related topics

Batch Slip Sheet

Delete Pages

Replace Pages

Extract Pages