You can easily reorder the pages of a pdf on a Mac using Preview. If you own a Mac running OS X manipulating pdf’s is easy and, in fact, it’s built in to the OS. With OS X you can do the following. Click on the other pages in the list to see their steps.
- re-order pages of a pdf (this article)
- delete individual pages of a pdf
- rotate individual pages of a pdf
- insert pages into a pdf
- create a new pdf from one or more pages of a pdf
- how to create a mac application to merge pdf’s in automator
How to Reorder Pages in a Pdf on a Mac
Step 1: Open the pdf in Preview.
By default, Preview opens all pdfs. If you have changed the default program to something else you’ll need to browse to your Applications directory and launch it manually (or simply type preview in your spotlight search). If you have Preview nestled in your dock you can simply drag and drop a pdf file onto the icon.
Step 2: Make sure the “View Thumbnails” is turned on.
You can toggle this option at the “View > Thumbnails” option at the top of the screen or by the keyboard shortcut of “Option-Command-2”. The thumbnails show up by default on the left side:
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| Here you can see the thumbnails in the left column |
Step 3: Simply click and drag the pdf page thumbnails in the left column up and down to re-order the pages of the pdf.
BTW: In OS X Mavericks the file automatically saves itself.
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| Here I’m dragging page 154 up in the page order |
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