PDF Mixer

Index of the Tutorial:

Organize PDF Pages

Add New PDF Pages

Manage Permissions of PDF

How to Add Pages from One PDF to another Existing PDF File

Sometime you may need to insert some pages from one PDF file into another existing PDF document. Please follow these steps below to start:

Step 1. Open 2 PDF files by PDF Mixer. You can click on the Open a PDF button to open 2 PDF files one by one, or drag and drop 2 PDF files onto the page list to open straightly.

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How to Reorder PDF Pages

If you need to adjust the PDF page number sequence, you can use the Move Up and the Move Down buttons to reorder the pages. You can press and hold the "SHIFT" key on your keyboard to select multiple pages. If you want to use the Drag Mode to drag one page and move it, please make sure you have already made the Drag Mode option checked.

(NOTE: When the "Drag Mode" is enabled, the multi-select mode would be switched off automatically. You can only drag and drop one single PDF page. Please uncheck the "Drag Mode" if you want to select multiple pages.)

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How to Delete PDF Pages

You can simply hit the Delete button to remove pages you selected. This only removes those pages from the file you will save, and does not delete pages from the original PDF file. If you want to remove those pages from the original PDF file, you have to choose that file as the file to be saved and overwrite it.

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How to Switch 2 PDF Pages

If you want to change positions of 2 PDF pages, you need to disable the Drag Mode and select 2 pages then click on the Switch 2 Pages button. You can press and hold the "CTRL" key and click on 2 pages in the page list to select.

Please note the Switch function only works for switch 2 pages. If you select 1 page or more than 2 pages, it will not work.

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How to Rotate PDF Pages

If find some PDF pages are in the wrong orientation, you can use the Rotate button to fix:

Step 1. Select pages which you want to rotate. You can press and hold the "CTRL" key or the "SHIFT" key to select more than 1 page.

Step 2. Click on the Rotate button.

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How to Select Page Range

If your PDF file has a lot of pages, it would be a headache when you want to select multiple pages. You can click on the Select Page Range button and type the page range then all pages in the range would be selected immediately. If you want to select from the page 8 to the page 15, please type "8-15" and click the OK button.

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Drag Mode and Multi-Select Mode

The page list is in the Multi-Select Mode by default, and this mode would allow you to select multiple pages by holding "CTRL" key, "SHIFT" key or the left mouse button. If you want to drag a page and move it up or down by your mouse freely, you can enable the Drag Mode and the Multi-Select Mode would be auto disabled.

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How to Make Copies of PDF Pages

If you want to duplicate a page or make copies of multiple pages in the PDF file, you can select pages you want to duplicate and click on the Make a Copy button. The new created copy pages would appear before each original page.

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How to Add Blank Pages into a PDF File

Sometimes you may need to add a blank page as a cover in the PDF file. There are a few steps show you how to add blank pages:

Step 1. Select a page as the position to insert new blank pages and click on the Add Blank Pages.

How to Add MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint Files into a PDF File

PDF Mixer allows users to insert Word DOC / DOCX pages, Excel worksheets, PowerPoint slides or plain text files into the PDF file. Simply click on the corresponding import button and select a file then the program would start importing instantly.

How to Add an Image as a New Page into a PDF File

How to Add a New Page from Scanner to a PDF File

There is an Import from the Scanner button next to the Import an Image. You can click on this button to start the scanning and transfer the scanned image into the computer to create a new page in the page list.

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How to Add an Open Password to a PDF

You will find there is an Open Password text box above the Save the File button. Typing your password into the box and saving the file will make the PDF file password protected. Every time the reader opens the file, the PDF Viewer program will ask for the password.

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How to Add Restrictions to a PDF

There are 2 PDF restriction options above the Owner Password text box. You can check them to disable the copying and printing functions for the PDF. You can also set your owner password in the owner password text box.

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