Document Assembly

This view displays multiple pages at reduced size, making page operations easier to perform, either between pages of a single document or between documents. The functionality is similar to using the Pages panel. The difference is that pages there are represented by static thumbnails, while in Document Assembly view the pages are just reduced in size, so many page editing functions remain available.


Assembling a single document

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Choose Home > Pages > Document Assembly to place a set of miniature-sized pages from the current document in the Document Panel.

Use the Zoom tools to set the desired page size. To close Document Assembly View, click the Document Assembly tool again.

  

To copy or move pages or page ranges within a document:

Assembling with multiple documents

When Document Assembly view is set, all open documents switch to this mode, as do all documents subsequently opened. This allows you to perform cross-document operations efficiently.

In Document Assembly view, a shortcut menu becomes available. Use it to insert pages from other files, replace, extract or delete pages, split the document, add headers and footers or renumber the pages. Many options are not available for security-protected files. Right-click on a page for a shortcut menu offering these and more operations:

Note

Page ranges in Insert, Replace, Extract, Delete, Crop, Rotate, Print operations must be continuous.

 

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Choose Edit > Insert > Headers and Footers to add, update, or remove headers and/or footers for all or selected pages. See Headers and Footers.


Assembling several documents

You can perform assembly operations on several documents opened in separate windows. Choose View > Document Assembly to switch to Document Assembly view, then choose File > Open and browse for other documents to be assembled. You can simply copy or move pages or page ranges among several documents:

These documents can further be processed by any of the assembly operations described above for single documents.

Further assembly tools

The following tools appear at Home > Assemble only while Document Assembly view is set.

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The Page Assembly tool lets you select a set of source files for document assembly – these do not need to be PDF files. Each opened document is presented in a separate tab. Page thumbnails let you view each document to determine which pages are needed. Select, drag and drop pages into the target PDF. Conversion to PDF is done when necessary and may take some time.

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The Renumber Pages tool updates header and footer page numbering to the new page order built up in Document Assembly view.  This tool becomes active only when for documents that have auto-generated page numbers inserted into a header or footer.

 

Page editing operations

Some page editing operations can be done in Document Assembly view that cannot be done with the Pages panel. These include:

Leaving Document Assembly view

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Click the Document Assembly tool again. This restores the view last set under Scroll Options for each open document.