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Acrobat X Delete pages

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March 1, 2011
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When i try to delete pages, i select the icon then enter from to page numbers, i always have to repeat this twice before the actual pages delete?

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Anonymous

What worked for me: I printed the entire file to a new pdf ("v2"). That version allowed me to delete pages without error.

None of the other solutions in the string of responses worked in Acobate X.

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pegburke4

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NOTHING is working for me. I copy to a new PDF, and I STILL can't delete a page. If I see that "pages in use" message one more time...

OK, I've cooled off a little now. I'm on a MacPro, OS 10.7.2, Acrobat X 10.1.1.

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Dave Scott

Participant

The "pages in use" message is still with me too. Adobe ought to be ashamed

they have not fixed this with

an update in the many months the problem has existed!

Sometimes if I print selected pages to an Acrobat PDF, that will get me down to

the pages I want.

I also had another utility prn2pdf that prints to a PDF file and that works all

the time to get selected pages.

Doing a delete obviously means printing everything except what you don't want

there any more.

Dave Scott

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Castle_Street

Participant

Frustrated with this issue I seem to have found a solution that works. Always open file from within Adobe (I'm using Pro 9 windows). From documents choose delete page. Select the page(s) you want to delete and use shift control D and it always works for me - hope it does for you too

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Knasper111

Participating Frequently

Just out of curiosity, does the Undo command work on your machine? No matter what I do in Acrobat Pro I can never undo anything, it's always greyed out. I wish Adobe would do something about this mess...

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Anonymous

No. Undo does not work for me, either.

I just discovered a new weirdness.

I made 2 test docs (by making copies of existing docs). On the first one, I was able to delete pages using your backspace trick. I saved and reopened it. Now I cannot delete pages because I'm getting the "in use" error. On the second doc, I was able to open it, delete pages, save & close, and then repeat the whole cycle several times.

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Knasper111

Participating Frequently

Cheryl,

I don't think I've ever come across the "in use" error, it doesn't ring a bell. I repeated your test using a PDF downloaded from a software vendor and I'm having no trouble editing the two copies and saving them multiple times. Tried the same thing on one of my scanned PDF's, no trouble with that one either.

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Knasper111

Participating Frequently

I've tried Acrobat X on OSX Lion as well, and it behaves the same way as on Snow Leopard.

Six months has passed since Adobe responded and still no solution. Something tells me their solution will be Acrobat XI. Just don't expect me to buy it, I feel cheated enough as it is...

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Knasper111

Participating Frequently

I'm also having the same issue running Acrobat Pro on my Mac (Snow Leopard), but I have found that deleting a page works fine when using the backspace key on the keyboard and confirming simply by hitting enter. I have absolutely know idea WHY, but I've tested it a number of times and it does the trick.

BUT, another problem is what happens if I delete the wrong page. Undo is ALWAYS greyed out!! The only way to undo is to close the document and start over...

Adobe, this is very disappointing. In my mind Acrobat X should NEVER have been released is this sad state.

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Anonymous

Well, there are always PATCHES. That is, if anybody from Adobe is reading this thread.

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djofsv

Participant

Also same issue with me. I have Win 7 64bit with Acrobat X Pro. Requires me to delete page twice before it actually is deleted. Sometimes it saves and when I reopen, the deleted page is still there. Very frustrating.

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Anonymous

To John Smith (yeah, right, that's your name for sure): I just reported your post for using this forum to advertise a competitor's PDF program. "Look, my program can delete pages, no problem!"

Not that I usually care, but if I had wanted to use that program, I would be using it now and not searching for an answer to my ADOBE ACROBAT X issue. Don't waste our time in this fashion.

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Bill12

Inspiring

Bruce,

Thanks for the post of the info from Adobe and also the response to John. You might consider reporting the post of John as abuse. I have tried several times in other topics and get an error every time. Sometimes pointing out other software is appropriate, particularly for cases where Acrobat just can't do the job or does it very poorly. However, John's answer is almost always the same about this other software and not answering the question. So please report the abuse, particularly since I have not been successful at that.

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Anonymous

Bill,

I did report it because it is a waste of time and a shameless plug for another program, using Adobe's forums. I'm not all that great a fan of Adobe (I'm sort of back in the Adobe camp again with Acrobat X - I like it despite this minor bug), but that guy annoyed me. I mean, if I used his program, what would I be doing in an Adobe forum researching an Acrobat issue? Here I am looking at some cheesy video, wondering why the GUI looks different. Because it's a different program altogether!

Thanks for the message.

Bruce

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BCI Lancaster

Participant

I had the same issue, with the exception I could have tried 100 times to delete a page and it would not work. I went to "Help" and selected "Repair Acrobat Installation". IT WORKED!! of course time will tell but for now I am relieved to have a fix.

I have Adobe X, Windows 7 and Microsoft Office 2010.

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Anonymous

@ The AP: I'm glad "Repair Acrobat Installation" worked for you but it didn't for me. I am encouraged by this, though:

FYI: Adobe's response:

Hello ,

Several people have reported this problem and a bug has been logged. According to most people reporting this issue you can go through the process a second time and it will successfully delete the pages. We are sorry for this interruption of your workflow and we hope to address this in the next quarterly update of Acrobat.

Regards,

Adobe Systems Inc.

It wasn't in the latest patch, unfortunately (10.1.0.534)

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prwashburn

Participant

Has there been any update to this issue? The original delete page problem, not the windows 7 issue. Im currently running Adobe X (ver 10.1.0) on Windows XP and still running into this. The delete feature works fine on some documents but not on others. Through testing the only difference i can tell is the PDF producer.

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Anonymous

Same issue here. I've just gotten used to the fact that in order to delete pages, 75% of the time I'll need to delete them twice to actually make them go away. This is the sort of bug that will eventually lead to mistakes that will result in me delivering an inaccurate product.

Fix, please.

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acamarota

Participant

The easiest way to do this is as follows:

1) Select "print to Adobe pdf" and print the pages that you want to a new pdf document.

2) Repeat step #1 for as many pages as you want.

3) Combine files into a single pdf file from the new documents.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

The easiest way to do this is as follows:
1) Select "print to Adobe pdf" and print the pages that you want to a new pdf document.
2) Repeat step #1 for as many pages as you want.
3) Combine files into a single pdf file from the new documents.

Why is this the easiest way to delete pages?

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acamarota

Participant

You are correct, the easiest way is to use Tools > Pages > Delete. This seems to be working in my version of Acrobat X with 64 bit Windows 7 Pro. The print method was a workaround when the delete function did not work.

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