Acrobat X Delete pages

Report · Mar 01, 2011

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?

Report · Sep 28, 2011

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.

Report · Sep 28, 2011

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

Report · Oct 14, 2011

Knasper111, Can you explain what you mean by "using the backspace key on the keyboard"?

I am also having this problem. I am using Windows 7 & Acrobat X version 10.0.0.

Report · Oct 15, 2011

@ Cheryl

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/571/mbpa.jpg/

Just select the thumbnail of the page you want to delete and hit the backspace key.

Report · Oct 17, 2011

That does it! Actually, I have to select the thumbnail(s), hit backspace, and then hit delete.

Thanks!

Cheryl

Report · Sep 28, 2011

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...

Report · Oct 17, 2011

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...

Report · Oct 17, 2011

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.

Report · Oct 17, 2011

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.

Report · Oct 17, 2011

Take a look at Satira17's long post on March 9. When I try to delete, first I get the "Are you sure" message. I click OK and then I get "One or more pages are in use and could not be deleted." I wish I could post the problem doc but (1) I don't see an "attach" ability here. Maybe I'm just overlooking it. (2) My problem doc contains proprietary info and I can't share it. I tried to reproduce the problem with a Greeked doc but, of course, the problem doesn't happen then.

Report · Oct 17, 2011

You might find this thread of interest:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3975901#3975901

I had no idea a page deletion can't be undone, only reverted.

Report · Oct 24, 2011

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

Report · Dec 05, 2011

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.

Report · Dec 13, 2011

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.

Report · Dec 13, 2011

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

Report · Dec 13, 2011

Could you try this? Open the JS Console (Ctrl+J), delete the text in it,

and enter the following code instead:

deletePages(0, 3);

Select this code and press Ctrl+Enter. This code should delete the first 4

pages of the file.

You can adjust the numbers in the code to point to the page range you want

to remove (just remember that it's zero-based, so page 1 is 0, page 2 is 1,

etc.), and see if that works... If so, I could create a script that will

allow you to easily delete the pages you can't delete through the Pages

panel.

Report · Dec 13, 2011

Thanks for the help but that doesn't work for me.

I also don't like the approach.

I feel Adobe owes me a fix.

Control-J doesn't open it.

I searched and found

http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console

but it doesn't look like that in version X. I turned everything on.

Saved. Exited the program. Opened again.

Control-J doesn't open it.

My method of printing selected pages in the file to a new file

makes more sense to me than remembering deletePages(x, z)/

I'm a user, not a programmer.

Acrobat is word processing.

Dave Scott

Report · Dec 14, 2011

Dave -

I printed my file to a new pdf file; then I could delete pages in that new

file.

Agree -- Adobe needs to fix the issue.

Kind regards,

Greg Moss

Sr. Training & Instructional Design Specialist

DENSO International America, Inc.

gregory_moss@denso-diam.com

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Thanks for the help but that doesn't work for me.

I also don't like the approach.

I feel Adobe owes me a fix.

Control-J doesn't open it.

I searched and found

http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console

but it doesn't look like that in version X. I turned everything on.

Saved. Exited the program. Opened again.

Control-J doesn't open it.

My method of printing selected pages in the file to a new file

makes more sense to me than remembering deletePages(x, z)/

I'm a user, not a programmer.

Acrobat is word processing.

Dave Scott

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Report · Dec 13, 2011

Thanks for trying to help, but it doesn't work for me, either. ADOBE?!?

Report · Dec 14, 2011

Peg --

I printed my file to a new pdf file; then I could delete pages in that new

file. (File > Print > > click OK > Save

as...)

Agree -- Adobe needs to fix the issue.

Kind regards,

Greg Moss, CPT

Sr. Training & Instructional Design Specialist

DENSO International America, Inc.

gregory_moss@denso-diam.com

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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.