Adobe acrobat - Layers issue

[defaults6pp422wjdtv]

Is it possible to open 2 pdf with mukti pages as layers?

I have 2 pdf, each one with multiple pages.
I would like to create a layer with document A
and another layer with document B

It looks like only the first page of each document is imported.
Is there a work around?

Thanks for your help,

[Amal.]

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and sorry for the trouble.

You can import layers from a PDF or image file into a target PDF. Supported image file formats are BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, and TIFF.

1. Click the Layers button in the navigation pane.
2. Choose Import As Layer from the options menu
3. In the Import As Layer dialog box, click Browse and locate the file to import. If the source file is a multipage document, enter the page number you want to import in Page Number. If the target file is a multipage document, specify the Target Page Number in the Preview section of the dialog box.
4. Select one of the available import options available.

For more information please checkout the help page https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/pdf-layers.html#import_layers_acrobat_pro

Hope this information will help

Regards

Amal

[try67]

Each layer is indeed only one page. You will need to add a separate layer for each page of each document to achieve what you described. This process can be automated, though, using a custom-made script.

[Sday]

Hello try67
Your comment is very helpful. Thank you for suggesting this solution. I'll try to find such custom-made script (if anyone shared it to the community), or I'll learn to create it myself! 

[Luke Jennings3]

Another option would be to use InDesign. Use the place multipage pdf script (included with InDesign) to create a multipage InDesign file of your 1st pdf, create a new layer in InDesign and place your 2nd pdf into the new layer (I believe you will need to place the 2nd pdf one page at a time), Export to a new multi-layer pdf. Tip- you can also add an InDesign button to toggle between layers in Acrobat or Reader.

If you are going to be creating more multi-layer pdfs, you would only need to copy the first InDesign file, re-link to new pdfs and re-export.

[Sday]

Hello Luke
Thank you for your answer. This option would be great if we worked with ordinary PDF files. But in our case we prepare Accessible PDF files. And placing PDF pages in an InDesign document, and exporting agains in a Tagged PDF, results in having <Figure> tags for each pages inserted, instead of their correct structures <H>, <LI>, <Table> (etc.).  Plus, we have 25% of the pages that are provides by our client. So we need to 1) combine the Designed PDF pages with the Client's PDF pages first, with no footer at all and then 2)  add the layers of a Footer only PDF file that contains nothing else than the footers. With the Insert as a layer tool, it works great, but we have to do it 100 times if we have 100 pages to add our designed footer to. 

[Luke Jennings3]

I'm not sure exactly what you are trying to do, but you might consider the Replace pages tool. I believe this tool can replace page content without altering the existing tags. Your workflow would look something like this; Start with your combined pdf, add layers in InDesign, export to a new pdf, open your original combined pdf (with correct tags) and go to Tools> Organize pages> Replace pages (select the new layered pdf from InDesign as the replacement pages).  The new pdf should preserve the desired tags and also have the desired layers.

[Sday]

Thank you Luke. I have found the right answer to my problem, as I already have answered to try67. I need to add the footers as Layers or Backgounds, but adding as a Background is the same loooong process. In the Insert window we are asked to specify from which page of document A to which page of document B, and does not offer the possibiliy to do it on a range of pages 1-200 (A) to 1-200 (B) in one action.