Can't Drag and Drop from pages bar in Acrobat XI Pro for Mac?

[onehunerdpercent]

MAC OSX 10.7.5

Acrobat XI Pro

In adobe Acrobat XI for Mac, how do I drag pages from the Pages Thumbnail sidebar into finder and make a new PDF?

In windows I can simply select the pages, drag and drop them into Explorer and it creates a completely new PDF with the pages I dragged.  I've tried everything on my Mac and I can't get it to extract this way.

It's extremely slow and frustrating having to manually right click extract, select the pages, open it in a new adobe window, then have to save the file through the menu. 

On windows I just select the page, drag to the folder, click , and rename.

[wlym]

This is something I'm noticing with the "upgrades" for Ps, Ai, InD and Acrobat since the subscription model started extracting money no-matter-what: Pile on the arcane features and aesthetic changes (grey on grey Photoshop interface!), ignore the bugs and paying user requests. I'm still using CC 2014 because of this downward direction.

[brent3b]

At least in Windows Acrobat DC, you can go into preferences and turn off the tabbed function in order to restore the original way the product works.  Presto, you can drag and drop thumbnails between open documents again rather than do this ridiculous "extract" stuff.

[blahblah32498324]

This is a total joke, I know exactly the issue you are having.  It works perfectly fine on Windows 10 but on Mac Acrobat Pro is terrible.  Here's an example of what works in Windows and not in Mac:

- I open a 5 page PDF that I created, add the customer name and save it as PDF sending it to them for signature.

- Customer sends only the last 2 pages back which are the signature pages, so I need to delete the last 2 pages from the original PDF, and then add the 2 signed pages to the end.

- On Windows Acrobat Pro (latest version) you open the original, click Organize Pages, delete the last 2, then open the new PDF with 2 pages signed, click Organize pages, highlight both 2 pages, DRAG them to the TAB for the original PDF which opens that tab, and then you position them where you want them in the document just like moving pages around in the same PDF.

- Let go of the mouse and ta da it works.

On Mac this doesn't work at all.  You go to Organize pages, highlight the ones you want, drag them to the tab above and nothing happens, it never opens the stupid tab.  It's not a protected PDF or anything, doesn't work on any, so I have to keep using Parallels JUST to manipulate PDFs.  You can't even copy and paste them into It's ridiculous.

To the OP, the easiest workaround I found is drag one of the tabs out to detach it and put it in its own window, then you can drag and drop them like before.

[Enchanted_difference1549]

Eventually fixed in Acrobat DC (2015.016.20045) on OSX.

After so many years....

[adwul62 · Accepted solution]

Had the same issue and found the solution, reply from try67in thread https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1348512

Zoom out, so the entire page is visible, then drag&drop works fine, well, at least, it worked fine with me.

I admit, it is strange though.

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