Duplicate a page range multiple times or take a pdf a multiply it into a new pdf several times

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August 24, 2018
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I feel there should be a simple solution to this that is already built into acrobat. With all the amazing things it can already do to manipulate a pdf file it seems strange that I cannot find a simple way to take a range of pages and duplicate them a specified number of times into the same file. Or even take a pdf and import it into a new pdf a specified number of times. Example my pdf is 10 pages (1-10) I want those same pages replicated 50 times in the same order to make a 500 pages pdf, going from page 1 to 10 and then back to page 1 thru 10 again... and so on.

Any clues would be appreciated.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Select all thumbnails in the Pages pane, then hit the ALT key and drag any thumbnail to duplicate all selected pages.

Repeat 6 times and then delete the excess pages.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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LisaAnnW

Known Participant

Seriously this should be an option! Why is it not? It's such a simple thing.

Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Why want you 50 copies of the same pages?

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LisaAnnW

Known Participant

That's kind of irrelevant. But if you must know, it's because my printer asked for me to do so. This is for event tickets that require sequential numbering. Rather than redoing the indesign file, I made a minor adjustment in the PDF file and wanted to duplicate it for 250 identical pages. I hate that Adobe wants us to use lame "workarounds" for things that should be a no-brainer for a developer.