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Automating adding blank pages to a .pdf doc

Explorer ,
Apr 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019

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I know how one can insert a blank page into a .pdf document.

I need to automate the process somehow.

I have a large document that is a set of 1- or 2-page documents.  I want to standardize the large document so it becomes a set of 2-page documents, so I need to insert a blank page in the 1-page documents.

I can recognize something on the page to identify the 1- and 2-page sub-documents.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.

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Community Expert ,
Apr 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019

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This is easily done with a script, and you can use it as a part of an Action (in Acrobat Pro) to process multiple files.

Do you want to add the blank page before or after the original one?

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Apr 16, 2019 Apr 16, 2019

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Thanks.  I will investigate this approach.

I will need to include some logic such as:

Loop through all the pages

If current page has certain characteristic

     insert a blank page before it

end if

end loop

I'll look for an example script of this format and type.

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That's much more complicated. The original request of adding a blank page if the file contains only one page is a single line of code, though.

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New Here ,
Feb 10, 2022 Feb 10, 2022

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Are you, or anyone else, able to share what that line of code or action in Adobe would be? I have the same issue.

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Mar 20, 2024 Mar 20, 2024

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I have the same issue also. I need to add blanks to PDF's where a there isn't a second page.

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