Add pages to a multiple page layout in Illustrator

[antónioj65797935]

Hi. I am trying to edit a PDF file in Adobe Illustrator. It has 64 pages but I would like to add severall pages in the middle. How do I do that?

[Monika Gause]

You do that in Acrobat.

[antónioj65797935]

But If do that in Acrobat it makes some deformations in the document. That's why I don't want to do it there..

[Willi Adelberger]

What kind of deformations?

In what application it was created?

Which PDF viewer do you use?

[Willi Adelberger]

Illustrator is not a valid PDF editor.

Illustrator can only edit those PDFs which were created in Illustrator with Illustrator's edit cpabilities.

With all other PDFs you will cause damage.

Go back to the original application and do there the changes.

[antónioj65797935]

Yes, I said PDF because I have the habit to call PDF files do everything that is done in Adobe files. The file I am talking about was created in Adobe Illustrator but not by me. Since I am new in Illustrator, that's way I'm asking this.

[Willi Adelberger]

Are the Illustrator editing capabilities saved with this file? Yes?, then open in Illustrator (check if the version is NOT newer than your's). No?, ask for a new PDF or the original AI file.

[Luke_Jennings · Accepted solution]

Go to Window> Artboards, and open the fly-out menu, create a new artboard or duplicate an existing one, drag it into the desired position in the Artboards panel, then click on Rearrange All Artboards. If you go to Artboard Options and set them to view as a single column, the artboards will appear a bit more like InDesign pages.

Personally, I would place the PDF into InDesign using the place multipage PDF script and add new pages there, then export to a new PDF.

[Amartoni]

Great tip! Save me a lot of work! Thank you.

[Srishti Bali]

Hi António,

I would like to know if the steps suggested above worked for you, or the issue still persists.

Kindly update the discussion if you need further assistance with it.

Thanks,

Srishti

[jane-e]

antónioj65797935  wrote

Hi. I am trying to edit a PDF file in Adobe Illustrator. It has 64 pages but I would like to add severall pages in the middle. How do I do that?

Illustrator does not have pages. It only has artboards.