About Justin VanAlstyne Expertise I have a full working knowledge of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 - 7.01. I have experience in creating interactive PDFs, embedding multimedia, web-based forms, creating presentations using PDF, advanced prepress preparation, PDF web optimization, color management, and using PDF as a soft-proofing tool. I do not have a lot of experience using Acrobat`s advanced Javascripting features, though a lot of custom functionality can be built into a PDF this way.
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Expert: Justin VanAlstyne Date: 10/5/2004 Subject: Adobe Acrobat -Insert pages out of order"
Question I am using Adobe Acrobat 5.0, and trying to convert multiple TIFF images to one PDF file. There are many files, so I would like to transfer them all at once in the order that they are selected in. When I do this, (no matter how I sort the files in the windows folder), they are still randomly sorted when put into the PDF.
How can I select the images from a folder, and have them placed into the PDF in that exact order, without having to go back and manually change them, or drop them in the file one at a time?
Thanks!
Devra
Answer Devra-
Now granted I work in Acrobat 6 Pro now, but what I usually do is the following...
I have my scanned TIFF pages named so that they alphabetically fall in the correct page order, all within one folder. This is how Acrobat brings them in (e.g. "Page1.tif", "Page2.tif", etc.. or "Section A - Page 1.tif", "Section B - Page 1.tif", "Section B - Page 2.tif" would be the import order). I go to File>Open... in Acrobat, open my first TIFF file. With this done, I then go to Pages>Insert... I then select all my TIFF files that I want to insert. I choose to insert them after the first page, and they all come according to the name-sort.
Acrobat could care less how you arranged the icons in the folder window, that's just for your viewing pleasure. I can assure you that Acrobat doesn't do anything "randomly". There is always a specific methodology for the way a program does something.
