Organising pages — Nixt PDF docs

Most page commands are on the Pages tab, and act on the current page — the one named in the page indicator on the window’s bar. Every change on this page can be taken back with Undo, and none of them is written to a file until you save.

Turning pages

Turning a page changes the document: everyone who opens it sees the page turned. To turn only your view, use View › Turn the view instead; see Reading and navigating.

Command	What it does
Turn left	Turns the current page a quarter turn anticlockwise.
Turn right	Turns the current page a quarter turn clockwise.
Turn every page	Turns every page a quarter turn clockwise — for a scan fed in sideways.

Adding pages

Command	What it does
Blank page	Inserts a blank page after the current page, the same size as the current page.
Duplicate	Inserts a copy of the current page after it.
From a file…	Inserts every page of another PDF after the current page.

Inserting pages from another PDF

This is also how you combine PDFs: open the first, then insert the others one at a time.

Go to the page the new pages should follow.
On the Pages tab, click From a file… (or choose More › Insert pages from a file…).
In the Insert pages from dialog, choose a PDF.

The message says Inserted 12 pages from followed by the file name. The inserted pages bring the fonts and pictures they need with them.

To insert pages from a password-protected PDF, open it, remove its password, save a copy, and insert that copy. See Removing a password.

Deleting a page

Go to the page.
On the Pages tab, click Delete page (or choose More › Delete this page).
In the Delete page 3? dialog, click Delete.

Delete page is dimmed on a document with only one page. Bookmarks that pointed at a deleted page stay in the contents list, shown as going nowhere.

Moving pages

Open the Pages view of the side panel.
Drag a page’s thumbnail up or down to where it should go, and let go.

Bookmarks, links and the page a document opens at point at pages rather than page numbers, so they follow the pages you move.

Saving pages as a new PDF

Use this to extract part of a document or to split it into pieces.

On the Pages tab, click Save pages as a PDF… (or choose More › Save pages as a new PDF…).
In the Save pages as a new PDF dialog, type the pages in Pages. It starts with the current page.
Check the line under the box, such as 5 of 40 pages: 1–3, 7, 12. Choose where… is dimmed until at least one page is chosen.
Click Choose where….
In the Save pages dialog, choose where to save. The name starts as the document’s name followed by the range, such as report-pages-1–3, 7.pdf.

The message says Saved 5 pages. The open document isn’t changed.

Writing a page range

You type	You get
`all`	Every page.
`7`	Page 7.
`1-3`	Pages 1, 2 and 3.
`12-`	Page 12 to the end.
`-4`	The start to page 4.
`1-3, 7, 12-`	Several ranges, separated by commas, semicolons or spaces.
`9-4`	Pages 4 to 9 — a range written backwards still counts.
`3, 1`	Page 3 then page 1, in that order.

Hyphens, en dashes and em dashes all work. A page named twice is included once, and numbers beyond the end of the document are ignored.

The new PDF is written whole, so the pages you left out aren’t hidden inside it. A range saved from a password-protected document keeps the same password.

For the page ranges the Print and Save the pages as pictures dialogs accept, including odd, even and printed page numbers such as iv, see Printing and export.

Cropping pages

Cropping changes how much of a page readers show. It doesn’t delete anything.

On the Pages tab, click Crop… (or choose More › Crop…).
In the Crop pages dialog, type how much to trim from each edge in Top, Bottom, Left and Right, in points — 72 points to the inch.
Choose where with the switch: Every page (the default) or This page only (page 3).
Click Crop. It’s dimmed until at least one edge is more than 0.

The edges are the ones you see, even on a turned page. The line at the bottom of the dialog compares the whole sheet with what is showing, for example Sheet 612 × 792 pt · showing 540 × 720 pt.

Other buttons in the dialog:

Button	What it does
Crop to the text	Trims each page to its text, with a small margin. Pages that carry a picture, or have no text to measure, are left alone, and the message says how many.
Show it all	Takes the crop off, so the whole sheet shows again. Only shown on a page that is cropped.

Numbering the pages

A document has two sets of page numbers: where each page is in the file, and what is printed on it. A book’s front matter might be numbered i, ii, iii before page 1 starts. Number the pages… sets the second kind. No page moves.

On the Pages tab, click Number the pages….
In the Number the pages dialog, the top shows the current numbering — Numbered by position: 1 to 40., or a list of runs such as pages 1–4 · i, ii, iii.
To start a new run of numbers, fill in the row at the bottom:
- From page — the page the run starts on, by position.
- Numbered — None, 1, 2, 3, I, II, III, i, ii, iii, A, B, C or a, b, c.
- In front of it — text before each number, such as A- for A-1, A-2.
- Starting at — the number of the run’s first page.
Click Add. A run that starts on the same page as an existing one replaces it. Click Remove beside a run to take it out of the list.
Click Number them.

Each run continues until the next one starts. The message says The pages are numbered. Nothing moved — this is what is printed on them, not where they are.

To go back to numbering by position, click By position in the dialog. It’s only shown when the document has numbering of its own.

Once set, the numbers appear in the page indicator and can be typed in the Print dialog’s Pages box.

How the document opens

To set the page and layout a document opens at for everyone, see Document information.