This tutorial explains how to add pages to a PDF. We cover three ways to do this, first using our online tool PDF.Live, then using a Windows-based PC, followed by using an Apple computer. 

Why would you need to add a page to a PDF? Perhaps you want to add pages from one PDF to another, so you don’t have to send a bunch of different PDFs over the internet. An example is if you are applying for a job, and you want to merge your resume and application into a single PDF document. Or maybe you want to add blank pages to separate sections of a larger document. If you have the original file format (Microsoft Word or PowerPoint, for example), you can add and remove pages easily and then export the file as a single PDF. If you don’t have the original .doc, .docx or .ppt, it’s still quite easy to do using a PDF editor.

We’ll show you three ways to merge and add pages to PDF files: Using (1) PDF.Live, (2) Adobe Acrobat on Windows, and (3) Preview on Apple computers.

Using PDF.Live to Add Pages to a PDF

In this section, we cover how to add pages from one PDF to another using the Merge feature on PDF.Live.

If you want to add specific pages from one PDF to another, and you need to extract them, we have an article on extracting pages from a PDF that will help you do this.

Once you have your PDFs, head over to the PDF.Live studio and select the Merge option. PDF.Live’s merge tool does not require any downloads and functions entirely in your web browser.

Drag and drop the PDFs that you want to merge into the tool. You can either upload your documents from your computer or select them if they’re already stored within your PDF.Live account. You can also select more than two PDFs if you have additional pages you’d like to add.

Note that the number of files that you’re merging and the final page count of the document will be listed at the top of the merge tool. 

Once you’re done, select Complete PDF. You will then be able to download or print your merged document!

Once this is done, if you are a PDF.Live subscriber, you can click the Edit PDF button to rearrange the PDF’s pages in the order you need them to be. Simply download the merged document and then drag and drop it in the editor. 

Open the PDF.Live editor and select Manage pages. You will see small thumbnail previews of each page in your PDF.

You can click and drag the pages to rearrange them in any order you’d like! Note: This is a premium feature. In the PDF editor, you can also click the 3 dots … next to a page to further manipulate the pages in your PDF.

One of these options is Insert a page. You can use this to directly add additional pages to a PDF document. If you want to insert a blank page, select Blank and then specify which page you want the blank page to be in your PDF. You can also upload a page from a separate PDF to be inserted into this PDF. 

Adding Pages to a PDF in Windows

The current version of Windows does not come with a default application to merge PDFs. You will have to use an online tool like PDF.Live, a tool to merge PDFs from the Microsoft App Store, or a PDF editor such as Adobe Acrobat. Here’s how Adobe Acrobat merges PDFs: Open your PDF in Adobe Acrobat.

Find the Combine Files tool in the Tools menu.

Click Add Files and drag and drop the files you want to merge into the window.

Then, you can rearrange your pages as you see fit. Then click Combine.

You can also insert new blank pages by selecting Organize Pages and Insert on the right-hand side of the program.

Note: Adobe Acrobat requires a paid subscription to perform these actions. 

Adding Pages to a PDF in Apple Preview

Apple’s Mac computers have a PDF reader and editor installed in their systems by default called Preview. You can add new blank pages and merge documents with this program.

Open one document by double-clicking (Apple defaults to Preview). In the lower-left corner, you’ll see a + sign where you can insert another PDF file, insert a blank page, or import a page from an iPad or iPhone. For our purposes, we’re going to select another PDF on our desktop called “Myresume” and insert it into the job application.

Select the second document that you want to add. 

Use the thumbnail view on the left to click and drag to rearrange the pages.

Troubleshooting: Unable to Add Pages

If you are unable to use any of the above methods to add pages to a PDF, it’s likely that the originator of the PDF file has locked it. If a PDF has been locked or protected, it’s likely that you won’t be able to make changes to it. These are called owner-level permissions, and they are used when a content creator wants to copyright or protect their content from being altered without permission. If you know the originator of the document, you may be able to reach out and ask for the password to remove the protections. Otherwise, you won’t be able to alter someone else’s work.

What About Removing or Deleting Pages?

You might run into the same issues if you’re trying to remove pages from a protected PDF. For our tutorial on extracting, deleting or removing pages from a PDF, see How to Delete Part or All of a PDF.

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Do you have multiple JPG (also JPEG) photos you want to combine into one place? It’s a common need, whether you’re digitizing old photo albums, sending a batch of images to a client, or just trying to cut down on clutter. The short answer: You can’t merge JPGs into a single JPG file. But you can convert them into a multi-page, high-resolution PDF, which works even better.

Here’s why and how to do it. 

Why Can’t You Merge JPGs (JPEG)?

A JPG is a single image with a fixed resolution. You’ll sometimes see this format listed as JPEG; they’re the same thing, just two names for the same file type. Resolution is the number of pixels in an image — those tiny colored squares that, from a distance, form a recognizable picture. A typical high-quality photo runs 1920 x 1080 pixels or higher.

Why Can’t I Merge JPGs?

This is because a JPG is considered a single image with a fixed resolution. The resolution of an image refers to how many pixels are displayed per inch of an image. A pixel is a tiny square that contains a color and the resolution represents how many of these squares there are in the image (width X height). If you look closely at your monitor or zoom in on a digital image, you will see these tiny squares that appear as an image when observed from a distance.

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If you tried to combine two JPGs into one file, the result would be both images stacked into one giant image — not two separate photos in one file. A 100 x 100 image merged with another 100 x 100 image would produce one 100 x 200 image. Scale that up to full-sized photos, and you’d end up with a bloated, distorted mess that’s hard to view and impossible to browse like a photo album.

There’s no page structure in a JPG. No way to flip through images one at a time. That’s where PDF comes in.

How to Merge JPEG Into PDF Instead

PDFs are built for exactly this — holding multiple images in a single, browsable file, each displaying a separate image, clean, full-sized, and easy to scroll through. Think of it as a digital photo album where each photo gets its own page.

Here’s how to merge JPEG into PDF with PDF.Live:

1. Head to PDF.Live’s JPG to PDF converter.
2. Drag and drop your JPG files into the tool.
3. Click Convert. Each image becomes its own page in a PDF.
4. If the converter produces one PDF per image, head to the Merge PDF tool, drag in your converted files, and click Merge. You’ll download a single PDF with all your images inside.

If anything looks off — spacing, alignment, order — the PDF Editor lets you rearrange pages, crop, and adjust until it looks right.

When you’re done, you’ll have one clean file with all your photos ready to share or store. You can even compress the PDF before sending it, which makes it faster to email or upload without sacrificing much quality.

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Change the Order of PDF Pages

The size of a PDF can range from just a couple of pages to an entire e-book with hundreds of pages. When creating a PDF, it’s easy to accidentally place pages out of order or need to rearrange them. The problem is, once the PDF is created, it’s difficult to edit page order when you’re using a PDF reader. To rearrange pages, you’ll need an editing tool.

PDF.Live provides an online editor to change and reorder PDF pages. With the editor, it’s as easy as dragging and dropping the pages in the order of your choice. In this guide, we’ll show you how to rearrange PDF pages however you’d like.

Steps for Reordering Pages in a PDF File

To get started changing page order, you’ll need to convert your PDF into an editable PDF. Simply drag and drop the PDF into the editor and select Edit PDF. This will convert the PDF to an editable PDF and open the PDF.Live online editor, which functions entirely in your browser.

The PDF live editor has a lot of powerful editing options for PDFs. But today we’ll be focusing on the Manage Pages option located on the left side of the PDF.Live editor. 

This will open the Thumbnail page view. This allows you to quickly overview and scroll through the different pages of your PDF. You’ll see smaller thumbnail versions of your PDF pages to get a sense of the content contained on each page. There are also several different tools available for organizing, removing, or inserting new pages. 

This thumbnail view also allows you to rearrange the order of a PDF’s pages. Simply click and drag the page to wherever you’d like it to be. You will have to release your mouse click when a blue vertical line appears, indicating which page you’re going to put the page you’ve select din front of. Once you’ve dragged the page to the new location, you’ll see the new order reflected in the thumbnail viewer.

In the above example, we’ve rearranged the order of this 6 page brochure by clicking and dragging the pages around. Once you’ve got an order you’re happy with, select Confirm. The pages will be rearranged. 

Once you have all the pages where you’d like them to be, you’ll need to download the PDF again. The downloaded version of the PDF will contain all the edits that you’ve made.

If you have a lot of pages in your PDF, you may need to scroll up or down on the page organization tool to see all of the pages in your document. 

To combine more than one PDF, use the Merge function that combines two or more different PDFs. To learn more about doing this, we recommend checking out the Extract-Split-Separate a Page from a PDF article that details how to extract specific pages from a different PDF and then place them in a new PDF.

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