Does anyone know an easy way to "bulk reorder" PDF pages? via /r/pdf

Does anyone know an easy way to “bulk reorder” PDF pages?

Hi guys,

I have some very old manuals in PDF format that i want to print off and turn into physical books. My issue lies with page ordering and double sided printing and I cant find a great way to fix this.

I’ll try to describe as best i can.

the pages are in A5 size but are being printed in a4 but with 2 per sheet. as an example of this, the first double sided page would have pages 2&3 on one side (from left to right) followed by 1&4 on the reverse. if i then folded that page in half to create a small booklet the first page would be 1, followed by 2&3 in the middle and page 4 at the end.

this means when arranging the pages in the pdf they need to read Side A: 4,1 / Side B: 2,3. or just 4,1,2,3 then 8,5,6,7 - 12,9,10,11 etc

Would there be an easy way to script or convert these pdf files to rearrange the pages in this order? the only reason i ask about an automated way is because i have about 50 of these manuals and most of them are over 200 pages.

any help would really really be appreciated

Submitted April 10, 2018 at 12:28AM by H-Bob-omb
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