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Home Newsletter February 2008

How To Rearrange Pages In A PDF

Document
Learn how to move pages around in a PDF document
using PDFtoolkit VCL.
Mohammed Najeemudheen and Suraj C. B.
PRODUCT

In this article, we will see how to rearrange pages in an existing PDF

document. For an example, we will use a document with say 10 pages.
We will try to move page 2 to the position of page 5.

PDFtoolkit VCL

LANGUAGE

Delphi

PLATFORM
LEVEL

Windows
Basic

First, we use the ExtractPagesTo() method of TgtPDFDocument class to

extract Page 2. Next, we delete Page 2 from the document using DeletePages() method. Finally, we
copy the extracted page from the temporary document to location of Page 5 in the original document
using the method InsertPagesFrom().

var
LFrom: String;
LToPage: Integer;
LTempDoc, PDFDoc: TgtPDFDocument;
Lstream:TMemoryStream;
begin
try
PDFDoc := TgtPDFDocument.Create(Nil);
// Load input PDF document
PDFDoc.LoadFromFile('Input.pdf');
// Disable interactivity
PDFDoc.ShowSetupDialog := False;
PDFDoc.OpenAfterSave := False;
// Create a memory stream
Lstream :=TMemoryStream.Create;
// Create a temporary PDF document object
LTempDoc := TgtPDFDocument.Create(self);
LTempDoc.ShowSetupDialog := False;
LTempDoc.OpenAfterSave := False;
// Page position from a page
// needs to be moved
LFrom := '2';

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// Page position to which a page
// needs to moved
LToPage := 5;
if LToPage <= PDFDoc.PageCount then
begin
// Extract page 1
// to a temporary document
PDFDoc.ExtractPagesTo(LTempDoc,LFrom);
// Save extracted page to a memory stream
LTempDoc.SaveToStream(Lstream);
// Delete extracted page from input
// PDF document
PDFDoc.DeletePages(LFrom);
// Load the temporary PDF document
LTempDoc.LoadFromStream(Lstream);
// Insert the extracted page (currently
// page 1 in the temporary document) at
// position page 5
PDFDoc.InsertPagesFrom(LTempDoc,'1',LToPage-1);
// Save modified document
PDFDoc.SaveToFile('Output.pdf');
end
else
ShowMessage('Page out of range ! Max Page =
'+IntToStr(PDFDoc.PageCount));
finally
LTempDoc.free;
Lstream.Free;
PDFDoc.Free;
end;

You may have wondered why we are saving the temporary document object to a memory stream.
When we call ExtractPagesTo(), it does retrieve Page 2 to the LTempDoc object, holding just a
reference to that page but not yet representing the structure of a wholesome PDF document.
For this reason, we save it to a memory stream and load it again from that memory stream. When we
do this, LTempDoc represents a wholesome independent PDF document with a very retrievable Page 1
(originally Page 2), which we can then insert at position of Page 5.

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