Move PDF Pages in Java

Aspose.PDF for Java lets you move pages between documents or reposition pages within the same PDF.

Move a page to another document

Use this example when a single page should be removed from the source PDF and saved into a separate document.

1. Open the source PDF Document and create a destination document.
2. Add the target page to the destination and delete it from the source.
3. Save both documents.

public static void movePageFromOneDocumentToAnother(Path inputFile, Path sourceOutputFile, Path outputFile) {
    try (Document document = new Document(inputFile.toString());
         Document anotherDocument = new Document()) {
        anotherDocument.getPages().add(document.getPages().get_Item(2));
        document.getPages().delete(2);
        document.save(sourceOutputFile.toString());
        anotherDocument.save(outputFile.toString());
    }
}

Move multiple pages to another document

Use this example when several pages should be transferred from the source PDF to a new document.

1. Open the source PDF Document and create the destination document.
2. Copy the selected pages into the destination document.
3. Delete the moved pages from the source and save both files.

public static void moveBunchPagesFromOneDocumentToAnother(Path inputFile, Path sourceOutputFile, Path outputFile) {
    try (Document srcDocument = new Document(inputFile.toString());
         Document dstDocument = new Document()) {
        Integer[] pages = {1, 2};
        for (Integer pageIndex : pages) {
            dstDocument.getPages().add(srcDocument.getPages().get_Item(pageIndex));
        }
        dstDocument.save(outputFile.toString());
        srcDocument.getPages().delete(pages);
        srcDocument.save(sourceOutputFile.toString());
    }
}

Move a page within the same document

Use this example when a page should be repositioned to a new location in the same PDF.

1. Open the source PDF Document.
2. Duplicate the target page into the new position and remove the original page entry.
3. Save the reordered document.

public static void movePageInNewLocationInSameDocument(Path inputFile, Path outputFile) {
    try (Document srcDocument = new Document(inputFile.toString())) {
        srcDocument.getPages().add(srcDocument.getPages().get_Item(2));
        srcDocument.getPages().delete(2);
        srcDocument.save(outputFile.toString());
    }
}