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I've asked this over on the acrobat forum but no response so I'm trying my luck here.
I've got a 500 page pdf that's 4 up.
And I"ve got a 1 page pdf 4 up that's the reverse for the 500 pages.
I'd like to insert the 1 page pdf in between each of the pages in the 500 page pdf, effectively giving me a 1000 page pdf.
I've tried Multipage importer along with another script to insert a master page between pages but honestly - it takes far too long to process a 500 page multipage import then insert a b master with the page and export back to PDF, taking well over 45 minutes.
Especially when I tried job no.2 with a 1500 page pdf where a pdf needs to be inserted between each of those pages.
Plus it ties up the entire computer.
Does anyone know of a way to insert 1 page pdf in between a multipage pdf?

the script can be found here: Re: How can I merge even and odd pages of a PDF? (8th post down posted by jbaitis) - copy and paste the script into a text editor and call it "collate.js" (without the quote marks of course)
to install it, close acrobat, and then copy the script into this location (assuming you work on a mac using Acrobat XI)
/Applications/Adobe Acrobat XI Pro/Adobe Acrobat Pro.app/Contents/Resources/JavaScripts/collate.js
restart acrobat and when a file is open, there should be two new options available under "undo" in the edit menu: collate and reverse. collate works by getting file A and interleaving it with file B, so both files need to be the same page length. In Eugene's case, this would have meant creating a common back file that was as many pages as the front, but that isn't too hard to do via the finder and the "combine files into a single PDF" function in Acrobat.
That said, my earlier "bonkers" approach using the split feature worked too, but the collate script is far, far easier.
Colin

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