# Adding a page break?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 26, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774 "2002-04-26T14:38:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![BZ00000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@BZ00000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BZ00000)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774/1 "2002-04-26T14:38:37Z")

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IS it possible to adda page break in an Adobe Acrobat PDF file? How?

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**Author:** ![Tattva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@Tattva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tattva)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774/2 "2002-04-26T16:25:18Z")

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Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, or just the reader? If it’s just the reader, then no, you can’t do it.

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**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774/3 "2002-04-26T17:58:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tattva \*  
> \*\*Do you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, or just the reader? If it’s just the reader, then no, you can’t do it. \*\*

Don’t be so pessimistic. I’m pretty sure that Ghostscript will let you do it somehow. Adobe would like you to believe that their Acrobat program is the only thing that generates and edits PDF files, but that’s simply not true.

This question would be better asked on one of the technical newsgroups (comp.text.\*).

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**Author:** ![columbusCL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@columbusCL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/columbusCL)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774/4 "2002-04-26T17:58:46Z")

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I have the full version of Acrobat and after looking through the menus and the help files, I don’t think there is a way to add a page break once the file’s been converted to PDF. You can insert other files into the document, though, or if you have the original document the PDF was created from, you can go back to that one and add a page break (like if the original doc was created in Word). That may not be an option though if you don’t have the original file or if you’ve made changes in Acrobat.

Check out the Adobe Acrobat Expert Center at [http://studio.adobe.com/expertcenter/acrobat/main.html](http://studio.adobe.com/expertcenter/acrobat/main.html) for tons of articles, tips and tutorials.

If you just have Acrobat Reader, you can only read PDF files and not edit them in any way.

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**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adding-a-page-break/105774/6 "2013-04-27T09:28:02Z")

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