Can I use this to move figures and tables to the end of a manuscript PDF?

Yes. List all body pages first in your sequence, then list the figure and table pages at the end. Pages appear in the output in exactly the order you specify.

Can I duplicate a page — for example, to repeat a figure as both in-text and end-of-document?

Yes. Listing a page number more than once includes it at each position in the output sequence.

Does this work on PDFs exported from LaTeX or Word?

Yes. The tool works on any valid PDF regardless of how it was created. LaTeX-compiled PDFs, Word exports, and scanned documents are all supported.

What if my journal requires a specific file size and reordering changes it?

Reordering pages does not meaningfully change file size — no re-encoding or compression is applied. If you need to reduce file size, Deliteful also offers a separate PDF compression tool.

Rearrange PDF Pages for Manuscript and Journal Submission

Journal submission portals frequently require manuscripts in a specific page sequence — title page, blinded manuscript, figures, tables, appendices — yet the PDF you export from your word processor rarely matches that order out of the box. Deliteful's Reorder PDF Pages tool lets researchers restructure any PDF to meet exact submission requirements without purchasing desktop software.

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Academic publishers including Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis specify precise document structures for submission PDFs. A manuscript submitted with figures embedded in-text may need to be resubmitted with figures after the references section; a thesis chapter merged from multiple exports may have its appendix pages interleaved incorrectly. Resubmission delays cost weeks during peer review cycles, and manual page-level editing in free PDF tools is error-prone and time-consuming.

Deliteful accepts any PDF and reorders pages according to a sequence you specify — no page limit imposed by the tool itself. Because pages not listed in the sequence are excluded from the output, you can also strip submission cover letters or journal copyright transfer pages from a combined file before archiving the clean manuscript version in your reference manager.

How it works

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Sign up free with Google
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2
Upload your manuscript PDF
Upload the exported or merged PDF that needs page restructuring.
3
Map out your required sequence
Enter the 1-based page numbers in the journal-required order, comma-separated.
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Download the submission-ready PDF
Download the reordered PDF and attach it to your journal submission system.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use this to move figures and tables to the end of a manuscript PDF?: Yes. List all body pages first in your sequence, then list the figure and table pages at the end. Pages appear in the output in exactly the order you specify.
Can I duplicate a page — for example, to repeat a figure as both in-text and end-of-document?: Yes. Listing a page number more than once includes it at each position in the output sequence.
Does this work on PDFs exported from LaTeX or Word?: Yes. The tool works on any valid PDF regardless of how it was created. LaTeX-compiled PDFs, Word exports, and scanned documents are all supported.
What if my journal requires a specific file size and reordering changes it?: Reordering pages does not meaningfully change file size — no re-encoding or compression is applied. If you need to reduce file size, Deliteful also offers a separate PDF compression tool.

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