How to edit a multi-page PDF in Photoshop?

But for some reason Photoshop only allows you to work on a single PDF page at a time and then saving it individually, and this would make my task take ages.

Could I open and edit all the pages in the PDF simultaneously and then save them all into one PDF file again?

8,189 8 8 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 48 48 bronze badges asked Jun 23, 2020 at 9:11 Abdulrehman Nagi Abdulrehman Nagi 31 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 4 4 bronze badges Do you have access to Adobe Acrobat (Pro) and/or InDesign? Commented Jun 23, 2020 at 9:59

You are using a programme (Photoshop) which is not designed to edit PDFs even though it can open one and save out to the format. As stated you need a PDF editor like the parent software Acrobat - there are others available though, like PDFelement available in the Apple App Store.

Commented Jun 26, 2020 at 9:32

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Lucky for you (and all future people who find this question on google like I did) there is a built in system in photoshop to do exactly what you need without any other PDF specific software.

As a note, my transcribed process may be outdated as I am using Photoshop CS3.

  1. Open all of the pages of the pdf you intend to edit in photoshop.
  2. Save each page of the pdf as a separate photoshop document (.PSD)
  3. Make any edits you wish on any individual page and save the edits to that page's psd. You should be able to edit these pages as you would any other photoshop document/image.
  4. Next go to File > Automate > PDF Presentation
  5. Use the provided "browse" option to select all pages of the pdf ( or select "add open files" to automatically open all of the PSDs that you already have open. )
  6. Click and drag each file in the list to order them from top to bottom. The top file in the list will be the first page of the generated PDF and the bottom file will be the last page.
  7. Before you move on make sure you have the option selected for "Save as: Multi-page document"
  8. Select "Save" and you should be guided through selecting a destination folder for your generated pdf and choosing various export settings for your document.

You should also use this process to create multipage PDFs from any combination of PSD files, including combining the pages of multiple PDFs together into one document.