Can Publisher convert a single-pages PDF to one with double-spread pages?

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Firstly, forgive me if I might be using some wrong terminology here.

I have some PDF versions of an old leaflet. There are two versions:

Version 1: This is a series of A4 (landscape) sheets. When the leaflet was made, these were printed out, stacked, stapled in the middle and folded, to create an A5 (portrait) sized leaflet. This resulted in all the pages appearing correctly in the finished leaflet, but of course the A4 document doesn't make any sense to look at on screen, because pages 12 and 1, 2 and 11, and so on, are alongside each other.

Version 2: The document is separated out into a series of A5 (portrait) pages. These are arranged in the correct order, so read OK on screen, except that wherever the original document had a double page spread, you only see one half at a time.

 

What I want to do

I want to take either of these PDFs and convert into a new PDF, which will open such that the paired pages are alongside each other, and read in the correct order.

Is this something that I can do easily in Publisher?

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In case it helps clarify:

 

[PaulEC]

Easiest way: create a new blank document, with the layout you want, then place the individual pages, in the right order, from version 2.

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59 minutes ago, PaulEC said:

Easiest way: create a new blank document, with the layout you want, then place the individual pages, in the right order, from version 2.

Thanks. This seems to work fine. I was overthinking it, I think.

[PaulEC]

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