diff --git a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
index 64fe1c0e..3b0a86e2 100644
--- a/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
+++ b/manual/qpdf-manual.xml
@@ -1698,9 +1698,10 @@ make
 </programlisting>
     If you wanted to take pages 1&ndash;5 from
     <filename>file1.pdf</filename> and pages 11&ndash;15 from
-    <filename>file2.pdf</filename> in reverse, you would run
+    <filename>file2.pdf</filename> in reverse, taking document-level
+    metadata from <filename>file2.pdf</filename>, you would run
 
-    <programlisting><command>qpdf</command> <option>file1.pdf --pages file1.pdf 1-5 . 15-11 -- outfile.pdf</option>
+    <programlisting><command>qpdf</command> <option>file2.pdf --pages file1.pdf 1-5 . 15-11 -- outfile.pdf</option>
 </programlisting>
     If, for some reason, you wanted to take the first page of an
     encrypted file called <filename>encrypted.pdf</filename> with