Adobe Acrobat Pro DC allows you to do so much more than just Acrobat Reader! With Acrobat Pro, you can reorder the pages of your multi-page PDF file. If you only have the reader you can use my. Name it ' Reverse Page Order' and save. Now new action appears in the action wizard Actions List 'Reverse Page Order' it works! IMHO older versions of Acrobat had a scripts menu at the top of the screen, over on the right, totally accessible. Oct 12, 2011 Reversing the page order in Adobe Acrobat. A coworker stopped by my office seeking a solution to a dilemma. She had received a large PDF document in reverse order (page 1 of the document was page 100 of the PDF, page 2 was page 99, and so on). Since backwards workpapers are the type of thing that can drive an accountant to the brink of insanity. How to Reverse the Order of Adobe Acrobat PDF Pages. Open Adobe Acrobat. Find the PDF File in which you would like to reverse the pages. Now press CTRL+P or Apple+P to open a print dialog box. Check mark reverse pages (This will be under the print range section) Now select the drop down menu under Printer.
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I received an email containing a PDF document which was scanned backwards. I tried rotating it with PDF Complete version 4.0.65 but it didn't correct the problem. The user who emailed it doesn't have the original document to re-scan it correctly. How can I fix it?
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This should work for all pdf's
- Install a pdf printer like bullzip pdf printer
http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php - open the pdf in eg. Adobe Reader and select print,
- Select the pdf printer as the printer
- in the 'pages to print area' select more options and select reversepages.
This will create a pdf with the pages in reverse order
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If you want a Linux simple solution, pdftk is able to do exactly that:
Adobe Pdf Reverse Order Of Pages
EmilienEmilien
There is a better way to do this.
- Press
Ctrl + P
to bring the print dialog. - Choose
Microsoft Print to PDF.
(Not sure if this is available on windows 7 or lower; else chooseAdobe PDF
in the drop-down menu) - Press
More Options
and then checkReverse Pages
.
SaiSai
There is a PDFtk GUI for Windows too.
But this feature needs the Pro license, today (04/15/2017) the price is $3,99.
But this feature needs the Pro license, today (04/15/2017) the price is $3,99.
Link: https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-pro/
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Learn how to rotate, move, delete, extract, or renumber pages in a PDF.
To manipulate pages in a PDF, make sure that you have permissions to edit the PDF. To check, choose File > Properties, and then click the Security tab. Permissions appear in the Document Restrictions Summary.
Note:
This document provides instructions for Acrobat DC. If you're using Acrobat XI, see Acrobat XI Help.
You can rotate all or selected pages in a document. Rotation is based on 90° increments. You can rotate pages using the rotate tools in the Page Thumbnails pane or using the Rotate option (described below).
- Open the PDF in Acrobat DC, and then choose Tools > Organize Pages or choose Organize Pages from the right pane.The Organize Pages toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar.The Organize Pages toolset in the secondary toolbar.
- In the secondary toolbar, specify the page range on which you want to apply the rotation.You can choose Even Pages, Odd Pages, Landscape Pages, Portrait Pages, or All Pages, or you can enter the page number you want to perform the operation on.
- After specifying the page range, for Direction, select either counterclockwise 90 Degrees or clockwise 90 Degrees .
- You can also apply the page rotation on a specific page by clicking the counterclockwise or clockwise rotation buttons displayed in the page thumbnail view.Note:To temporarily change your view of the page, choose View > Rotate View > Clockwise or Counterclockwise. The original page orientation is restored the next time you open the PDF.
Extraction is the process ofreusing selected pages of one PDF in a different PDF. Extractedpages contain not only the content but also all form fields, comments, andlinks associated with the original page content.
You canleave the extracted pages in the original document or remove them duringthe extraction process—comparable to the familiar processes of cutting-and-pastingor copying-and-pasting, but on the page level.
Note:
Any bookmarksor article threading associated with pages are not extracted.
- Open the PDF in Acrobat DC, and then choose Tools > Organize Pages or choose Organize Pages from the right pane.The Organize Pages toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar.
- In the secondary toolbar, click Extract.A new toolbar appears below the secondary toolbar with the commands specific to the Extract operation.Choose Extract from the new toolbar to pull one or more pages from the PDF file.
- Specify the range of pages to extract.You can choose Even Pages, Odd Pages, Landscape Pages, Portrait Pages, or All Pages, or you can enter the page number you want to perform the operation on.
- In the new toolbar, do one or more of the following before you click Extract:
- To remove the extracted pages from the original document, select Delete Pages After Extracting.
- To create a single-page PDF for each extracted page, select Extract Pages As Separate Files.
- To leave the original pages in the document and create a single PDF that includes all of the extracted pages, leave both check boxes deselected.
Note:
The creator of a PDF document can set the security to prevent the extraction of pages. To view the security settings for a document, choose File > Properties, and select the Security tab.
You can split one or more PDFs into multiple smaller PDFs. When splitting a PDF, you can specify the split by the maximum number of pages, maximum file size, or top-level bookmarks.
- Open the PDF in Acrobat DC, and then choose Tools > Organize Pages or choose Organize Pages from the right pane.The Organize Pages toolset is displayed in the secondary toolbar.
- In the secondary toolbar, click Split.A new toolbar appears below the secondary toolbar with the commands specific to the Split operation.Choose Split in the secondary toolbar to see the document splitting options.
- In the Split By drop-down list, select the criteria for dividing the document: