Problem with page order in two-page view

Question

I want to recreate a photo album in a pdf. Here's what I've done: Scanned each page in album seperately. Open folder with all images in Acrobat. Organized the pages with oustide cover first followed by inside page and first page of photos. Created a pdf.

Opend the pdf, selected two-page view and show cover page. All is fine with outside cover page only. Scroll down, opens two pages, left half of screen is page 2 and right is page 3. All fine. Scroll down again and left is page 4 but right is still page 3. Scroll down again and it's left page 4 and right page 5. All the remaining page scroll down in the proper order.

for some reason, on that second scroll, page 3 is not replaced with page 5?

What am I missing?

Tariq Ahmad · Answer

Hi @rwpowell,

Thanks for reaching out. I understand how frustrating it can be when the page layout doesn’t match what you’d expect in Two-Page View, especially when reviewing documents like books or magazines.

What you’re seeing is actually controlled by a setting in Acrobat’s View menu. By default, Acrobat does not treat the first page as a cover page, which causes the two-page spread to start with Page 1 on the left — this can feel “off” for book-style layouts.

Here’s how you can correct that:

Open your PDF in Acrobat
Go to View > Page Display
Make sure the following are selected:
- Two Page View
- Show Cover Page in Two Page View → Make sure this is checked

This tells Acrobat to display Page 1 on its own (like a cover), and then start proper spreads from Page 2 - 3 onward.

Let me know if that resolves the issue for you. If you’re still seeing unexpected behavior even with that setting applied, we’d be happy to review a sample file.

~Tariq

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