Create Custom Tool to rotate odd and even pages differently?

[phidler]

I very frequently need to do this routine: choose Organize Pages, select all odd pages, rotate 90º CW, select all even pages, rotate CCW. I'd like to create a Custom Tool to do this but don't see how to select odd/even pages. Any advice?

[try67 · Accepted solution]

You can do it by adding this JavaScript code to your Custom Tool:

for (var i=0; i<this.numPages; i++) {
	if (i%2==0) this.setPageRotations(i, i, 90);
	else this.setPageRotations(i, i, 270);
}

[phidler]

Thank you. I'm sure I've done something incorrectly; when I click either "Start" or "Execute JavaScript" from the tool I created in Action Wizard with your script I get this dialog box, but when I click OK it reports "Completed" with no change in page orientation.

[try67]

Works fine for me...

[try67]

Maybe the pages in your file are already rotated (even if they don't look like it). To accommodate for that try this code:

for (var i=0; i<this.numPages; i++) {
	var pageRotation = this.getPageRotation(i);
	if (i%2==0) pageRotation+=90;
	else pageRotation-=90;
	
	if (pageRotation==360) pageRotation = 0;
	else if (pageRotation==-90) pageRotation = 270;
	
	this.setPageRotations(i, i, pageRotation);
}

[phidler]

Brilliant! That was exactly it; I was trying the script on a file to which I had already applied page rotations. When testing it with a fresh scan it works exactly as I need. Thanks a million!