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January 11, 2009
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How to Reverse Page Order in Acrobat Pro 9

  • January 11, 2009
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Hello Community,

I thought this would be an easy thing to do in Acrobat but so far I am finding it is not.

I am creating a PDF from multiple files, they are jpegs, and I am dragging and dropping them into the "combine files" window in the order I want them to be displayed. However Acrobat reverses this order as you put them in and then gives you no chance to switch the order. It gives you the option to move the order one by one (which is nearly impossible when the jpeg titles are img1824, img1623, etc.) so they other option is to add the files I want backwards, which my brain can not do, I like to work forwards, not backwards nor should I have to.

So once I create this backwards PDF, isn't there a way to just reverse the order of the pages? any help is appreciated.

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    12 replies

    try67
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 11, 2009
    Run this from the JavaScript Console (Ctrl+J):

    for (i = this.numPages - 1; i >= 0; i--) this.movePage(i);
    June 23, 2010

    How do you "run" the script? I got the box open, the script is in, so now what?

    claidheamdanns
    Participating Frequently
    June 23, 2010

    Under the Document Menu, you will find Reverse Page Order. Just click on that. (see attached screen shot)

    Hope this helps.

    Steve Werner
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 11, 2009
    There is no command to reverse the order of the pages. It never would have occurred to me that anyone would need this command.

    Why don't you just rename the files in the order you want them to be in if you have filenames like "img1824"
    HeleneFG
    New Participant
    March 13, 2022

    This doesn't work. My files are numbered 1-25 and when I combined them, they ended up in reverse order. I now need to have them appear in the numbered order, but can't find any way to do that. Very frustrating!

    New Participant
    May 10, 2024

    Adding this in 2024 in case anyone out there is still wondering. I found no command to reverse, so on Print Pages I just reversed the order  and saved a new PDF.  Example 100-1 instead of 1-100.