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How to Reverse Pages Order in Acrobat Pro DC

Community Beginner ,
Jan 12, 2016 Jan 12, 2016

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Old problem but the Javascripts out there are not working for me and the whole implementation of scripts in Acrobat Pro DC has become more difficult.

I get books that are scanned back to front so the PDF has page 300 of the book as page 1 of the PDF and page 300 of the PDF is page 1 of the book

I just need to select all pages and reverse their order. But this does not seem to be an option in any of the tools for editing, organizing pages.

The Javascripts out there used to add a menu item under the "Documents" menu:

app.addMenuItem({ cName: “Reverse Page Order”, cParent: “File”, cExec: “PPReversePages();”, cEnable: “event.rc = (event.target != null);”, nPos: 0

});

function PPReversePages()

{

var t = app.thermometer;

t.duration = this.numPages;

t.begin();

for (i = this.numPages – 1; i >= 0; i–)

{

t.value = (i-this.numPages)*-1;

this.movePage(i);

t.text = ‘Moving page ‘ + (i + 1);

}

t.end();

}// JavaScript Document

but I find no means to run this script...

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correct answers 2 Correct answers

Community Beginner , Jan 13, 2016 Jan 13, 2016

NO... I went to

~Users/MyDrive/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat

and there was no "JavaScript" folder there... I made one, put in the script and restarted Acrobat:  "Nada" nothing.

So back to the web and search:  I found this solution which does work;

In Acrobat Pro DC  Go to

  1. Tools --> [scroll all the way down] -->
  2. Customize -->
  3. Action Wizard -->
  4. New Action --> [Scroll down under left panel "Choose Tools to add: -->
  5. More Tools -->
  6. Execute JavaScript -->
  7. the new action will appear on the right panel --
...

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Community Expert , Jul 10, 2016 Jul 10, 2016

You can use this free script I've developed. It comes with detailed installation instructions.

Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Reverse Page Order (FREE)

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New Here ,
May 05, 2020 May 05, 2020

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The OP's answer worked for me. - Thank you for this, which should definitely be a built-in function!!

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New Here ,
Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! CANNOT Thank you enough! have been searching ALL OVER the web for a solution & this is the only simple, easy to follow instruction that actually WORKED! 

Appreciate the info-sharing

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New Here ,
Jul 18, 2020 Jul 18, 2020

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Thanks for solving this daunting problem. I had a 355 page manuscript that the pages were reversed. Without this help it would have been impossible to submit the work. The only problem I had understanding the above instructions was that you put "reverse page order" within the  \*   *\ space and type the java script on the line below. Muchas gracias. BTW, Adobe should be ashamed of themselves for not having this feature readily available. 

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Sep 02, 2021 Sep 02, 2021

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More tools - Action Wizzard - Action List - select reverse pages.  You will see a window pop up for you to reply to and there ya go!

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