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Mirror PDF file

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February 3, 2018
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Hi, I've been e-mailed a technical drawing for building stud walls in a block of flats. However I've only got the left hand side flat drawings. Is there a way within Acrobat XI that I can flip the file horizontally?

Correct answer Luke Jennings

Thank you Karl Heinz Kremer. Your suggestion worked perfectly! We're trying to prepare POWERPOINT presentations to be used on a teleprompter. We're recording videos of "expert speakers." Our speakers sound much more natural when they're speaking to their own POWERPOINT bullet points vs. reading from a written script using an unfamiliar piece of technology.

For the benefit of others who are looking for a way to flip PDFs, here is yet another way:

You can use an existing prefilght profile to flip the pages (Acrobat DC).

Tools> Print Production> Prefilght> (select the blue wrench icon).

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declanterry

Participant

For those on a budget, I found converting the PDF to a jpeg, flipping in photos, then converting jpeg to PDF worked brilliantly.

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Karolina22357005owj1

Participant

An elegantly simple solution! Even more so as I was searching for a solution to flipping a jpeg into a PDF!

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

Another option- from Photoshop, Image> Image rotation> Flip canvas horizontal> File> Save-as> Format> Photoshop PDF.

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greg5C45

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Acrobat Pro XI

I've found a better way. Zoom out so you can see the whole page. Go to Content editing and select Edit Text & Images. It will say the page doesn't have editable text or has scanned content AND it doesn't tell you but its now made the entire page an object. Left click on the scan and you'll see handles appear at the corners. Now right click and flip it. Done! Took a long time to find this. Happy!

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Joyce R

Participant

This works so well. Thanks a million !! I need it to mirror truss layouts for garage left and / or garage right.

Joyce

DENALI_B_MASTER_LAYOUT_G_LEFT.pdf

DENALI_B_MASTER_LAYOUT_G_RIGHT.pdf

Luke Jennings

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Another option is to place the PDF into InDesign or Illustrator and export to (or save as, from Illustrator) a new PDF.

To mirror a placed object in InDesign go to Object> Transform> Flip horizontal.

To Mirror a placed object in Illustrator, it's Object> Transform> Reflect.

Of course all the dimensions will also be mirrored and hard to read. You can cover the old type and replace it before exporting to a new PDF, if it's important to you.

I should also mention you are also assuming the right side drawings are otherwise identical to the left (door swings, utilities, etc.)

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ToonarmytelAuthor

Participant

That's exactly what I needed Luke, thanks! Door swings etc are not important as I'm just building the stud walls, dimensions I can easily copy over afterwards. Thanks again.

Adorobat

Community Manager

Hi Toonarmytel,

To rotate a page in a pdf file, click on the page thumbnail icon in the left-hand pane > select the page by clicking on it > right-click > rotate pages.

Select the direction, page range and save the file using File > Save option.

Below are the screenshots: