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ej77110754
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June 5, 2018
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PDF does not appear as a printer option in the dropdown menu on Acrobat on Mac. How does one add it please?

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Trying to print an existing PDF file in reverse order of pages, the printer options do not show print as PDF in Acrobat on my Mac. Please help.

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Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
Community Expert
June 5, 2018

The "Adobe PDF" printer is not available on the Mac, and relying a PDF (printing a PDF to PDF) is not supported on the Mac. What you can do is export the PDF to PostScript and then open the PostScript file with Distiller and convert to PDF again. However, refrying a PDF is almost always a bad idea. There are usually other ways to accomplish what you want to do without going that route. In your case, you can change the page order of a PDF using JavaScript. There is actually already an Action available that you can download if you have Adobe Acrobat Pro (which you have, because Standard is not available on the Mac): https://acrobatusers.com/actions-exchange/reverse-page-order1

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ej77110754Author
New Participant
June 5, 2018

Thank you Karl!

I have Acrobat Reader DC on my Mac, downloaded the file you kindly suggested, which when unzipped shows as Reverse Page Order.sequ

However, as a beginner in the Adobe realm, I am not sure/cannot find how does on make this file work.

Double clicking the file on Finder outputs the following message:

Adobe Acrobat Reader could not open 'Reverse Page Order.sequ' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

Could I please ask you for step by step instructions?

Many thanks again,

EJ 

Karl Heinz Kremer
Karl Heinz Kremer
Community Expert
June 5, 2018

Ah, you only have the free Reader. That was not clear from your question. In that case, you would not have the print to PDF option even on a Windows system. This is not a function of the free Reader, and only available in "real" Adobe Acrobat (again, only on Windows). The sequence file also requires Adobe Acrobat Pro, and cannot be used in the free Reader. The "Reader" is just what the name describes, it "reads" PDF files, and cannot save a modified file (with some exceptions e.g. forms and annotations).

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