Problem with page order in two-page view

[rwpowell]

I want to recreate a photo album in a pdf.  Here's what I've done:  Scanned each page in album seperately.  Open folder with all images in Acrobat.  Organized the pages with oustide cover first followed by inside page and first page of photos.  Created a pdf.

Opend the pdf, selected two-page view and show cover page.  All is fine with outside cover page only.  Scroll down, opens two pages,  left half of screen is page 2 and right is page 3.  All fine.  Scroll down again and left is page 4 but right is still page 3.  Scroll down again and it's left page 4 and right page 5.  All the remaining page scroll down in the proper order.

for some reason, on that second scroll, page 3 is not replaced with page 5?

What am I missing?

[Tariq Ahmad]

Hi @rwpowell,

Thanks for reaching out. I understand how frustrating it can be when the page layout doesn’t match what you’d expect in Two-Page View, especially when reviewing documents like books or magazines.

What you’re seeing is actually controlled by a setting in Acrobat’s View menu. By default, Acrobat does not treat the first page as a cover page, which causes the two-page spread to start with Page 1 on the left — this can feel “off” for book-style layouts.

Here’s how you can correct that:

1. Open your PDF in Acrobat

2. Go to View > Page Display

3. Make sure the following are selected:

   • Two Page View

   • Show Cover Page in Two Page View → Make sure this is checked

This tells Acrobat to display Page 1 on its own (like a cover), and then start proper spreads from Page 2 - 3 onward.

Let me know if that resolves the issue for you. If you’re still seeing unexpected behavior even with that setting applied, we’d be happy to review a sample file.

~Tariq

[rwpowell]

Thanks for the info.  However, I already have two page view and show cover page selected.  I apologize if my description was confusing.  Let me restate, again, I have in View/Page display both two page view and show cover selected.

1. when i open the pdf, the first page is displayed alone. 

2. when I scroll down, a two page spread opens with page 2 on the left and page 3 on the right.

3. when I scroll down, a two page spread opens with page  4 on the left but page 3 is still on the right.

4. when I scroll down, a two page spread opens with page 4 on the left and page 5 on the right.

5. from now on, the two page spread continues with the pages in proper order, even on left odd on the right.

How do I get page 5 to come up in step 3?

thanks.

[rwpowell]

And, second post, here's another odd order.  If i swith to single page view, here's what comes up while scrolling:

Open pdf with page 1, then

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 3 again

page 4 again

page 5

the rest are in order.

???  Is it how I created the pdf?

[rwpowell]

Ok.  I can close this.  After my last post I got to thinking about how i created the pdf in the first place.  Seems like weeks ago when i first scanned the album and processed the images, I use Bridge.  i also used Bridge to create the initial PDF.  Then used Acrobat to order all the pages.  From there the order did not work.  I have now used Acrobat to include all the images and create a new PDF.  That views as expected...  Duh...

Sorry for confustion...