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January 13, 2016
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How to Reverse Pages Order in Acrobat Pro DC

  • January 13, 2016
  • 14 replies
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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...

Correct answer try67

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

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

14 replies

Participant
September 2, 2021

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!

Participant
July 18, 2020

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. 

icr-bsr
Participant
June 12, 2020

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

- from 1 user to another

Participant
May 5, 2020

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

WasunKe
Participant
June 22, 2019

Thank You many many times. Brahmanatha, you are so great !!!

kristophers43382672
Participant
March 21, 2019

Excellent. Many thanks for this.

Inspiring
March 3, 2019

Thank you so much Brahmanatha!

Your solution worked very well.

The old .sequ files that I could find on Internet, one way or the other they didn't work on Acrobat 2017

Again, many thanks indeed!

JFPublishers
Known Participant
July 22, 2018

You are my HERO. BLESS YOU. THANK YOU. I owe you coffee. And a million dollars.

Participant
May 11, 2018

It works! Many thanks

catheriney61426465
Participant
February 8, 2018

THANK GOODNESS!! You saved me hours. I had 100 pages backwards and now I'm golden. I bow to you.