Mirror PDF file

[#1]

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?

[#2]

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?

[#3]

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:

Let us know if you have any further questions.

Shivam

[#4]

Rotating is not the same as mirroring... I don't believe the latter is possible in Acrobat.

[#5]

Yeah try67, that's what I'm trying to do. Is there any other way to do it? Thanks for the help guys.

[#6]

If you are on Windows, and you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you can print to the "Adobe PDF" printer and select to mirror the output, which will result in a mirror image of your PDF file. Because we don't know exactly what it is you are trying to solve, this may not help you with your problem, but just in case, here are some instructions: mirror image of pdf file (Edit PDF)

[#7]

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.

[#8]

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).

[#9]

That was the reply I badly needed since several time now. Thanks. This could have been included in tools panel straight. This is very primary requirement for post production.

[#10]

Thanks so much for this. Needle in a haystack! I never would have found this solution. We need to mirror image thousands of pages of text codes so this solution is perfect.

[#11 · Accepted solution]

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.)

[#12]

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.

[#13]

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!