Reverse page order of PDF

This post is still very old, but it does come up on google quite quickly. pdftk will do this (and many other things) from the command line (and it's free) http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

This post is still very old, but it does come up on google quite quickly. pdftk will do this (and many other things) from the command line (and it's free)

http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

This is a good app. After installation, open Terminal and type this command to create a new PDF with all the pages reversed:

pdftk in.pdf shuffle r1-r? output out.pdf

in.pdf = the name of the file (place in the home folder) whose pages need to be reversed

r? = change the ? to the total number of pages in your document (actually r1 is the first page of the document in reverse)

out.pdf - the name of the document you wish to be outputed (the document will appear in the home folder)

Totally misplaced aggression here… Find me a solution for reversing the pages with a Windows app any easier, and I'll go with you. Until then, Acrobat and PDF's aren't Apple products, and Apple along with everyone else in the world apparently doesn't get that sometimes people scan pages in the wrong sequence and have to change them. It is fantastically idiotic for people to say "It would never occur to me that anyone would need that," as someone actually said on another thread. Stunning.

I have been using your automator function for a couple years now to reverse and interleave PDF pages. However, it broke with Yosemite. One of the functions you are calling is not available with the new automator, and my feeble attempts to fix your macro are not working. Can you post an update that works with Yosemite?

I just saved a .doc file as pdf and the order of pages was reversed. tried some of the solutions proposed here and ended up solving it in a much simpler

way at the suggestion of a friendly applecare advisor over the phone. They suggested I go to Preferences under Windows for Apple, select Print and under "printing options" deselect the "reverse print order." After doing this, when I saved the .doc file as .pdf, the order of pages was correct. Hope this helps.

It's 5 years after the original questions, but I got here today and just wanted to tell you there's a real solution for this:

PDF Nomad (Version 2.4, http://sintraworks.com/index.php/sintraworks/pdfnomad_home/) just does this out of the box. The functionality is a bit hidden - you need to select all pages in the sidebar and then the context menu offers "reverse order of selected pages...".

With this, PDFNomad has suprised me once again today - I bought this tool originally in search of a tool that can create PDF forms, which it does. Amazingly, for various other tricky PDF problems I encountered, in the end it was PDF Nomad which had a solution. Like today's page reordering. But it also does really complex tasks: for example PDFNomad can generate a table of contents (clickable side bar navigation, nested with triangles to expand/collapse subsections etc.) from PDFs which have only a printed, non clickable TOC. It just scans the text of the TOC, resolves page numbers, offsets them if needed and creates a real PDF navigation TOC from it. This has made many 100+ pages reference manuals much more usable for me with minimal effort.

Another solution that does not require an online service. Nor PDF Nomad which has many features, but 40$ is a bit steep just for reversing the order of a pdf document.

Install vipriser. https://onflapp.wordpress.com/vipriser/

Vipriser is free.

Print to vipriser as you would to a normal printer. In the printer settings you can reverse the order (as mentioned earlier) but the output will be a pdf file with the exact same size as the original but the pages in reverse order.

vipriser also helps when printing from adobe acrobat reader (which will not allow print to pdf) and really just needing a pdf.

For those that are having issues with steja's AppleScript in Yosemite and above, it is because the images from PDF function is no longer available in Automator. You can use the "Split PDF" function instead and then pass the output to the same applescript.

Just to clarify for others reading this - go to Microsoft Word "Preferences" (the directions to go to Windows confused us). This was the perfect solution and so simple. And, it makes sense too. We had been blaming Apple and all along it was a Word issue. It makes sense that Preview or Adobe reading "reverse order" would do so (thus screwing up all the pages of the PDF document). In a manuscript of 200 + pages a manual reshuffle is just NOT an option!

Thank you Shuneet for this fix!!!

Actually, you can do that by printing the .pdf as a .pdf and choosing "reverse order" in "paper handling"

Someone please answer this friggin' question.

200 + apps in Lion, and not one can reverse the pages of a PDF.

It's 2011 and Preview can't even reverse the order of a pdf. Pathetic. Good job, Apple.

Combine PDFs (shareware) also easily reverses PDF page order and performs many other useful tricks as well:

http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Software/CombinePDFs.shtml

Among other things, PDFSAM can invert all the pages in a pdf document. It's free and it does not require command line usage.

I was having the same problem. I managed finally to reverse the pages in a pdf by downloading combinepdfs, and then sorting pages in descending order. worked a treat.