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Reverse page order of PDF

Hi,

I need to reverse page order of a PDF file. I tried Preview and Automator but couldn't find right option.
Printer driver has a reverse order option but when I did Save As PDF, it doesn't seem to work.
I tried a utility called Moonwalk but it does not run on my system with no reason.

Any solution? I prefer Automator action but any idea will be welcome.

What I'm doing is scanning documents. My scanner has ADF but does not duplex scanning. Thankfully, Automator make it possible to combine odd and even pages but the even pages should be reversed before scanning. If there is an Automator action for it, it will be great.

iMac G4, Mac OS X (10.4.1)

Posted on Aug 29, 2010 6:14 AM

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BDAqua

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Jan 29, 2015 10:43 AM in response to luz44

Interesting, thanks! 🙂 🙂

nctift

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Aug 5, 2015 1:58 PM in response to microbe

An easy method for those still looking...

Online converters are everywhere these days. Not sure about security or privacy, but this works:

https://www.konwerter.net/en/ReversePdfPages/

irwansg

Level 1

4 points

Aug 31, 2015 3:37 AM in response to nctift

this is crazy easy. thanks alot nctift! what a livesaver. you just need to have internet though

Sven3052

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Sep 5, 2015 11:24 AM in response to irwansg

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.

CTP INTL

Level 1

4 points

Sep 14, 2015 1:49 AM in response to Sven3052

I was having the same problem today and discovered that the app PDFpen has a Reverse Page script built into it.

Just FYI

Oct 8, 2015 7:53 PM in response to microbe

Shauneet got the answer, perfectly. Word doc, go to Preferences, Print. deselect reverse page order. BINGO! Now it converts with normal page order.

Apr 18, 2016 6:27 PM in response to luca85

+1000000000000000000000000 for this one! This was the easiest thing I have ever done! It will reverse pages for you WHILE it combines odd and even. Thanks for this answer

May 1, 2016 9:16 AM in response to edoxpa

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.

Tara 9

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Jul 25, 2016 11:25 AM in response to Shuneet

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!!!

Reverse page order of PDF