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microbe Author

Level 1

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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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macjack

Level 10

111,204 points

Posted on Aug 29, 2010 6:27 AM

The only way I know of in Preview would be to be sure from your View you have the Sidebar. Then drag and drop pages in the order you want. You could probably set an Automator action through "Watch me do" but I don't do Automator.

-mj

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Oct 17, 2014 7:22 AM in response to macjack

This does not work. Reverse page order only applies to printing, not to creating PDF's. In the future, please test your solution before posting it. Thanks.

Oct 17, 2014 7:30 AM in response to hoyland

This is a Mac users forum. PDFtk is a Windows product.

BDAqua

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Nov 11, 2014 3:40 PM in response to Shuneet

Interesting, thanks! 🙂

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

CTP INTL

Level 1

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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

Reverse page order of PDF