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Here's the answer: Put this file in your Acrobat Javascipt Folder (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Acrobat\Javascripts) and start Acrobat.  The Reverse option will be under the Document menu underneath Header&Footer.  In case you do not want to download the script I have copied it below.  Works like a charm.

app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Reverse", cParent: "Document", 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

This is a special thank you for solving a problem that has eluded me for too long.

I do appreciate it. So simple but so effective! (And I don't have a Macintosh)

Ed3618

Anyone have any idea where this script should be put on a Mac. I could really use this script!!

Thanks for writing it!

How do you "run" the script? I got the box open, the script is in, so now what?

You must have a different version than me, I dont have that option. (I have cs4 Acrobat 9 Pro)

I ended up printing to PDF and selecting reverse page order there.

Ah, yes, I remember now, it used to show up under the Header & Footer in the Document menu. I changed the code to make it show directly under the Document menu.

Are you on Mac or PC?

That still shouldn't be a problem, as long as you installed it in the right place.

I take back what I said about changing the code to make it fall in "the right place" in the menu. I am looking at my copy of the code right now, and I only changed the Menu Name for the command.

Here's what I have:

app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Reverse Page Order", cParent: "Document", 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

Thank you so much!

superb!!!!!!........it worked.................

I'm having the same problem, and I can hardly make sense of the advice you've been given, so I'm just going to tell the recipient of my document to reverse the pages themself. That this is an advanced command that requires the use of scripts seems completely absurd to me, and just reinforces my total lack of interest in updating my old software. I have the trial version of Adobe Acrobat Pro X at the moment and as soon as I can go back to my dinosaur software (and get my serial codes, etc, since I'm traveling), I'll do so. Advanced functions are great, but it's really frustrating that the user side isn't taken into consideration more in the process of updating software.

how i can use it in acrobat x in windows 7 64bit?

ich copied the scipt to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\Javascripts an edited

app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Reverse", cParent: "Document", cExec: "PPReversePages();", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);", nPos: 0

to

app.addMenuItem({ cName: "Reverse", cParent: "View", cExec: "PPReversePages();", cEnable: "event.rc = (event.target != null);", nPos: 0

i tried too, to find the folder "C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\JavaScripts" but the folder "JavaScripts" doesn't exist in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Acrobat\10.0\

i created the folder an copied the script, but it still doesn't works.

regards

Flocci

Thanks so much, a huge help in a 38 page pdf