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I'm publishing a book that has two narrative perspectives - the first is read from front to back. I'd like for the second to be read back to front

(a la a manga, though the words will be read from left to right, it's just that the first page will be page 199, and the second page will be 198, etc)

The plan is for the two texts to crash into each other in the middle.

Is there an easy way to accomplish this, other than uploading it to a text frame the traditional way, then copying and pasting each 2nd narrator page into the preferred order?

I'm a newbie! Thank you for any insights you can provide.

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In the print dialog, there is generally an option print reverse. So you could print to PDF half your book, then print again to PDF but in reverse order, and finally join the 2 PDF. 

Or if you prefer to use Export to PDF, you could easily prepare in any spreadsheet a reverse sequence of page numbers to paste in the Pages field of Affinity Export dialog:

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I apologise for any approximations in my English. It is not my mother tongue.

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Thanks, @Oufti, printing and exporting in reverse page order probably most often resolves the problem.

In situations where it is important to make sure that the content is not changed, you might need to use proper PDF editor to do the task. Other than Adobe Acrobat, there are more economical options like PDF/X-Change (for Windows), and PDF Studio Pro (for Windows, Linux and macOS). Using these tools, you would reverse a copy of the publication, and subsequently merge the two PDFs.

In case of PDF/X-Change (and PDF Tools), JavaScript is needed to do the actual reverse job:

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A JavaScript is needed also when using Adobe Acrobat to do the task:

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When using PDF Studio Pro, the reverse page order functionality is built-in:

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Thank you both, for your advice and recommended tools for going about this task. I think I'd better experiment with a handful of pages before I go too far down this primrose path!

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