Flip PDF pages: mirror left-right or top-bottom
1 min read·25 July 2026
Sometimes a PDF needs to be mirrored — for printing on transparent film, heat transfers, or creative layouts. PDFrust mirrors every page horizontally or vertically.
When to mirror a PDF?
Mirroring is needed for: textile transfers (the print is mirrored on film so the final transfer is correct), printing on transparent material viewed from the back, creative designs with mirrored symmetry, or correcting a scanned document that was fed in mirrored.
Horizontal vs vertical mirroring
Horizontal mirroring: left becomes right, right becomes left. Text reads backwards. Vertical mirroring: top becomes bottom, bottom becomes top — as if the page is folded along a horizontal axis.
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Text after mirroring
With horizontal mirroring, text is unreadable (backwards). This is intentional for heat transfers — after transferring to the final substrate, the text reads correctly.
Difference from rotating
Rotating turns the page (90°, 180°). Mirroring flips the page along an axis — it's the mirror image, not a rotated version. A 180° rotation gives an upside-down page; vertical mirroring gives the same but reflected.
All pages or selective
PDFrust can mirror all pages of a document at once. For selective mirroring: split out the desired pages from the document first, mirror, and merge again.
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