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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