Acrobat should behave logically: If I get 5 sheets of output when printing normally, I should get those same 5 sheets -- only in reverse order -- if I click the "Reverse pages" option. For duplex printing, the current implementation makes no sense.

Suppose a 3-page document. With normal page order we get:

Sheet 1: Page 1/Page 2

Sheet 2: Page 3/blank.

With "Reverse pages" we SHOULD get:

Sheet 1: Blank/page 3

Sheet 2: Page 2/Page 1

But what we actually get is:

Sheet 1: Page 3/Page 2

Sheet 2: Page 1/blank

Yes, there is a circumstance under which that would be desirable: If the pages in the PDF were in reverse order. I contend that is NOT a common occurrence. (And if the pages were in reverse order, it would be simplest to "print" them to a new PDF with the "reverse pages" option selected, which would put them back in the correct order.

There is a workaround: Add a blank page at the end of the document. But for hopefully obvious reasons it would be better to fix the program.

Not convinced this is a logical error? Then look at how Acrobat handles "Multiple" printing. I have a document that, when printed 4-up, has two full and two blank pages on the final sheet. If I switch to "Reverse pages," the sheets come out in reverse order -- but the "final" page (which now prints first) still has two full and two blank page images in exactly the same places as before. If the Multiple printing option used the same "logic," then when selected "Reverse pages," the first sheet out would contain 4 page images and the last sheet out would have 2 full page images and 2 blanks.