Mirror Imaging of a PDF Page?

I am using Adobe Acrobat 8 and Acrobat 9 to create and read the layers in a multi-layer printed circuit board.  One PCB layer per page, and I print the pages (layers) on clear acetate sheets using an inkjet plotter. After printing I "pin" the acetate sheets together and look downward through the layers.
How can I use Acrobat (any revision/any version--I'm willing to spend money) to mirror image certain pages in the multi-page file?
In my context, "mirror imaging" corresponds to flipping the circuit board over and looking backwards through it.

You would need to create a mirror image of the layer, in either the program that created the original layer or in a program like Illustrator, then use  some programming to make that image layer visiable

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