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December 16, 2020
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How to Rotate a PDF while viewing it in PDF Embed API

  • December 16, 2020
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How to Rotate a pdf while viewing it in PDF Embed API

Like Clockwise, AntiClockwise or 180 degrees rotate.

 

sample example is given below:

 

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      Peter27541665p8gf
      Participant
      September 19, 2025

      FYI: Ctrl-Shift-Plus and Ctrl-Shift-Minus work to rotate a document right or left 90°.

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      lsalemi
      Participant
      September 2, 2024

      2024, and still no support for rotation? This is a fundamental feature needed in countless scenarios. I was considering using Adobe, but lacking this essential functionality is making me explore other viewer options.

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      Bruno293364179org
      Participating Frequently
      April 15, 2023

      I'm also looking to implement the API, but the lack of rotation functionality is also a problem for me.
      I saw that since 2020 this feature has been requested. There is no prediction?

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      Bihag Acharya
      Participant
      April 14, 2023

      We deal with documents which have different orientation across pages, rotation is a very basic need for using the API

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      Bartłomiej285706509a7p
      Participant
      February 24, 2023

      2023, still no rotation...

      I have a lot of PDFs with scanned fitting instruction where text pages are in 'portrait' view, but some diagrams or large tables are in horizontal view, and theres no option to rotate it...

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      Clayton.G
      Participant
      December 17, 2020

      This is a major issue for my users; they're having to use the native Chrome PDF viewer instead, since they're reading scientific papers with many pages in landscape layout to accommodate large tables.

      Joel Geraci
      Community Expert
      Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 17, 2020

      How are these PDF files getting created where the pages are not in the correct reading orientation prior to posting?

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      Clayton.G
      Participant
      December 17, 2020

      It's ubiquitous in scientific publishing; they're optimizing for print, where a reader would turn the actual printed page to read the table. For a representative example, see Table 1 in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19814-6.pdf; often an entire page will be like that. When reading the article on screen, it's important to be able to rotate the page in the PDF reader.

      Joel Geraci
      Community Expert
      Joel GeraciCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      December 16, 2020

      Currently, page rotation is not an option in Embed API.

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