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Andy_Law
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February 21, 2023
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Changing Metadata page orientation

  • February 21, 2023
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Hi I have PDF file where i have orientated the pages from landscape to Portrait but when sent to my printers the pages are still printng landscape. They said alongside reorienting the pages i need to amend the PDF metadata and I was wondering how i do that, do i require a plug-in to maninpulate the  metadata.

 

Andy 

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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February 21, 2023

PDF Metadata has nothing to do with page orientation. They don't seem to know what they're talking about.

I would look for a new printing service provider.

Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
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February 21, 2023

There is data within a pdf indicating a page has been rotated. It's possible an automated prepress system is ignoring this setting (or has been set to ignore it). At any rate, they should have the capacity to fix it so the orientation is as desired when printed. When a pdf has both landscape and portrait pages, it can sometimes cause problems with imposition programs as well, as printers often try to print files with as little human input as possible. Page rotation is sometimes ignored, for example when a rotated pdf page is placed into an Illustrator file. A work-around would be to remove all rotations, using the fix I suggested earlier.

The attached screen shot shows a preflighted pdf with page 2 rotated 90°.

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February 21, 2023

Or you need to find a printer who honours the standard page rotation. I assume you didn't just rotate the view, and that it still looks roared when you close and re-open it?

Luke Jennings3
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Luke Jennings3Community Expert
Community Expert
February 21, 2023

One way would be to place all pdf pages into an InDesign file at the desired rotation and export to a new pdf, or rotate the pages in the original application, before creating the pdf.

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