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Mixed Page Orientation

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November 1, 2012
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Is Acrobat XI Pro capable of handling mixed page orientations without splitting into separate files?

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roothd

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Create your PDF, including the pages that are wrongly oriented. Open the Page Thumbnails sidebar. Click/select the thumbnail of the page whose orientation you need to change. Select Options (a little icon above the page thumbnails sidebar, opposite the trash icon). From the Options menu, select Rotate Pages. Choose one or more pages in the dialog box that opens, along with the direction that you want to rotate the pages.

Voila! Hope this helps!

Abambo

Community Expert

If the OP hasn't solved his problem buy now, he will never find a solution. You're responding to a thread that started in 2012. The latest answer was in 2015.

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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emilyr80986539

Participant

I was having the same problem too., it was driving me mad. I managed to fix it in Preview by adding in the landscape pdf pages to the portrait pdf pages, rearranging and resaving. This is Preview's instructions:

Add a page to a PDF: Choose Edit > Insert, then choose Page from Scanner, Page from File, or Blank Page.
Move pages in a PDF: Choose View > Thumbnails or Contact Sheet, then drag the pages to their new location.

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Test Screen Name

Legend

Not clear why people are using Apple Preview in a complicated way, when we have a screen shot showing it is easy with Adobe software. Does that not work?

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sally6

Participant

I've just done this in Adobe Acrobat X Pro, and it's really very simple

Make sure the Tools panel is displayed.
Select the page that you want to rotate, and then click Rotate.
This displays the Rotate Pages dialog box.
In the Page Range area, simply select which pages you want the orientation to affect.
You can specify the page, all portait, all landscape or a combination.

let me know if you have any problems and I'll try to help

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surf2kona77

Participant

I spent two hours trying to do something that should have taken two minutes. Hope this helps someone else.

Here is how I converted a Word Document with both portrait and landscape pages to a PDF file with the “new and improved” versions of word and adobe from a macbook.

1) Do file save as PDF from word. This will create separate PDF files if you have landscape pages.
2) Select all PDF files in Finder and “right click” to “open with” Preview.
3) Landscape files can be rotated to the correct orientation with Tools, Rotate or using rotate icon above preview window.
4) Do print and scroll through preview pages to make sure it looks good.
5) Then click the PDF button at the bottom to “save as PDF. This is essentially printing to a PDF file from Preview.

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david_gavin

Participant

Acrobat still doesn't handle this, but if you export from Word using Print > PDF > Save as PDF it should work.

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Bernd Alheit

Community Expert

Acrobat can create and display pages with mixed orientations.

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DonKirkwoodAuthor

Participating Frequently

Yes but point is that it splits a document into different files which is not much use. How can it be produced as a single file?

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Dave Merchant

Legend

How are you creating your PDFs? Acrobat won't split up an existing file and is happy to create single PDFs from source docunments with varied page orientations, but printing to PDF is another matter.

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