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Shirley5C7F
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January 31, 2021
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Can you rotate a page so it stays rotated?

  • January 31, 2021
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Hi,

 

I have to make an eBook from some scans that were scanned sideways. I was able to rotate and view them upright and crop them, but when I try to connect them, they appear sideways. I didn't find instructions in Help. It is possible to rotate pages and save them in a way that they will stay rotated when the file is reopened or when you insert that page beneath another page (which I am to do with 40 pages and a front and back cover)? Thank you!

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Correct answer George_Johnson

I just rotated them all, and it worked - Thanks! But the redaction page says: "...the selected content will be permanently removed through black out. Acrobat will apply redactions and create a new file with “_Redacted” appended to the file name, with all marked content covered by black boxes." This looks as if the uglies will be replaced with black boxes, which would be just as bad. I want them to disappear entirely, making a clean white page. Is there a way to highlight these spots, specks, and shadows and delete them?

Thanks again! Shirley


Yes, you can configure the radaction properties so that there is no visible indication left behind. I can't tell you exactly how to do this at the moment, but it's certainly possible with the right configuration.

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George_Johnson
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January 31, 2021

Yes, Acrobat (and Reader) allows you to rotate the view, which is not saved when the document is saved, and Acrobat allows you to rotate pages, which is saved when you save the document. Here's a link to more information: https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/how-to/rotate-pdf.html 

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Shirley5C7FAuthor
Participating Frequently
January 31, 2021

Yes, it worked! Now I have to do it with 41 more pages, and I can connect them. Thank you so much! (In my version it was under Document/Pages/Rotate, but I found it.)

 

Would you mind answering another question? I would like to remove some extraneous marks, which must be a common task with scans, and so far have been able to highlight them using Select Image but haven't found a way to delete or remove them once they are highlighted. Here too, I have looked in Help but haven't found the answer. I tried pressing the Del key on the computer, but that didn't work. Maybe I have to highlight them as something other than images, or maybe there is a way to delete the "image." Thank you so much for your help! Tomorrow I will be rotating. 🙂 Thanks!

 

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February 1, 2021

Yes, you can configure the radaction properties so that there is no visible indication left behind. I can't tell you exactly how to do this at the moment, but it's certainly possible with the right configuration.


You do seem to be using a particularly ancient version of Acrobat, though. It may be worth saying which version, as Acrobat has changed quite radically since then, and we may give bad advice for your version.

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