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Chrisa4H
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February 13, 2019
Question

Change pdf page from portrait to landscape w/o rotating text

  • February 13, 2019
  • 6 replies
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Hello, all,

I was sent a .pdf with the text layout in landscape, but the pages show up and print in portrait.  "Organize pages" will rotate the text along with the page which is not helping.  Is there another way to change from portrait to landscape for the page leaving the text in its current orientation?   In addition, while you can see where the text is supposed to be (hanging off the portrait), if I try to copy it on to a new .pdf document, some of the text drops out. 

Any help would be appreciated.

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    Ericka329903313p7e
    Participant
    April 23, 2025

    The page I needed had a chart in it so I exported it to excel and then saved as a PDF and did fit to 1 page and choose portrait (the page I needed changed was in landscape) and that worked. 

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      pat_8298
      Participant
      April 28, 2025

      ADOBE, this is definitely a flaw that has not been addressed. I'm disappointed to find all the cheat solutions for a program I just upgraded to. But thank you all for submitting them and saving me time searching.

       

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        ChristiAS01995
        Participant
        October 8, 2024

        2024 and this is still an issue.  I have the acrobat extension in my Chrome so that I can export out reports in pdf and it's defaulting to portrait no matter the content and does not even show the option to change the orientation prior to print/save.  This is a major flaw and causes an unnecessary huge waste of time when you have 25-30 reports to pull weekly.

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          Thomas28854652uuat
          Participant
          May 3, 2023

          I couldn't directly fix it. But I could cheat it. I copied the document into itself, and then cropped the bottom of the top sheet, and the top of the bottom one. And then both were oriented to landscape.

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            NavyNewyorker
            Participant
            October 31, 2022

            I had a document that I converted from Word to PDF which had long tables and needed to be printed in landscape for the pages they where enbedded in. What I found is when you goto print there is a checkbox labeled "Choose paper source by PDF page size" that modified the page layout of the pages with the tables and kept the portrait pages intact. I hope that helps...3+ years later :0)

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              jaym85408297
              Inspiring
              February 25, 2019

              Sorry for not checking in - in "print production", you can crop pages, and define page size.

              Maybe such trickery could help.

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              Ethan5FCA
              Participant
              January 30, 2021

              If you can convert the document to Word, you can use the orientation settings there to change it to landscape, which will carry over when you convert it to pdf. Hope this helps.

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                david36582549rus4
                Participant
                April 7, 2024

                I just did this.  I actually copied and pasted into Word.  Changed it into portrait (I needed to switch from landscape to portrait).  Select All, copy and create a new PDF from clipboard.  Worked like a charm.

                 

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                jaym85408297
                Inspiring
                February 13, 2019

                That's a head-scratcher. Have you tried playing with paper sizes? Define the page width and height so the text fits?

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                Chrisa4HAuthor
                Participant
                February 14, 2019

                Hi, thanks.  I've been looking around to see where to adjust page sizes and I can't seem to find where and "help" doesn't seem to be able to direct me to the right location.  Ideas?

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