Rotate is no longer a free Feature? Goodbye Adobe

[defaultgcuh9ti5czi9]

It's been a good 20 years, but if I have to pay for something like rotate, then it's time to uninstall used Windows 10 default pdf viewer. 

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[Test Screen Name · Accepted solution]

Never was. Been using for decades. You must have had a paid-for copy of Acrobat. Perhaps came with a computer or scanner. And now you lost it... but of course that's Adobe's fault. 

[try67 · Accepted solution]

The free Reader could only rotate the view, not the actual pages. This has always been like that and hasn't changed recently.

[Robert23391927uy6q]

Sorry. I have to disagree with the Experts. I've been using Acrobat since it was first released. But I have only had the need to rotate pages in the last couple of years. In that time it has always worked (it worked a couple of weeks ago) and I have never had to upgrade to get it. Let's face it, why would I pay for a "single" feature that is pretty basic? Over the decades I've shipped enough money Adobe's way... like for PageMaker after Adobe bought out Aldus.

[Robert23391927uy6q]

Sorry, I screwed up on my post. Please disregard. It was "View" that I was using. Sorry for the static.

[Mark23492867fbg2]

For those of you saying go to the View Menu and then Rotate view for the FREE Adobe Reader DC, IT was possible to rotate the view in the FREE version using the right click context menu on the page. Now whenever you do that the software asks you to subscribe to it. 

Most users have used the right click short cut for the ease of use and time saving benefits..Now to click on a View tab at the top of the screen and then click on Rotate is too time consuming.

I for one was able to ROTATE the VIEW with the Right Click context menu ever since i had the free version of Adobe Reader (over 20 years). 

Now i will use FOXIT PDF Reader instead of Adobe's Pay to play "Free" Reader

[Richard7429]

I was so frustrated by the change, that i had been using an alternative.
Finally did a google search and found this discussion.
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Once i understood there is a different menu item in the popup menu,
I was exploring ways that maybe I could redirect the action of the icon back to the view instead of rotate document.
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In the end, I found that you can add a rotate view icon to the tool bar.
See below ---
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Open a document
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Right click on toolbar - I clicked on bar that has page numbers, printer, magnifier, etc
Click "Show Page Display Tools"
Click "Clockwise" and/or "Counterclosckwise"
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This will place the ROTATE VIEW icons onto the toolbard next to the page numbers
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Unfortunately - the rotate view icons are identical to rotate document icons so you will have to remember which one is which.
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Hope this helps.

[JR Boulay]

Please read the best responses in this topic before posting messages that add to the confusion.

Rotating the view is not the same as rotating the page.

That's all, folks!