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July 10, 2008
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How to permanently rotate pdf 90 deg?

  • July 10, 2008
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Whenever I open a certain pdf doc it is shown clockwise rotated by 90 deg.
Ok I can de-rotate it by clicking the appropriate menu in Adobe Reader.

But is there a way to save this pdf so that it is automatically shown correctly at next opening WITHOUT having to explicitely rotate it through AR menues?

If yes: How?
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    CardGenerators
    New Participant
    January 15, 2019

    Thank you so much worked for me.

    mohamedriyaazmmba
    New Participant
    January 5, 2019

    yes this is possible

    firstly rotate the document(ctrl + shift + r)

    then copy the document

    and after the that paste in on word and save as pdf

    then open the adope newly saved document crop the document and save it

    Legend
    August 31, 2018

    It was answered over and over and over.

    New Participant
    August 31, 2018

    Yes, I was just calling out a staff member for low IQ answer

    Legend
    May 11, 2018

    There have been lots of answers. Some right, some not, some confusing.

    Exactly what software do you have, lisag?

    Exactly what do you do?

    New Participant
    February 22, 2018

    I was not able to use any of the control/shift/r type suggestion on my free Adobe Reader BUT, this works!  Open file in preview, rotate to the view you want, save within the preview function.  Reopen pdf directly and it is saved!!

    Dov Isaacs
    Legend
    February 22, 2018

    Such hackery as opening in Apple Preview, rotating, and saving may do the rotation for you, but since Preview is not a fully-compliant PDF reader, there is a strong possibility that other aspects of your PDF file may be damaged in the process! We've actually this happen!!

              - Dov

    - Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
    New Participant
    January 24, 2018

    Thanks to the internet you can do this for free just google Rotate PDF. I'm not recommending any software.

    New Participant
    June 21, 2017

    I have Adobe Acrobat DC for Macbook: Go to TOOLS, click on ORGANIZE PAGES, then rotate and SAVE. Worked for me!

    New Participant
    June 5, 2017

    Best answer I found (from another website...)
    Open the Panel on the left edge (to get to the view where you can see the thumbnails of the pages). Then select the pages you want and right click. Then select "rotate pages". On my Mac version there were clockwise and anti-clockwise icons right there. Once thats done, save the PDF. This will save the new rotated view.

    (This works because this rotate actually rotates the pages and is different from the "view>rotate" option that does not actually "save" the rotated view)

    Legend
    December 22, 2016

    You are correct twice over.  1. It is not in Reader. 2. Everything left out of Reader is a marketing strategy for Pro by which I mean the option to rotate pages permanently. 

    However, making the document rotated isn't a marketing strategy. Reader opens PDF files correctly according to their true orientation (What the PDF creator writes).

    Pro has an Action feature that can act on a batch of files. Maybe it can rotate a batch that were made wrong.

    April 26, 2016

    1. Be sure to use Adobe Acrobat (I use X Pro) to open the pdf file (not Adobe Reader). On the Acrobat  screen, choose a recently opened file, or click "Open" at the bottom to search for the file you want.

    2. Click "View" on top toolbar, then "Tools" to "Pages" to "Rotate" (= first icon on top). Choose which way to rotate ("Direction"), then click button for "All" pages (or indicate which pages you want to rotate).

    3. Click OK to start the rotation.

    4. Save the resulting rotated pages file. Then you can open and read it with Adobe Reader.