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kellyjaye1
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August 20, 2013
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Is there a way for Acrobat Pro X to rotate pages slightly?

  • August 20, 2013
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I scanned a ton of pages and unfortunately all the pages tilted about the same amount in one direction.  Is there a way to have the pages rotated just a few degrees?  And if there isnt a way for it to do it to the file, is there a way to have it do it when it prints?

I know how to rotate 90 and 180 degrees but what if I just want to rotate maybe 8 degrees?

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Correct answer peter_4691

I just tried it, it corrected it nicely by itself. Try this deskew option. It worked for me. Thanks "kellyjaye1"

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Participant
April 18, 2022

Yes, I discovered it by accident.  If you go into Tools ---->edit pdf and open your document, then it will recognize your document as blocks of text.  If the blocks of text are rotated, they will automagically and before your eyes be rotated back into the correct position, so that the text is now straight relative to the page.  I noticed that for this to happen, I had to look at each page of my document.  So, you might want to check whether it would automagically take place on a really long document, where you didn't look at each page.

Participant
April 7, 2020

Adding to what naduarte1  had said, you can right-click the page you want to edit and then select "Edit Using" then select Photoshop. This will allow you to do the quick edit in PS and hit save and it will automatically load it back to the PDF file without having to add extra steps to export and import.

Participant
September 1, 2015

There isn't a way to do arbitrary rotation for an entire page in an Acrobat product.

But the only way I knew is:

- In Acrobat use "Export to JPEG"

- In Photoshop or Lightroom rotate the image (so easy, just press R and use the mouse) then save it

- Open the JPEG file with Adobe Acrobat Pro and save it as PDF.

Done!

Participating Frequently
May 28, 2015

thank you for finding this, works great!

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 20, 2013

Not really. PDF pages can only be rotated in 90 degree intervals. You can

try using Text Recognition, which might fix this issue, or another option

is to use the Add Background option to "stamp" the skewed pages on a blank

page, which also has the option to rotate them slightly.

kellyjaye1
Known Participant
August 20, 2013

Actually, I just discovered Tools/Document Processing/Optimized Scanned PDF.  Inside that, there is a deskew option and a few other very handy options.  I just tried it on 2 of my PDFs and it straightened them out perfectly as well as taking out the scanned white backgrounds and other things.  Its just what I needed :-)

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December 25, 2014

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.  Under Tools there is Content Editing, Pages, Interactive Object, Forms, Action Wizard, Text Recognition and Protection.  There is no Document Processing.  There is no Document Processing under any of the previously mentioned headings.  I can find no way to rotate a page by a user specified amount.

Not happy.