Export Rotated Pages

[Jack]

My printer requires that all pages of my 11" x 8.5" document be rotated 90 d. ccw., to facilitate printing. While I'm pretty sure that I had a 'rotate' option in the 'Export' workflow of past versions of inDesign, I cannot find it now. Accordingly, I first, manually rotated all pages within inDesign, but when I exported the rotated pages to pdf, the pdf generator created pages as though they had _not_ been rotated! So now, I'm really wondering what is going on here. Any ideas appreciated, as always.

I'm also thinking of a test document, 8.5 x 11,  with text and graphics, and exporting that. Of course, entering text onto those pages would require first rotating them, entering text, then rotating them back to 11 x 8.5, not a happy scene, lots of extra effort. I'm hoping that I'm missing some step in the export of my 11 x 8.5 document.

jwc

[Steve Werner · Accepted solution]

I seriously think you need to look for another printer. Printers should be doing the imposition, meaning layout for the printing process. It's NOT something you should be required to do!

The feature which you found (Pages panel menu > Attributes > Rotate Spread View) is only a convenient way to view pages like on a calendar where the pages are set up upside down. It doesn't actually change the printing.

[rob day]

It's easy to change the PDF in AcrobatPro. See Tools>Organize Pages

[Jack]

Thanks. I can also rotate pdf pages in Acrobat Reader. That is easier than rotating in inDesign. Rotation is still a single-page process, but my documents are less than 30 pp. in length, so the process is manageable, and easier from the standpoint of workflow to do it in Acrobat rather than inDesign.

Right now I cannot justify the expense of AcrobatPro, but thanks for the reference.

[BobLevine]

Yeah, you can rotate them for viewing but you can't save anything.