Tuesday 11 October 2011

How To: Adobe Acrobat: Rotate Pages and Save Them

We received a document that was scanned into PDF upside down.

When we saved the PDF into our SharePoint site and opened it we then went to View –> Rotate View –> Clockwise. We then saved the PDF and re-opened it. But the pages were upside down when we opened it.

After some searching we came up with the following method for Acrobat X:

  1. Open the PDF document.
  2. Click on Tools
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  3. Click on Pages to open its menu.
  4. Click on Rotate.
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  5. Set the Direction for the rotation and click OK.
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  6. Save the PDF.
  7. Close it then re-open it.

The pages will now display correctly.

Hat Tip: AcrobatUsers.com Save rotated page.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

*Our original iMac was stolen (previous blog post). We now have a new MacBook Pro courtesy of Vlad Mazek, owner of OWN.

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1 comment:

Philippe Bernard said...

For those you can't install Acrobat, there is an online alternative to rotate PDF: http://www.rotatepdf.net