How to Rotate a PDF Permanently

How to Rotate a PDF Permanently

Scanned pages often come out sideways or upside down: a sheet fed the wrong way, a phone held sideways. Turning them in a PDF viewer only changes your view, and the file opens wrong again for everyone else.

Temporary rotation vs permanent rotation

Rotating in a reader such as a browser or Acrobat lasts until you close it. To fix the file itself, so it prints the right way and opens correctly anywhere, the rotation has to be saved into the PDF. That is what Rotate pages does.

How to rotate PDF pages permanently

  1. Open Rotate pages and drop in your PDF. You see every page.
  2. Tap a page to turn it 90° to the right. Tap again for 180°. Or use All left or All right.
  3. Click Apply rotation and download.

You rarely need to turn the whole document: turn only the two or three pages that came out wrong, and the rest stay as they are.

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