Sunday, December 28, 2008

Rotating pages in PDF

Sometimes, you end up dealing with a PDF document that contains one or more sections whose pages need to be reoriented (perhaps switched from portrait to landscape mode) to better suit their text and graphics. To rotate pages in a PDF document, you select the Rotate Pages command on the Pages palette Options pop-up menu or choose Document>Pages>Rotate on the menu bar. (Don’t confuse this command with the Rotate View command found on the View menu, which rotates all the pages in the current PDF document for viewing.) When you choose Rotate Pages, Acrobat displays the Rotate Pages dialog box, as shown in Figure. You can select from the following options in the Rotate Pages dialog box to change the orientation of the desired page or pages:
  • Direction: Choose to rotate the image Clockwise 90 degrees, Counterclockwise 90 degrees, or 180 degrees.
  • Page Range: Determine which pages to rotate: Select the All radio button to rotate all pages, the Selection radio button to rotate only the page(s) selected in the Pages palette, or the Pages radio button to rotate the range you specify in the From and To text boxes.
  • Rotate: Limit what type of pages in the designated page range to rotate with these two drop-down lists. You can choose Even and Odd Pages, Even Pages Only, or Odd Pages Only from the top drop-down list. From the bottom drop-down list, you can select Pages of Any Orientation, Landscape Pages, or Portrait Pages.

2 comments:

Rights Management said...

Hi Friends,

Being able to rotate pages is often required when pages in portrait mode and landscape mode are mixed together in the one document as having both portrait and landscape pages can make it more difficult to read. A PDF document may have content suited to landscape view mode, like tables and photos, and also contain text-heavy documents well suited to portrait mode. Thanks a lot...

digital signatures said...

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