Rotate the pages of a PDF
Turn every page, or just the ones you name, and save it for good. Unlike rotating in a viewer, this is written into the file, so it stays turned for everyone.
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Nothing here is uploaded. See how the page enforces it.
Why the rotation in your viewer did not stick
Most PDF readers let you turn a page on screen, and most of them treat that as a viewing preference, not a change to the document. Send the file on and the recipient gets it the way it was. The rotate button here writes the angle into the page object itself, so it travels with the file.
Rotation is cumulative and in ninety-degree steps: a page already turned 90° and rotated another 90° ends up at 180°. Pages that were already at different angles, common in a scanned batch where some sheets went through the feeder sideways, each move by the amount you pick instead of all snapping to the same absolute angle.
Rotating only some pages
Leave the pages box empty and every page turns. Fill it in (2,
5-7, 10-) and only those move, which is what a scan with a handful
of landscape sheets in a portrait document needs.
Questions
+ Does rotating re-encode the page?
No. Rotation is a single number stored on the page object, so the content is untouched and the file size barely changes. Nothing loses quality.
+ Which way is 90 degrees?
Clockwise. 270 turns it anticlockwise, and 180 puts an upside-down page the right way up.
+ Can I rotate several documents at once?
Yes, and the same angle and range apply to each. Every file gets its own download.
+ Are my files uploaded anywhere?
No. The PDF is read and rewritten by your own browser. Open devtools, watch the Network tab while you run it, and nothing leaves. The page keeps working with your connection switched off, which is the part worth caring about when the document is a payslip, a contract or a medical letter.
+ Is there a size limit or a sign-up?
Neither. There is no server paying for your bandwidth, so there is nothing to meter. The practical ceiling is your own device's memory, which on a normal laptop means documents of several hundred megabytes.