How to rotate a PDF

The email with that PDF document you were waiting for as an attachment has arrived, hurray! However, if at this moment you find yourself here, reading these lines, it is most likely because in going to open the file you have just received you noticed that … you see it backwards and you would like to understand how to do it in order to view it correctly without having to ask again to send it. If this is the case, know that the solution is much simpler than it seems: you just need to rotate the file. How do you say? Are you a beginner with the world of information technology and do not have the faintest idea how to do it? Well don’t worry, I can tell you how to rotate a PDF.

Before you can get scared and think about the worst I want to point out right away that rotating a PDF is an extremely simple operation to perform and that depending on your preferences and needs, it can be performed either by resorting to the use of specific computer programs is online, without having to install anything on the multimedia station. Clearly the choice of which solution to adopt is up to you alone, based on your needs and preferences.

So if you want to find out how to rotate a PDF I suggest you take a few minutes of free time, get comfortable and concentrate carefully on reading this tutorial. I am more than sure that in the end you will be satisfied and that in case of need you will also be ready and willing to explain to your acquaintances in need of a similar tip how to do it.

Rotate a PDF on Windows PC

If you use a PC with Windows installed and you are looking for a program through which you can rotate documents in PDF format, I suggest you use  PDFill PDF Tools . It is a free software that includes several tools to create, convert and edit PDF files and that, in fact, allows you to rotate documents of this type in a very simple and fast way. The software also allows you to add watermarks to documents, split and merge document pages, scan and much more.

To rotate a PDF with PDF to JPG with PDFill PDF Tools the first things you need to do are therefore to download and install the program on your PC. To do this  click here  in order to connect immediately to the official website of the program, click on the Download now button   under the heading  Get this tool only  and then press the Download button   attached to the page that opens. Then wait for the download of the program to be started and completed, then open the installation package obtained.

Now, click on the Yes button first   and then on  Next . Then accept the conditions of use of PDFill PDF Tools by placing the check mark next to  I accept the terms in the License Agreement and  then click on  Next  twice in succession, on  Install  and then on  Finish  to complete the setup. If you are asked to install  Ghost Script  and  .Net Framework  accepts, fear not, they are not promotional software but two free components useful for the correct functioning of the program.

When installation is complete, wait for the main screen of the software to appear on the desktop then click on the  Rotate or Crop PDF Pages button , select the PDF file on which you intend to go to act and then click on the Open button .

Now check the box next to the Rotate by item attached to the new window that is shown on the screen and then use the menu located on the side to specify the degree of rotation of the PDF document: select the Clockwise 90 Degree option to make a rotation 90 degrees clockwise, select the 180 Degree option to rotate 180 degrees clockwise, or select the Counter clockwise 90 Degree option to rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise.

Also, specify the pages of the PDF document to which you want to make changes. If your PDF document consists of a single page you can also skip reading this next paragraph otherwise locate the Select Page item : and use the menu located on the side to indicate the page number of the file to rotate. If you want to rotate all the pages in one go, just check the box next to the All Pages item .

Once you have completed the procedure by which to rotate a PDF click on the Save As … button located at the bottom to create a new document correctly oriented. Then specify the location on your computer where you want to save the file, indicate a name for it by filling in the File name: field attached to the new window displayed on the screen and then click on the Save button .

Rotate a PDF on Mac OS X

If you have a Mac and you are interested in understanding how to rotate a PDF, know that to succeed “in the enterprise” it is not necessary to install any program on your computer. To rotate a PDF on Mac just use Preview , the utility available “standard” on OS X thanks to which you can view and make small changes to images and, in fact, documents in PDF format.

To begin with, locate the document stored on your Mac on which you intend to go to act and click on it twice in a row in order to view its contents through Preview.

Now that you are viewing the document open on your desktop, locate the Rotate button (the one depicting a rectangle with an arrow) in the upper part of the Preview window and press it until the PDF document reaches the correct orientation. If you are a lover of keyboard shortcuts you can instead use the key combination cmd + l to rotate the PDF file to the left and cmd + r to rotate the document to the right.

Keep in mind that if you are using Apple’s Magic Trackpad instead of the mouse, you can rotate a PDF using a very simple gesture, namely a movement of the fingers. To rotate a PDF with the Magic Trackpad, place two fingers on it and move them clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the orientation you want to apply to the file.

With the procedure described above, you change the orientation of a single page of the PDF, the one that is in the foreground. If, on the other hand, you are interested in rotating all the pages of the document at the same time, you have to click on the View button located in the upper left part of the menu bar and select the item Thumbnails from the menu that appears.

Then, select the thumbnails of all the pages of the document using the cursor or the combination of keys cmd + a and apply the rotation to the PDF by selecting the items Rotate left and Rotate right from the Tools menu .

Then save the changes made to the document by simply closing the Preview window. Alternatively, click on the attached File item in the upper left part of the menu bar and then select the Save item to save the changes made to the file.

Rotate a PDF online

Are you interested in understanding how to rotate a PDF directly online without having to install and / or use programs on your computer? Yes? Well then I suggest you take a look at RotatePDF . This is, as the name suggests, an excellent online service, free, working with all web browsers and compatible with all operating systems, which allows you to rotate a PDF in any direction, in a practical and intuitive way. The only negative note is that the service allows you to act only on files with a maximum overall size of 25 MB.

To rotate a PDF with RotatePDF the first thing you need to do is therefore to click here so that you can immediately connect to the service’s website. Now click on the Select the PDF document button  and select the PDF file on your computer that you want to rotate. You can optionally choose the document to act on by pressing the Other options menu and selecting From Google Drive , to import the file from your Google Drive account, or From OneDrive , to import the document from your OneDrive account.

Now put the check mark next to the entry relating to the type of rotation you want your PDF to perform:  90 ° clockwise  to rotate 90 degrees clockwise,  180 ° clockwise  to rotate 180 degrees clockwise or  90 ° counterclockwise  to rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise. Afterwards, click on the Rotate PDF button  located at the bottom to start the document rotation process.

In a few moments a new page will open with the word  Rotated document  that will warn you that your document has been rotated. After having rotated a PDF as I have just indicated, you can then download it to your computer by simply clicking on the Download item   which is next to the wording  Your document has been rotated! .