How to rotate a PDF Mac

A friend of yours sent you a PDF document via email and you noticed that some pages of the file are upside down or rotated incorrectly? Don’t worry, this is a problem you can solve in no time.

You use a Mac, right? Then know that you can do everything without even downloading an application from the Internet. Just use one of the many tools included in OS X properly. Are you curious to find out which one? Then take five minutes of free time and find out how to rotate a PDF Mac thanks to the instructions I’m about to give you.

Let’s start by seeing how to rotate a PDF Mac using a tool that you can find installed “standard” on your computer. I am referring to Preview , the application that OS X uses to view photographs and documents in PDF format, perhaps you do not know but it includes very convenient functions that also allow you to edit PDFs without resorting to expensive alternative software.

If you have a MacBook Pro, a MacBook Air or an iMac equipped with Apple’s Magic Trackpad and you want to rotate a PDF using Preview , know that you can do everything from the trackpad with a very simple gesture , that is a movement of the fingers.

Try opening the document you want to turn, place two fingers on the trackpad and move them clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the orientation you want to apply to the file. Almost as if by magic, the document will be rotated in the desired direction and the changes will be automatically saved in it. You won’t have to do anything anymore.

If you don’t have a MacBook, a trackpad, or in any case you want to do without using gestures, you can rotate a Mac PDF by opening the PDF to be rotated in Preview and selecting the item Rotate left or Rotate right from the Tools menu . Alternatively, if you are a lover of keyboard shortcuts, you can turn the selected PDF left or right by pressing the key combinations cmd + l and cmd + r .

With the procedure described above, you change the orientation of a single page of the PDF, the one in the foreground. If you want to rotate all the pages of the document at the same time, you have to click on the View menu button located in the upper left part of the Preview window and select the Thumbnails item from the menu that appears.

At this point, select the thumbnails of all the pages of the document, using the mouse 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 .