How to rotate a PDF
- Select Choose file or drop your PDF on the box. You can add several files.
- Choose Rotate: 90° clockwise, 180° or 90° counter-clockwise.
- Choose Pages: all pages, odd pages (1, 3, 5…) or even pages (2, 4, 6…).
- Select Download when the file is ready. The new file ends in
-rotated.
What you get
A PDF with the chosen pages turned. Rotation is added to whatever the page already had, so a page that was turned 90° and rotated another 90° ends up at 180°. The page content is not redrawn, which means no loss of quality, selectable text and a file about the same size as the original.
When odd and even help
A duplex scanner or a sheet-fed scanner that flips alternate sheets often leaves every second page upside down. Rotate even pages by 180° and the whole file reads correctly. A stack scanned with front pages in landscape and back pages in portrait works the same way, with 90° instead of 180°.
Good uses
Fixing phone scans taken sideways, turning landscape slides so they print properly, correcting a document you received upside down, or preparing a file for a form that insists on portrait.
Tips
- Mixed orientations in one file? Rotate in two passes: odd pages first, then even pages on the result.
- Rotate before you number the pages so the numbers land at the bottom of the page you see. Add page numbers to PDF takes the rotation into account.
- Fix sideways photos before making a PDF with Rotate image.
- Combine the fixed file with others using Merge PDF, or remove bad pages with Delete PDF pages.
The work is done with the pdf-lib library on your device. Your document is never uploaded.