Rotate Pages

The Rotate Pages feature allows you to rotate the page contents of a PDF in 90° intervals. This feature rotates the page contents, which becomes permanent when the PDF is saved. See Rotate View to rotate the view temporarily, which does not change the PDF.

PDF/A documents or documents that have been certified or digitally signed cannot have pages rotated. The Rotate Pages feature for single PDFs is discussed here. There is also a Batch version of Rotate Pages.

Revu also provides de-skewing functionality for pages that may have come in misaligned (for example, from a scanner). See Deskewing PDF Content for more information about that process.

ClosedRotating Pages

There are two basic ways to rotate pages. These methods will rotate either the current page or all pages in the PDF, depending on whether Rotate all pages by default is enabled in Document Preferences:

There is a third way to rotate pages that lets you specify which pages are rotated:

  1. Select the desired pages' thumbnails on the Thumbnails tab.
  2. Go to Document > Pages > Rotate Pages or press CTRL+SHIFT+R. The Rotate Pages dialog box appears.

    • To rotate pages in this PDF and other PDFs at the same time, click Add Files. See Batch Rotate Pages for more information.
  3. Select the desired rotation direction from the Direction menu.

  4. By default, the Page Range will be equal to the thumbnails selected in Step 1. The following options are available:

    • All Pages: Sets the range to all pages.
    • Current: Sets the range to the current page only. The current page number will appear in parentheses, for example, Current (2) if page 2 is the current page.
    • Selected: Sets the range to the current selection. This option only appears if pages were selected prior to invoking the command.
    • Custom: Sets the range to a custom value. When this option is selected the list becomes a text box. To enter a custom range:
      • Use a dash between page numbers to define those two pages and all pages in between.
      • Use a comma to define pages that are separated.

      For example: 1-3, 5, 9 will include pages 1, 2, 3, 5 and 9.

  5. From the Apply To menus, select among Even Pages Only, Odd Pages Only or Odd and Even Pages and among Landscape Pages, Portrait Pages or Landscape and Portrait Pages. These selections work in conjunction to form the filter, so any pages to be processed must meet both criteria selected.
  6. Click OK.

Related topics

Deskewing PDF Content

Rotate View

Batch Rotate Pages