[Discuss] Utility to rotate PDF file?

pwillis p.willis at telus.net
Tue Oct 14 08:06:35 PDT 2008


Larry Gagnon wrote:
> 
> I downloaded a PDF file which is basically photocopy scans of an old out 
> of print book. The images are rotated 90 degrees clockwise, so you can't 
> actually read them on screen, unless you're an owl. KPDF does not have 
> an option to rotate. KGhostView does, but it either crashes when I 
> rotate or causes a serious loss of image quality making it impossible to 
> read. I also tried "pdf2ps", to see if I could then get a decent 
> postscript file to maybe do a rotation with in "gs", but that also 
> caused severe image loss.
> 
> Anyone know of a utility to rotate PDF file images?
> 
> Larry Gagnon

Gimp will rotate. You need to print to postscript first.

Peter


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