A page that opens sideways is usually a scan that was fed in the wrong way round or a photo taken with the phone turned. Rotating it in a PDF viewer only changes what you see on screen. This tool saves the rotation into the file, so it opens the right way up for everyone.
Step by step
- Open the Rotate PDF tool and choose your file. Every page appears as a thumbnail.
- Under a page, click the left or right rotate button. Each click turns that page 90 degrees, and the thumbnail updates straight away.
- To turn the whole document, use Rotate all left or Rotate all right at the top.
- Click Download PDF. Your file arrives with the new orientation, named after the original with -rotated added.
Rotate only some pages
Pages you don't touch stay exactly as they were. That is handy for documents that mix portrait and landscape pages, such as a report with one wide chart.
Good to know
- Text, images and quality are not changed. Only the page orientation is saved, so the file size stays about the same.
- Nothing changes until you download, and your original file is never modified.
- If a scan is crooked rather than sideways, rotation won't straighten it. Re-scan it with the scanner tool, which corrects perspective.
- Everything runs in your browser. Your file isn't uploaded.