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Rotate PDF pages

Select the sideways pages, choose an angle, and download a PDF where the rotation is baked in — not just a viewer setting.

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Rotate PDF

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Your PDF viewer's rotate button usually changes nothing

When you press rotate in Preview, Acrobat Reader or Chrome's built-in viewer, you are often changing a display preference that lives in the application, not the document. Email the file and it arrives sideways again. This is the single most common reason people search for a rotation tool despite having "already rotated it".

A real rotation writes a /Rotate entry into the page object — a value of 0, 90, 180 or 270 that every conformant reader must honour. That is what this tool does. Note that rotation values are cumulative and normalised: a page already at 90° that you rotate another 90° becomes 180°, not 180° on top of a display flag. If a page looks correct in your viewer but wrong everywhere else, its /Rotate is probably already set and you are compensating twice.

How it works

  1. Drop in the PDF
  2. Click the pages to rotate, or leave all unselected to rotate everything
  3. Pick an angle, click Rotate, and download
Why nothing uploads. Every operation on this page happens inside your browser using JavaScript and WebAssembly. Your file is read into memory, processed, and offered back as a download. It is never transmitted. Disconnect from the internet after this page loads and the tool keeps working.

Frequently asked questions

Why does my PDF revert to sideways after I rotate and save it?
Because the viewer rotated the view, not the file. Some readers only persist rotation if you use "Save As" rather than "Save", and some never persist it at all. This tool writes the rotation into the page object itself, so every reader honours it.
Can I rotate only certain pages?
Yes. Click the thumbnails of the pages you want to rotate. If you select nothing, every page is rotated — which is what you usually want for a scan fed in the wrong way round.
What does 270 degrees mean compared to -90?
They are the same rotation. PDF stores rotation as a positive value of 0, 90, 180 or 270, so a -90° turn is normalised to 270°.
Does rotating change the file size or quality?
Essentially not at all. Rotation edits a single number in each page's metadata. Pixels and text are untouched, and the file size changes by a handful of bytes.
Will rotation affect printing?
Yes, correctly. Because the rotation is written into the document, printers receive the pages in the orientation you set rather than the original scan orientation.

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