If the page range is omitted, the rotation is applied to all pages. The page-range portion of the option value has the same format as page ranges in Section 3.5, “Page Selection Options”. You can use: qpdf in.pdf out.pdf -rotate=angle.Īpply rotation to specified pages. In Linux Mint 18.3 (I believe in other Debian derived distributions as well) you have a simple command line tool named qpdf.

'open the file in a PDF viewer, then rotate, then print using a PDF printer like cutePDF or PDF printer or etc'.

but then all the comments were very negative and stating 'the image quality is ruined'

'just use Adobe Acrobat Pro to rotate the file and then save the file'.

I tried searching and found a bunch of solutions but I had trouble finding what looked like an authoritative solution that uses a stable and robust Linux/Unix tool.įor example, here is a sampling of some of the haphazard solutions I found: When I scan documents that are landscape-oriented, the output PDF files are portrait and so all the PDF viewers display the scanned documents in portrait.įrom the command line, how do you rotate a PDF file 90 degrees?

Rotate 1 page in adobe acrobat x1 pro