PDF Page Rotating Tool

PDF Page Rotating Tool is a tool that can rotate specified pages of PDF 90, 180, or 270 degrees. You can rotate multiple pages with different rotating direction in one command line.

PDF Page Rotating Tool is developed for three popular operating systems, Windows, Mac OS and Linux. The functions and operations of each version program are the same with the other two programs. If you have learnt how to use one of the programs of the three versions, you will know the usages of the programs of the other two versions. This article will present the usages of the Linux version program.

You can download the package of PDF Page Rotating Tool and then unpack them into any place of your Linux system. The runnable program is named pdftoolbox in sub directory bin. You can run the program in a terminal with shell commands.

The following are some examples for rotating pages of a PDF.

pdftoolbox in.pdf -merge 1E 2-end -outfile out.pdf

Rotate the first page of PDF in.pdf 90 degrees, and save the PDF to out.pdf. (E=East, 90 degrees; 1E, rotates page 1; 2-end, pages from 2 to end (the last) remain unchanged in out.pdf)

pdftoolbox in.pdf -merge 1 2S 3-end -outfile out.pdf

Rotate the second page of PDF in.pdf 180 degrees, and save the PDF to out.pdf. (S=South, 180 degrees)

pdftoolbox in.pdf -merge 1 2S 3W 4-end -outfile out.pdf

Rotate page 2 180 degrees and page 3 270 degrees. (W=West, 270 degrees)

pdftoolbox in.pdf -merge 1-endE -outfile out.pdf

Rotate all the pages of PDF ,in.pdf 90 degrees and save it to out.pdf.

If you want to know other supported options of PDF Page Rotating Tool, please just input the command pdftoolbox with no option or argument, and the manual will be displayed in the terminal window. The examples in sub directory test are useful to leaning the usages of the function options.

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Features of PDF Page Rotating Tool.