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Re:Missing page rotations

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 11, 2006 12:42 AM

This one had me stumped for a while. Finally solved it using sed.

Uncompress the document:

<tt>pdftk input.pdf output output.pdf uncompress</tt>

Replace all Rotate 0 entries with Rotate 90, 180, or whatever:

<tt>sed -i "s/Rotate 0/Rotate 90/g" output.pdf</tt>

Recompress the document if desired:

<tt>pdftk output.pdf output final.pdf compress</tt>

All done. If you want to only rotate a certain page or pages, you'll need to extract those pages to a seperate pdf first, rotate those, then recombine.

I feel really clever right now, hope this helps someone.

Niosop

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