For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.
This ^. Don't give Adobe money is my motto.
Mine is don't give Apple money.
Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages
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#132For anyone on a Mac: all of these features in the screenshot are free with Preview. I assume OP is not, but something people should keep in mind.
And guess who developed CUPS? :)
Easy Software Products.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070109004135/http://www.cups.o...
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#133Microsoft's Edge on Windows lets you annotate and rotate PDFs.
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#134There are a bunch of open source software that does this
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#135I have an Acrobat Pro 7.0 license I paid for years and years ago. I have a single use case: I scan a lot of vintage computer manuals as a hobby. Pro offers fine control over compression options. Acrobat has been nagging me for more than a decade to register it (though I registered it when I bought it). A couple of times I've had computer crashes or migrations and getting 7.0 reinstalled on the new machine was a pain.…
ColorSync Utility on macOS (sorry, not sure of the right name in English) allows to add filters.
I've used it to great success for down-/resizing/-sampling all kind of PDFs which sometimes are basically full pictures on each page.
Create own filter, add "picture compression", mode "JPEG", move the slider just a little right from the middle...
Start ColorSync app, open PDF, select filter from lower left, click "Apply" and then either "Save" or "Save as..."
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#136I remember learning PostScript (~1993?) by reading the Red Book, and thinking how awesome it was that this company Adobe, which I'd never heard of, had created a new programming language just to solve once and for all the problem of specifying vector graphics to a printer, and had written such a nice book to help others use the language. It was magical to be able to write a text file in emacs, send it to the printer,…
Did you ever look in detail at Common Ground? IIRC, it was not only an Adobe PDF alternative, but the format was considerably more modern and powerful. Sadly, it seems like it lost just because PDF was similar to PostScript, a fact that never really made any real difference to anyone but programmers writing PDF parsers. (And PostScript smelled like the future, since Display PostScript was the basis for displays (well…
That sounds cool; hadn't heard of it. The web searches I've just tried to look for technical details yielded not much; are there any extant open specs?
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#137This was always the case. Adobe Reader has never had edit capabilities.
This is not new.
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#138Oddly enough when I right click and and select 'Rotate view clockwise' it still works.
Maybe not rolled out to you yet? I'm sure they have a progressive roll out system in case of breaking updates.
The only rollout here is they've added another ad for their subscription. Acrobat Reader has never had edit capabilities - you can't and have never been able to edit and save the PDF in any way (except filling form fields maybe?).
You could always rotate the view, that's not changed.
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#139More than ever I feel vindicated in the decision to avoid non-free software. It's limiting of course but in tandem with a fully reproducible system it is guaranteed that my current workflows will always be available... I can't imagine doing anything in software without that foundation. The recent news about Adobe removing Pantone colors from existing projects is even more egregious: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1…
This isn't an option for most professionals who need Adobe's products.