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Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by yamtaddle »

uniqueuid wrote: post #31
SllX wrote: post #5

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.

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar - Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam. - OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in…

It's legit one of the reasons I'll have trouble ever leaving macOS. I've not seen anything as good at its particular niche. It's the perfect intersection of lightweight, snappy, reliable (so many other PDF tools are crashy or prone to getting in weird, broken states), and featureful.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by merb »

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #18

When has Reader allowing rotating pages? I don't think Reader has ever allowed saving or modifying PDFs in any way save for perhaps filling form fields... What Adobe is doing, however, is to add icons and menu entries for editing functionality that will never work in Reader, advertising the features of their PDF editing software. That's, basically, yet another extremely intrusive advertising strategy that's annoying…

I wondered as well. adobe pro always needed a subscription/paid license.

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Post by mjrpes »

jnsie wrote: post #21

Oddly enough when I right click and and select 'Rotate view clockwise' it still works.

The rotate option under the view menu works, but doesn't let you save the rotated view. If you attempt to rotate pages from the edit menu, you get a pop up forcing you to subscribe to use that feature.

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Post by nathell »

uniqueuid wrote: post #31
SllX wrote: post #5

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.

Stuff people don't know about Preview.app: - Paste images that were copied to the clipboard. Just open Preview and press CMD-N - Split, re-arrange and merge PDF documents. Just drag pages into the sidebar - Sign documents. Click the annotation button in the menu bar, sign either on touchpad, ipad or hold an ink signature on paper into the webcam. - OCR (new with macOS ventura). Just click/drag/double-click on text in…

OCR works for me in Monterey.

Re: Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages

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Post by YVoyiatzis »

Etheryte wrote: post #27
SllX wrote: post #5

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.

I wish this got talked about more, Preview is both crazy good and free. You can split PDFs apart, merge multiple different ones into one file, use password protected files, edit and annotate them, add your signature, and so much more. Best of all, it just works, all the time.

Agreed, but the inability of Preview to edit text must be noted.
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