Few things look more amateurish than submitting a contract or medical record where half the pages are sideways or upside down. Similarly, mobile scanner apps often leave distracting black borders or shadows around documents. Here is how to fix orientation and trim margins permanently.
#1Temporary Viewer Rotation vs. Permanent Stream Rotation
Most PDF viewers have a 'Rotate' button on their toolbar. However, clicking that only changes the temporary display angle in your window; the moment you email the file to someone else, it opens sideways again!
MistPDF modifies the internal `/Rotate` tag in the PDF catalog dictionary, permanently baking the 90°, 180°, or 270° orientation into the document.
#2Trimming Margins with Interactive Visual Cropping
Our interactive cropping tool allows you to drag bounding handles to eliminate unwanted page margins, binder punch-holes, or scanner shadows across individual pages or the entire document.
Conclusion
Clean up crooked scans and misoriented documents instantly with MistPDF's rotation and cropping tools.
Często Zadawane Pytania
Will rotating a PDF permanently fix it for all recipients?
Yes. MistPDF saves the rotation directly into the document metadata, ensuring it opens right-side-up on every phone, tablet, and PC.
Can I rotate only odd or even pages?
Yes. You can select specific individual pages, odd/even subsets, or all pages with a single click.