Rotating pdf images

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

A friend has need of a program to rotate pdf images (sheet music for pianos). Does anyone know of any freeware that does it?

Here is his actual request:

A piano playing friend put his laptop on his piano to play "CD Sheet Music" (pdf) files. He rotated the laptop 90° so that the narrow side is up. He now needs a program to rotate the pdf music image 90° to correspond. I found a free program (Irotate) that does that on my computer, but it doesn't work on his.
http://www.entechtaiwan.net/util/irotate.shtm

There is a commercial program Pivot Pro ($45) that works, but has a 30 day trial, then pay.
http://www.portrait.com/us/products/pp_overview.html


Q: Can PB be used to design a screen rotator, including the desktop and mouse?

Note: Adobe Reader itself can rotate the image, but it is a lot more convenient if done in the BIOS (my video can do that), or a separate program, as above.

[Mel Bishop]

In Adobe v8.?. Click "View > Rotate". Pretty sure that's what you want.

[Marco Pontello]

With [CTRL]+[ALT]+[ARROWS-KEYS] you can rotate the entire display anytime, with Windows XP.
If the videocard & drivers support that function, off course, but today near all do.

Bye!

[Michael Mattias]

>With [CTRL]+[ALT]+[ARROWS-KEYS] you can rotate the entire display anytime,

Learn something new every day!

(That might be a neat 'dirty trick' to play on someone if you are working with them at their computer and they have to run out for a potty break or something!)

(Hmm, I wonder if I can get that to work thru PC Anywhere when I'm logged on to a client system? That for sure would alert the client "Hey, I'm using this machine and I really don't want you to 'help' or change any settings right now!")

MCM

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Mel,

For some reason, doing it in Adobe is unsatisfactory for him (dunno why).

Marco,

Neat tip. except it doesn't work on my machine (Dell XPS with XP). I passed the tip on to my friend though.

Thanks guys.

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[Mel Bishop]

...doing it in Adobe is unsatisfactory for him...

Well, pick, pick, pick. :laugh:

Ask him if he tried Cntl-L for full screen. Looks good to me, here.

[Gösta H. Lovgren-2]

Well, pick, pick, pick. :laugh:

Well, you know musicians ....