How to Rotate PDF Pages
Rotating PDF pages turns each page by 90, 180, or 270 degrees clockwise. It fixes sideways scans, upside-down pages, and portrait/landscape mismatches without changing any content. IXPDF does this locally in your browser, so your file never leaves your device.
Steps
- Open the Rotate PDF tool at/tools/rotate-pdf/.
- Select your PDF. Drag the file onto the dropzone or click to browse. The file name and size appear below.
- Choose rotation. Under Rotation (clockwise)pick
90°,180°, or270°. - Optionally limit pages. The Page range field accepts values like
1,3,5-7. Leave it empty to rotate every page. - Run and download. Click Run Rotate PDF, thenDownload result to save the rotated PDF.
Tips
- 90° fixes a landscape page that should be portrait (or vice versa). 180° flips an upside-down page. 270° is the same as a 90° counter-clockwise turn.
- Use the page range to rotate only the pages that are wrong, leaving the rest untouched — handy when one scan in a batch came out sideways.
- Rotation is cumulative. If a page is already rotated and you rotate again, the angles add up, so check the result before sharing.
Common mistakes
- Rotating all pages when only some are wrong. Use the page range to target just the affected pages.
- Wrong direction. Rotation is clockwise. To turn a page the other way, use 270° instead of 90°.
- Expecting content to re-flow. Rotation turns the page; it does not re-layout text. A wide table on a sideways page stays a wide table, just oriented correctly.