I’ve been working on a site for a client and they supplied some pdfs that were portrait and needed to be landscape which is not that easy to achieve in acrobat, so I decided that I would rotate the content 90 degrees in the Transform graphics dialogue box.
When I published the site the rotated pdfs were missing, so I did a test with a pdf that came from Softpress to see if it was something to do with the pdf, but, as you can see from the test I did, this wasn’t the case and it is probably a bug in the software.
I’ve also found out that Jpegs and .eps files rotate correctly but Illustrator .ai files don’t. Might be something to do with the pdf format because native illustrator files are based on the pdf format.
I’ll see if I can rotate the pdfs in Preview so that I can use them.
The pdftest directory is empty… also, do you have Acrobat Reader instead of
Acrobat Pro?
I don’t think it’s a software bug, but I do think there must be an easier
way to do this.
Looking forward to your sample.
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Ernie Simpson
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 7:10 AM, SteveB email@hidden wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve been working on a site for a client and they supplied some pdfs that
were portrait and needed to be landscape which is not that easy to achieve
in acrobat, so I decided that I would rotate the content 90 degrees in the
Transform graphics dialogue box.
When I published the site the rotated pdfs were missing, so I did a test
with a pdf that came from Softpress to see if it was something to do with
the pdf, but, as you can see from the test I did, this wasn’t the case and
it is probably a bug in the software.
I’ve also found out that Jpegs and .eps files rotate correctly but
Illustrator .ai files don’t. Might be something to do with the pdf format
because native illustrator files are based on the pdf format.
I’ll see if I can rotate the pdfs in Preview so that I can use them.
Sorry about the missing file, I was working on Saturday and must have been interrupted and not realised that I hadn’t uploaded the file.
Thanks for your comments…
Let me explain a bit about why I needed to rotate the pdf, The original files I was sent also had to be enlarged from A4 to A3 (they were to match the sizes of other items in the site). I did this in Preview by printing the file to pdf to an A3 page. These pages are landscape but when put into Freeway they came out portrait, so I did the quick thing to see how they looked on the page, I rotated them, hence the problem I found.
I do have Acrobat Pro and that’s what I usually use to rotate pdfs, but these looked correct but when imported into Freeway the preview was rotated.
I’ve updated the test file with another test this time rotating to pdf to 75degrees, as you can see the resulting output is cropped and not as it should be.