How to temporarily/permanently rotate PDF in Google Drive

When you scan a PDF document and upload it to your Google Drive, there is a very high chance that the PDF is in an upside-down orientation or in a right-to-left orientation. Of course, reading documents that aren't in an upright position is a pain. Sometimes you just need to look at a document temporarily, close it and walk away. Sometimes, you need to permanently correct the orientation of a PDF so that you can save yourself the trouble of correcting its orientation again in the future. Well, you finally have the last laugh, we’ve got the perfect solution for your needs.

In this article, we explain in detail how to easily temporarily and permanently correct the orientation of a PDF in Google Drive. Hope you like it!

Bonus Cookie: You can open any PDF in Google Chrome and correct it as detailed in Section 1 its direction. After correcting the orientation, you can successfully save the orientation-corrected PDF to your machine by following the steps detailed in Section 2. PDF doesn’t have to be in Google Drive itself for this trick to work.

Part 1: How to Temporarily Rotate PDF in Google Drive

Step 1: Open Google Drive via your favorite browser. After logging in, navigate to the pdf that requires orientation correction.

Start by double-clicking on the PDF to open it on the browser itself.

Step 2: In the upper right corner of the page, find and click the "Print" icon .

Step 3: Next, click the "Rotate Counterclockwise" button and correct the orientation of the PDF.

If your browser does not have a rotate counterclockwise button, then you can right click PDFAnywhere on the empty area and click the Rotate clockwise or Rotate counterclockwise button, depending on your preference.

Step 4: Tada, you have successfully corrected the orientation of your PDF in Google Drive.

But wait, this is only temporary. This change will disappear if you refresh the page or close the tab. If you want to permanently change the orientation of your PDF, you can follow the steps detailed in Section 2.

Part 2: How to Permanently Rotate PDF in Google Drive

To permanently change the orientation of a PDF in Google Drive, first, you need to follow Section1 steps detailed in # and temporarily change its direction. That's it, we'll take it from there.

Step 1: After obtaining the PDF in the correct orientation, click "Print in the upper right corner of the window again "icon.

Step 2: Don't worry about the orientation of the PDF here, just select# from the "Destination" dropdown menu ##Microsoft Print to PDF option, then click the "Print" button at the bottom.

Step 3: In the "Save printout as" window, navigate to Your preferred position, give the rotated PDF a new name (you can even use the old name), and click the "Save" button.

Step 4: That’s it. You now have the orientation-corrected PDF stored locally on your computer. Next, let's upload it to your Drive.

To do this, return to Google Drive and click the

New button in the left pane.

Step 5: Next, click on the File Upload option.

Step 6:Navigate to the location where save the rotated PDF and click on it. After that, click on the "Open" button.

Step 7: That’s it. You have now uploaded the rotated PDF to your Google Drive. From the preview itself, you can see that the orientation of the PDF is now corrected.

NOTE: If you wish, you can now delete old PDFs from Google Drive by just right-clickingold PDF file and click the Delete option from the expanded right-click context menu.

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