# Rotate PDF

Turn sideways or upside-down PDF pages the right way up and keep them that way. Rotate every page or only some. Nothing is ever uploaded.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/rotate-pdf

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: PDF in. PDF out, with the chosen pages turned 90, 180 or 270 degrees.
- Limits: No page limit. Turning is in quarter turns, which is what the PDF format stores.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, after you have used it once. Your browser keeps what the tool needs, so it then works with no network connection.

## Questions

### Will rotating make my file bigger or blurrier?

Neither. A PDF page stores its own rotation, so turning one changes a number rather than the picture. Nothing is redrawn and nothing is re-encoded.

### Can I turn only some pages?

Yes. Select the pages you want turned and only those move. Select none and every page turns, which is the usual case for a document scanned sideways.

### Why did my page turn further than I asked?

The turn is added to whatever the page already had. A page saved at 90 degrees that you turn another 90 ends up at 180, which is what pressing rotate twice should do.

### Which way does 90 degrees turn the page?

Clockwise, to the right, which is how the PDF format counts rotation. The buttons say Right 90, Upside down and Left 90 so you do not have to know that.

### Will other PDF readers show the page turned?

Yes. The turn is written into the page's own rotation attribute, the same value a scanner or Acrobat sets, and readers honour it because it is part of the PDF format itself. Nothing depends on this site being open.

### Can I rotate a locked PDF?

Not while it is encrypted. The file is refused on opening with a message to remove the password first. Do that with Unlock PDF, rotate here, and protect it again if you need to.

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- [Delete PDF pages](https://filetity.com/delete-pages-from-pdf): Remove the pages you do not want and keep everything else in order.
- [Split PDF](https://filetity.com/split-pdf): Break a PDF into separate files, or pull the pages you need out of it.