Questions tagged [rotate]

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How to save a rotated Adobe PDF file

I received an Adobe PDF scan of a document that displays upside-down. I rotated it inside Adobe Acrobat and chose Save As to make a new document, however, the rotation is not saved and when I open the new document, it is upside-down again. How can I…
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How do I rotate video (MOV) file on Windows?

I recorded a video (on iPhone) in portrait mode. Now I need to rotate it. Right now I have a MOV file. I'm using Windows. What program can I use to rotate and save this video without losing quality?
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How to rotate images automatically, based on exif data

When I make pictures with my camera (Olympus E-520), in the EXIF data the orientation is stored. The standard image viewer on Ubuntu is displaying this images correctly. Windows viewer however not. Is there a way to really rotate this images (if…
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Screen rotation hot key (Ctrl+Alt+Up) not responding, what's going on?

The other day my son (11 months) discovered a new hot key combination on my laptop. As I'm sure many of you are aware (I wasn't until the other day), on machines with Intel Graphics, pressing Ctrl+Alt+{arrow key} rotates the screen. After I…
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Rotate a MP4 file, while preserving codec and quality attributes

I need to rotate a MP4 video by 90 degrees. There is software like Free Video Flip and Rotate available that does this but produces an AVI file. Do you have any suggestions for a software to produce a MP4 that is in the same quality (and file size)…
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How to automatically rotate images based on EXIF data?

I know how to do it manually. Now I would like to automate that based on EXIF data. I already have exiftool installed, but looks like it can only read the data, but can not rotate the image. There is a similar question on SU about Ubuntu. But I'm…
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On a dual-monitor setup, how can just one of the two be rotated?

I just got a second widescreen monitor at work, and I'm planning on setting them up so that I can have Eclipse open on one and Firefox in the other. I want the Eclipse display to be "normal" screen so I have space for the package explorer and…
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Possible to rotate video (.MOV/H.264/AVC) losslessly?

The iPhone (3GS, 4, 4S, etc) often records video upside-down but then includes metadata about the rotation inside the MOV container. However, many applications (XBMC, VLC, Windows Media Player) do not understand this rotation metadata and so the…
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How can I easily correct slight rotational misalignment in scanned images

I've got a whole lot of scanned images (> 500) the majority of which were scanned with the paper not completely square. They need to be rotated about 1-5 degrees to be aligned again. Is there any software that does this? I know some scanner drivers…
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FFmpeg command to rotate an MP4 file by 90º

Can I rotate (save, reencode) a .mp4 file with ffmpeg? The only thing I found was on the mailinglist saying -vfilters "rotate=90" but ffmpeg says that "there are no vfilters". I tried -vf, it says there is "no rotate". If I try to do it in VLC, it…
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rotate pdf by a certain degree in adobe acrobat

I imported a .jpg image into adobe acrobat to convert it into PDF form with textboxes and stuff. the scanned .jpg is tilted and has to be rotated 5 deg. anti-clockwise. I know how to do this on image editor like paint.net. But I want to do this on…
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Video plays upside down only in VLC media player

I seem to have an issue that is exactly the opposite of that of many other users with upside down video's. The usual problem is that video players like Windows media player, quicktime or others play a video upside down. The answer to that issue is…
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Rotate Text and Table in Portrait Page in Word 2010?

I have a portrait page that looks like the following: Table 1. Title of Table [][][][][][][][][] [][][][][][][][][] Page 3 of 8 How can I rotate the above text and table 90 degrees counter-clockwise but NOT rotate "Page 3 of 8" so that "Table 1"…
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Rotate Chrome 90 degrees clockwise/counterclockwise

I've recently bought a 1920x1080 screen, the NEC EA232WMI to be exact. This monitor can easily rotate and pivot until I get it in a portrait orientation. Sometimes when I'm browsing the interwebs I'd like to rotate my display. But I don't want to…
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Settings to rotate display by 90 degrees

A friend (I know how that sounds) has managed to rotate her desktop display by 90 degrees. Right now she has had to physically rotate her monitor so that everything looks fine. She says she does not know how she did it and that she just "pressed a…
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