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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 ...
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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. ...
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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+...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Rotating in Gimp using a grid

In Picasa, when I rotate a picture, I'm shown a grid allowing me to properly align the photo: But in Gimp, I can't have the same thing. There is a "grid", but it follows the image (what's the point ...
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How do I rotate the desktop on Windows XP?

My angel pressed some thing and after that the Windows screen has rotated. It has become vertical. I have restarted, but it still shows the same. How to resolve this issue?
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What software can I use to rotate a video?

I took video with my Sony Cyber shot holding the camera sideways to get a taller capture. I didn't realize that the video would playback sideways. Does anyone know of a app. to rotate the video?
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ffmpeg rotating source video and applying overlay images

I'm having some trouble with this, I've got a source video that has been recorded upside down. I need this video to be rotated and have a couple of transparent PNG files overlayed on top of it. I'm ...
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How do you rotate an entire directory of videos with ffmpeg?

I'm new to FFmpeg and trying to figure this out. I found this for Batch processing and this answer for rotation of video but I need to put them together. Could someone please explain how to create a ...
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Rotate a Video 90 degrees

I have a camera that records video. We thought it would auto-sense that it was sideways, but if it had... I wouldn't be here. Windows comes with Movie Maker, that does this... but it saves the file ...
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Image loses major quality as soon as it is rotated in Photoshop CS5

I'm trying to create an image in Photoshop CS5, in the image I have smaller images that need to be rotated (25-40 degrees or so), but as soon as I do that they lose quality and you can see zig-zag ...
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Small program for rotating images

I need a small program (well, it doesn't have to be small, ... that's just there to avoid suggestions like Photoshop or Autocad) for cropping and rotating images by degrees. (have a bunch of scanned ...
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Rotating monitor from landscape to portrait in Win7? HP w2207h monitor

I have an HP w2207h monitor, which supposedly has the option to rotate the screen 90 degrees. I have rotated the monitor, but the screen stays the way it was. I have the most recent drivers for the ...
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How do I rotate certain pages of a PDF to a particular direction?

I have a PDF file of 400 pages made up of scanned pages. But, the orientation of the PDF file is such that half of the pages are rotated to the right, while half of them are rotated to the left. I ...
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There is a pdf viewer which rotates the pdf files when you open them?

The questions is in the title :) SO, there is a pdf viewer which rotates the pdf files when you open them? I have lots of scanned pdf files which needs to be rotated when I open them to verify ...
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How to make an easy-to-use script/file which finds and rotates horizontal images on Windows 7?

If I have a folder with hundreds of images, and some are wider than they are tall, I'd like to be able to easily rotate the wide images so everything is vertical. Currently I have to skim through the ...
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Auto align/rotate scanned images in Photoshop?

Is there a way to automatically rotate/align scanned images so they are perfect 90 degrees. For instance, you scan an image it's slightly crooked, like 88 degrees but the image is rectangular, so ...
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Rotate touchpad in-line with screen

I have a samsung NC10 netbook with the intel graphics media accelerator for mobile installed, which gives me hotkeys for rotating the screen. Is is possible to also "rotate" the touchpad. So that, for ...
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Can't rotate display in Windows 7

I'm running Windows 7 64-bit on a Dell Inspiron 1525 with an Intel 965 graphics chipset. When I bring up the "screen resolution" settings, I can set up my primary and secondary display (the laptop + ...
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Mouse rotated 90 degrees

Three hours ago I opened a PDF file and my mouse changed its movement, like moving it left is down, etc. I have been fighting with this problem ever since. I have read many forums but nothing helped. ...
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How is it that some software knows the correct orientation of an image and other software does not?

I download some photos off Google drive and when I open them in Windows Photo Viewer some are incorrectly oriented. I opened them in Photoshop with the intent to rotate them but Photoshop already ...
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TV wall mount that rotates the tv 90 degrees [closed]

Where can i buy a tv wall mount that can rotate the tv 90 degrees (in the vertical plane) for storage?
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Rolling Apache2 log files

I'm using a Collabnet svn distribution on linux, and the log files are configured through the standard apache httpd.conf. It's been a while since I dealt directly with apache, but my memory and ...
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How to change vertically splitted screnn to horizontal layout in conemu

Is there a possibility to change layout in CONEMU for already existing splits in scree. Lets say i would like to change this: +---+---+ +-------+ | | | | 1 | | 1 | 2 | to +-------+ | ...
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How to align (rotation) a face to XY plane?

First of all i am not sure the title correctly describe what i want to do with sketchup. A picture is worth 1000 words I designed this object somewhere else in my project and it was not aligned to ...
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How do I rotate part of a video?

I have a similar problem as this person. Except that I recorded the first 30 seconds in portrait mode, and then decided the next 4 minutes would look better in landscape mode. So now I have a sideways ...
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CD DVD BD - Does it spin left or right?

So, how do those discs spin? Clockwise or counterclockwise? I cannot find any information on the topic.
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Rotate image with open office 3.2

I import a picture into an open office document from file. However, I cannot figure out how to rotate image in open office 3.2 writer. Is there any way to do that?
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ffmpeg overlay rotated images onto a video, how to transparent the output area not covered by the rotated image?

I am using ffmpeg to overlay a picture on a movie. The requirement is to rotate the picture through an arbitrary angle. Using filter_complex, I can overlay the rotated picture now. However, the output ...
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Rotate Screen, Not Working in Windows 7

I am using Windows 7. I tried to rotate my screen, but it is not working. I tried Ctrl + Alt + Arrow, and it didn't work. I opened graphics resolution, but there is no option to rotate the screen. ...
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Solaris 10 with Gnome: How do I rotate my screen?

Anyone know how to rotate your screen from landscape to portrait in Solaris 10 with Gnome? Update: Have looked in: Launch -> Preferences -> System preferences (has nothing relevant) Launch -> ...
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avconv huge output file size

I am trying to rotate some mp4 videos (shot with an Android smartphone) 90 degrees clockwise. I have been using variations of the following command: avconv -i 20150604_192846.mp4 -c:v libx264 -preset ...
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How can I rotate MOV and mp4 files in Windows Live Photo Gallery?

I am using Windows Live Photo Gallery on Windows 7 to manage my photos and video clips from camera/phone. If I import photos/videos from camera, it is smart enough to rotate as necessary, but I have ...
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Google Earth - zoom like with a scope, rotate the camera

I know it is possible to change a viewing altitude in Google Earth, but is it possible to zoom in/out as well, like with a telescope? I would like to preview what could be viewed from a particular ...
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How to extract image rotation from a PDF

I'm extracting all the images from a bunch of scanned PDFs using pdfimages, in order to process and repackage them. The problem is that some images are rotated 90° (either CW or CCW) and others are ...
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How can I rotate an image easily on Mac OS X?

How can I rotate an image on a Mac easily? In Windows, it's very easy with the default Windows Photo Viewer; as seen in this screenshot, there are 2 icons to rotate the image:
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Rotating mpg files

I have got a couple of mpg files captured in a digital camera in a portrait mode. Are there any free tools to rotate to landscape them?
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Why did `exiftool -rotation=0 input.mov` rotate my video?

I have an input.mov video file recorded by an iPhone 12 mini. I copied the video to my Windows 10 laptop. When I open the on video on my Windows 10 laptop with VLC, the video plays in portrait mode. I ...
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Laptop Autorotate Cannot be Disabled

I'm having an issue where I can’t disable the autorotate feature of my laptop. The display rotates from my preferred landscape view to the undesirable portrait view whenever I physically tilt the ...
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