PDF rotated in viewer

paulhagstrom · Post by **paulhagstrom** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:57 am

I'm using BE 10.0.3, and I attached a PDF to an entry that was scanned 2-up. For some reason, the PDF displays in the within BE sideways (it would be correct if it were rotated 90 degrees to the left), although the same PDF shows up within Preview, Skim, EagleFiler, and Acrobat 7 (and -- in fact, in BE's own Attachment inspector) in the correct orientation.

Is anyone else seeing this? Is there a flag in the PDF's data or metadata that controls the orientation that the BE preview pane is ignoring?

There doesn't appear to be way within BE to rotate the view either. If the preview pane is controlled by PDFKit, perhaps simply turning on the ability to rotate might also make it honor the orientation flag?

Post by **Jon** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 11:59 am

Hi,

You can send me the pdf and I'll take a look.

Jon
Sonny Software

Post by **Jon** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:31 pm

Thanks for the pdf. We've added code that corrects for orientation, and in the next Bookends update you'll find that this pdf and others like it will display in the readable orientation.

Jon
Sonny Software

paulhagstrom · Post by **paulhagstrom** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:17 pm

Great! And, an impressive 24-hour turnaround on the bugfix. Thanks for looking into it.

germandanny · Post by **germandanny** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 3:45 am

Hi, I don't know if my issues are similar to the ones mentioned above (because I can't understand some of the lingoâ€¦). I scanned an attachment sideways (and just rotate left to view it in Skim). For some reason I thought that BE10.1 would figure out which way was up and move it to that. At least I thought that's what the website said:

"The List View display pane will always show a pdf in a readable orientation even if it was scanned in as a vertical image."

Any thoughts? Or is there a way to rotate a PDF image w/in the viewer? I can't seem to find it.

Thanks for any help.

Daniel

Post by **Jon** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:11 am

Hi,

If the pdf has orientation information embedded in it, Bookends can automatically rotate it. If not, it will present it as is. How does Preview display it? In any case, you can drag and drop it from Bookends onto the Skim icon in the dock, and it will open in Skim, too (or just double-click on it if Skim is set as your preferred pdf viewer).

Jon
Sonny Software

germandanny · Post by **germandanny** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:48 am

Thanks, Jon.

So I guess that means there's no way to rotate a PDF within the BE viewer itself, huh? That's all right, Skim works just fine for me.

Oh, do you (or does anyone else) know of a way to change the orientation information of a PDF document?

Thanks

Post by **Jon** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:33 am

I don't know how one might do that, but I'm guessing it might be possible with Acrobat (not Reader).

Jon
Sonny Software

germandanny · Post by **germandanny** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:58 am

Again, thanks for getting back with a response so soon. I'm happy for now. I just found a work-around for rotating PDFs within the Skim app itself, described on this Skim help-page:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.ph ... tid=941984

I just rotate all my Skim PDFs and re-save them in my BE attachments folder. It seems to work for me, as they show up in the right orientation in the BE viewer.

Thanks again.

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