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To this day, I do not understand why it is practically impossible to simply rotate a PDF and save it in its rotated form without downloading some additional PDF application.

Edit: On Windows. I envy Preview in MacOS

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Might want to specify the platform. on macOS that's like 2 clicks in Preview.app.

It’s a single key shortcut. The document is then auto saved.

Preview.app is king.

Is it actually rotated or does it just remember that that document is supposed to be rotated? In other words if you emailed it to me would it still be rotated when I opened it?

Actual PDF rotate.

In other news, that's precisely why I'm weary to open PDFs in (edit: recent versions of) macOS because it autosaves, and I need to have a bit-perfect copy of said PDF. I mean, I open it in Firefox or Chrome, and this is just a problem that is specific to my circumstance, but it still bugs me.

I think there’s an option in System Preferences to disable auto saving

That's if I do own my own Mac, but this is in situations like if I'm stuck in the marketing division and needed to view a file immediately.

You may need to save it, but you can rotate just one page in Preview and keep the rest in its original position. I also like that you can click the title in Preview, edit it, change the location, without having to close the document.

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