Rotate .pdf in Images

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Rotate .pdf in Images

Post by savvy » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:54 pm

My oral surgeon sends me a digital print of panos after implant surgery.
Of course I scan them into the Image folder.
However, none of the functions (move, increase, decrease, rotate and flip) work with .pdf images.
How can I rote these images.

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Re: Rotate .pdf in IMAGES

Post by Rickliftig » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:41 pm

I know that you can rotate with an external pdf viewer like Adobe or Foxit. Maybe you could re-save them using one of those viewers. A lot of work unfortunately. One other thought would be to find a pdf to jpg converter (I think there are a few free ones out there) and treat as a jpg - more work again.
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Re: Rotate .pdf in IMAGES

Post by jordansparks » Fri Apr 15, 2011 7:10 am

Why not scan them as jpg instead of pdf?
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Re: Rotate .pdf in IMAGES

Post by Hersheydmd » Fri Apr 15, 2011 12:32 pm

jordansparks wrote:Why not scan them as jpg instead of pdf?
jpeg's take up 10 times more space than pdf's.
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Re: Rotate .pdf in Images

Post by jordansparks » Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:49 am

Well maybe for text documents that use OCR. But you wouldn't ever need to rotate those. In this case, it's a radiograph. There's simply no way to compress without loosing resolution, no matter what format.
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