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Lossless PDF rotation


is there a way to rotate a PDF 90 degrees losslessly, with Python or using the command line?

I'm looking for a REAL rotation, not just adding a "/ROTATE 90" inside the PDF, because afterwards I have to send the PDF via Hylafax and it looks like that it ignores those commands.

I tried with ImageMagick's convert but the quality of the resulting PDF is quite low.

(Python 2.6.2, Xubuntu 9.04)

Thanks for your attention!


Solution

  • In the pdfjam package there is a shell script pdf90 which does the rotation via pdflatex.