I hate them, wife loves them… so good luck lol

Yea, but the entire rotation of pdf is from scanned pdfs that are rasterized anyway

if you’re manipulating pdfs exported via a computer program I doubt you’d ever need to rotate them, but in that case qpdf etc are better

You have to set the quality to 100 and density to something high (150 or 300) because it’ll set it to 72ppi and it also has to become before the input file name. It’s like GS and wants virtually every parameter set by you and the defaults are like bare minimum it doesn’t take them from the actual file.

That being said just use qpdf or pdftk lmao

It hurts me deep inside as well

maybe in 2005. Today it is “did it turn on? No? Ok we will give you a new one”

help desk definitely doesn’t need to know that either. “does the shit turn on… no, well send it in then we will give you a new one”

I would guess 90% of “IT” people don’t know what POST (in web context, maybe bios since they might have taken an A+ cert class lmao) means nor do they know how basic http or web servers work. Most of IT are help desk and do not know technology well but are comfortable enough to tell people to reboot, uninstall/reinstall stuff, reformat, google an issue they can’t figure out… Which is better than 99% of the world.

convert -rotate 90 in.pdf out.pdf

Yes. (not sure if you wanted it actually posted the GS way is kinda long) there are a good 10+ different tools to do it on command line though. Even imagemagick’s “convert” command that does virtually every image format can also rotate a pdf. qpdf, pdftk are very popular too.

I actually found a thread that lists all the tools I did and even the “gs” command lol https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/394065/command-line-how-do-you-rotate-a-pdf-file-90-degrees

Yep I’ve noticed that too. I get questions like “what is the difference between downloading and installing” from people that are over 18 years old and under 30.