Rotate PDF's in OneNote

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I noticed that OneNote always displays PDF's sideways after inserting them using the File Printout command. I read some discussions where MS tried to say it had something to do with the printer driver in Adobe, etc., etc. I don't understand why I have to install a 3rd party program (Onetastic) which does plenty of good things, but I really only use it for the rotate PDF menu that it provides. Did the MS engineers just get too tired to include this very basic, totally necessary feature?

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Anonymous

2017-02-10T02:32:28+00:00

Here is a solution that I found that works for me. It adds an extra step, but at least it's a simple one.

My Surface Pro 4 came with the software Drawboard PDF. If I open the pdf in drawboard and then within that app, print it using the "send to onenote" option, I am able to change it to landscape and it inserts properly.

If your computer doesn't have Drawboard, it looks like it's about $10 in the Windows Store.

Hope this helps!!
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Anonymous

2017-02-10T16:08:56+00:00

You can do this with every PDF reader.

Bernd
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Anonymous

2017-02-12T00:05:29+00:00

I agree that one should be able to do this in every pdf reader. But at least for me, I couldn't get acrobat reader to do this so I used a different reader that worked. :)
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Anonymous

2017-02-12T18:47:24+00:00

You can set landscape in Send to Onenote itself, just before printing.

Bernd
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Anonymous

2017-03-09T16:07:59+00:00

Printing to OneNote in Landscape solved this for me. Thanks for the extensive background on the issue.
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