Rotate PDF's in OneNote

Anonymous
2013-08-22T17:23:11+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-09-25T02:06:43+00:00

    How to make PDFs that are landscape-oriented display straight/properly in OneNote without downloading any software:

    1. Open up any PDF file viewer (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader DC); even works with Internet Explorer

    2. Open the Print window (ctrl + P)

    3. Under 'pages per sheet', select 'Custom...' --> 1 by 2

    4. Orientation: select 'Portrait' 

    5. Microsoft 'Print to PDF' --> Save file with this 1 by 2 print layout

    6. Use 'Insert' --> 'File Printout' option in OneNote

    7. Zoom in

    Works especially well with lecture slides: 

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-10-02T12:24:10+00:00

    Fantastic Omer, thank you! That really works - and explains why sometimes OneNote makes things sideways and seems not to budge!

    I opened the doc in Adobe, and printed from Adobe using the Advanced options - which offered landscape orientation. 

    Done!

    Thanks, Kate

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-13T08:58:15+00:00

    5 years laters. MS still haven't add the functionality to simply rotate the print out. Yet they advertised this as one of their main feature.

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