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
    2015-02-25T15:20:35+00:00
    1. Get inform why it was left out... is it not the goal of working with a team of people... 
    2. It was a bit complicated and we didn't have enought time.... You guys have no competition and it sucks. You know that we have no alternative and are stuck using Office. The least you could do it to take the damn time to include basic things like rotating Printout. Eveything I include in OneNote is landscape PDF and now its useless... I can't wait for for Chromebook and Google Word to become more popular... There will finally be a reason for you (Microsoft people) to properly make your work.

    Why is this feature missing? Well, it was missing in 2010, and I don't know why because I wasn't part of the OneNote team back then. We tried to bring this to 2013 but the issue was a bit complicated and we didn't have enough time to solve it completely and properly. Therefore it was left out.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-11-11T20:36:35+00:00

    I figured this out.  This person unknowingly had Onetastic installed on her PC.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-11T20:30:22+00:00

    OneNote can rotate regular images but doesn't have the ability to rotate printouts, unless you are using OneNote 2007 notebook format, in which case printouts are stored as regular images. So that PC either is using 2007 format or has Onetastic installed.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-11-11T20:16:39+00:00

    We have this same "flipping" problem in my office.  However, we have one PC that we are able to rotate PDF files printed to OneNote.  We all run the same versions of Office.  Do you have an idea of why one PC can do this and 10 others cannot?

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-06-29T07:55:08+00:00

    Hi Omer, thought you were on to something with printing from Adobe - but all it does is rotate the "paper"; the picture on it stays sideways.  Rats!

    Will check out Onetastic I guess.

    Regards, Peter

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