When has Reader allowing rotating pages? I don't think Reader has ever allowed saving or modifying PDFs in any way save for perhaps filling form fields...<p>What Adobe is doing, however, is to add icons and menu entries for editing functionality that will never work in Reader, advertising the features of their PDF editing software. That's, basically, yet another extremely intrusive advertising strategy that's annoying as hell and that I guess we are bound to see even more of it in the future.
Windows: Sumatra PDF.
Linux: Zathura.<p>These are so much better than Acrobat. Might not do everything you can imagine but they are excellent and a very good default.
I have an Acrobat Pro 7.0 license I paid for years and years ago. I have a single use case: I scan a lot of vintage computer manuals as a hobby. Pro offers fine control over compression options. Acrobat has been nagging me for more than a decade to register it (though I registered it when I bought it). A couple of times I've had computer crashes or migrations and getting 7.0 reinstalled on the new machine was a pain.<p>It galls me to think they want $500 for me to buy Pro again when I don't need or want any of the new features. I just want the existing functionality I paid for to continue working.<p>Do any of the alternatives have similar fine control of compression options that Acrobat Pro exposes? I'd switch in a heartbeat.
Protip: I only recently learned that LibreOffice is a pretty good PDF Editor. <a href="https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-edit-pdf-files-created-by-adobe-using-libre-office/30595" rel="nofollow">https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-edit-pdf-files-create...</a>
I have been actively moving away from Adobe products. Recently purchased Affinity Photo to replace photoshop and I use Preview (on Mac) for all pdf work.
Shameless plug: for anyone looking for an alternative, I’ve been building SimplePDF.eu [1] on my free time for last couple of years or so.<p>The editor is entirely free to use and works locally (nothing gets sent to my server: neither the document you load nor the data you fill in [2])<p>[1] <a href="https://simplepdf.eu" rel="nofollow">https://simplepdf.eu</a><p>[2] <a href="https://simplePDF.eu/privacy_policy" rel="nofollow">https://simplePDF.eu/privacy_policy</a>
This story is unclear and possibly misleading from the posted image. There are three versions of Adobe PDF software:<p>- Adobe Reader desktop app (free and lets you rotate PDF pages)<p>- Adobe Pro desktop app (full PDF editing and requires subscription)<p>- Adobe PDF online (requires a free account and lets you rotate PDF pages: <a href="https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/online.html</a>)<p>You can still rotate PDF pages using the Reader desktop app. However, as other posters have recommended, there are many alternative PDF apps. Avoid Adobe if you can.
Fake news. Acrobat Reader (free) never let you edit PDFs. Reader has always let you rotate the view. <View> <Rotate View>. Clockwise and Counterclockwise!
I remember learning PostScript (~1993?) by reading the Red Book, and thinking how awesome it was that this company Adobe, which I'd never heard of, had created a new programming language just to solve once and for all the problem of specifying vector graphics to a printer, and had written such a nice book to help others use the language. It was magical to be able to write a text file in emacs, send it to the printer, and have cool images come out.<p>Good old days.<p>btw PDF started as Project Camelot at Adobe in ~1990, as a way to capture the results of executing a PostScript program [1]. I'm curious if there is still that kind of foundational innovation happening at Adobe, and if not, why it died?<p>[1] <a href="https://blog.adobe.com/en/2018/06/14/evolution-digital-document-celebrating-adobe-acrobats-25th-anniversary" rel="nofollow">https://blog.adobe.com/en/2018/06/14/evolution-digital-docum...</a>
*in Acrobat Reader.<p>There is an online version that requires signing in, but no purchase.<p><a href="https://adobe.com/acrobat/online/rotate-pdf.html" rel="nofollow">https://adobe.com/acrobat/online/rotate-pdf.html</a><p>There are some other tools there as well.<p>Disclosure: Adobe employee, not in Document Cloud.
More than ever I feel vindicated in the decision to avoid non-free software. It's limiting of course but in tandem with a fully reproducible system it is guaranteed that my current workflows will always be available... I can't imagine doing anything in software without that foundation.<p>The recent news about Adobe removing Pantone colors from existing projects is even more egregious:<p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1/23434305/adobe-pantone-subscription-announcement-photoshop-illustrator" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/1/23434305/adobe-pantone-su...</a>
Adobe Document Cloud has some nice features that are unique in the market, and are worthy being paid features. But sadly they are hidden under a sea of very basic feature like this one, totally unworthy of a paid feature — this make the good feature less noticeable.<p>One of the paid feature that I really like is fluid PDF on mobile screen. Most PDF is not very readable on mobile screen, it needs pan and zoom. The fluid feature make the layout become more HTML-like and fluid, and adapt to mobile screen size. That is a feature to monetize. not rotating pages!
I wanted to combine a few PDFs into 1 big one, and I noticed adobe.com offers that for free (but it requires user registration). Now I just remembered that Gimp can open PDFs, and each page would be its own layer. Probablt good enough for some light editing.