It happens in almost every scanned bundle: one page went through the scanner sideways, or a receipt was photographed with half the table around it. Most tools make you rotate the whole file in one place, then go somewhere else to fill it in. EZ PDF Editor does it on the page, in the same editor where you are filling and signing, and keeps everything you placed on that page with it.
Rotate one page
Open the PDF in EZ PDF Editor and show the Pages panel. Hover a page thumbnail: next to Extract and Delete are three buttons — Rotate, Crop and the gear for Adjust Page. The ribbon above the page has the same Rotate, Crop and gear for the page you are currently on.
- Each click of Rotate turns the page 90° clockwise. Click again to keep turning: 90°, 180°, 270°, back to upright.
- Everything on the page turns with it: text boxes, signatures, images and white-outs.
- The page stays in view, so you do not lose your place in a long document.
- The thumbnail turns too, so the Pages panel matches the document.
When you download, the PDF keeps the rotation as the page's own rotation, the standard way a PDF records it. Acrobat, Chrome, Preview and phones all show it the right way up.
Crop one page
Click Crop on a thumbnail or the ribbon. The page opens in a window. Drag a box around the part you want to keep and click Apply crop. The page on screen, its thumbnail and the download are all cropped to that area, and the pages around it close up with even spacing.
Cropping is not destructive. It sets the page's crop box, which tells PDF readers which part of the page to show. Open Crop again and choose Remove crop to bring the whole page back.
On a scan, Remove dark edges in the Adjust Page panel can find and trim scanner borders for you.
Fix that sideways page
Open the PDF, hover the page thumbnail and click Rotate — free, nothing uploaded.
Open EZ PDF Editor →Undo, and mixing the two
Every rotate and every crop is one undo step: press Ctrl+Z to step back, or Ctrl+Y to redo. Rotation and crop work together. Crop a page, then rotate it, and the kept area turns with it. Both are saved with your document, so they are still there if you close the tab and come back.
Works on every kind of page
Rotate and Crop work on a page from the PDF you opened, on a scanned page, on a Blank Design Page and on a Document page you typed yourself. You can keep filling a turned page: placing, moving and resizing text boxes and signatures behaves the same as on an upright page.
Not sure where things are?
Click the small ? next to Rotate, Crop and the gear on the ribbon for a quick tour of the page tools: Rotate, Crop, Adjust, the + Insert menu and the ••• More menu.
Rotating a whole file instead?
To turn every page of a file at once without opening the editor, use the standalone Rotate PDF tool. To pull a page out as its own PDF, use Extract on its thumbnail. To clean up a scan beyond rotating and cropping — straighten it, whiten grey paper, fix perspective — see how to clean up a scanned PDF.