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Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?

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On Thu 13 Jan 2022 at 19:44:23 (+0100), Siard wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
> > Finally, using a GUI doesn't scale well. [...] Clicking one's way round
> > a GUI can't compete.

> But GIMP works with raster images, so
> everything that is vectorized, including text, is transformed to a rasterized
> image, causing loss of sharpness and a drastic increase in file size.
> So GIMP is just not suitable for this purpose.

That's right, and is what I wanted to illustrate, rather
than just contradicting the post that suggested it. And
in pictures, as well as with the CPU/size statistics.

> The GUI is not the problem here.

No, not for the OP, who only has one document to rotate.
But who wants to repeat « File→Open, Image→Rotate, 90°,
OK, Export » a thousand times, even when you're operating
on an appropriate object, like a photograph. That's what
scripting is for.

For example, until bullseye, xzgv (picture viewer) didn't
honour the orientation tag, so to make it easier to show
pictures without having to press r occasionally, I would
create a shadow directory containing mainly symlinks to
the real directory, but replacing the link to any misoriented
picture with a rotated copy of the original. So easily done,
no matter how many pictures, with a script calling
jpegexiforient and convert; but so tedious with a GUI.

That's why I added the footnote that the method loses its
charm when someone else tries to scale it up to a large
number of documents.

Cheers,
David.

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How to rotate then save a PDF document? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-01-11 15:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 16:30 +0100
    Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-01-11 17:10 +0100
      Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2022-01-13 20:10 +0100
        Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-13 20:40 +0100
        Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-13 21:10 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-11 16:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2022-01-11 16:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 16:50 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-11 17:20 +0100

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