Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?

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Subject: Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
From: Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 12:34:10 -0700
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:44:23 +0100
Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> wrote:

> The GUI is not the problem here. 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.

Also, it is possible to extract the text from a PDF (pdftk does this
very well), but once it is rasterized, that capability is lost.

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- How to rotate then save a PDF document?
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- Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
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- Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
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- Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
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- Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
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