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In Preview, when I add text annotations to my PDF (lecture note slides), they look fine until I close it and reopen it, and then they are rotated 90 degrees. How do I fix this and keep it from happening again?
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have the same problem. My markup in Preview is getting rotated by 90 degrees. I create the markup, it looks fine, but then if I re-open the file later the markup is rotated.
To get around this, I re-downloaded the PDF, opened, saved WITHOUT markup, closed, then opened again and did markup. Now on re-opening the Markup looks normal.
This is the kind of thing I expect in a non-Apple product.
Just out of courisity, when you first open your lecture notes, do you have to rotate them 90º first?
If so, after your do that rotation, Save the document, and then do your annotations.
Don't know if that'll work or not, but it's the best I've got!
Thanks, I thought about that, but I have never rotated the PDF. It opens in the correct orientation. Also, I just discovered that if I double click on the text, as if I'm going to edit it, it re-orients to the correct direction. However, when I close it and open it back, it reverts back to the 90 degree rotation. Also, it's obviously not practical to do this to every notation every time you want to read it. It's impossible to read the other way. The text box itself doesn't rotate, just the text itself within the box.
I have this issue too. Did you find the source of the problem or how to fix it?
No, I haven't figured it out. It's still doing it :-/
Thta's a shame. Mine did work fine for a while before going strange. I've installed Wondershare PDF Editor and wondered if that was the cause of the problem due to a conflict somewhere. You haven't installed that too have you? If so, it would point to that being the problem.
No, I haven't installed any external applications of that nature.
hmm. I just had the same problem, so i googled and got here. With no answers i went back to Preview and tried a couple of attempts again... and i realised i could do this!
File>Export> save.
and it seems to work alright now. Solved it!...for now. (:
Thanks for the tip. I've given up using Preview annotations for now, until I can rely on it 100%.
I'm having the same problem and, like you, I discovered that if I double click on the note, it will resolve itself. After I do this for each of the notes, I then go to file > export > save (as suggested by alwaesboo). It's tedious but I can't figure out another way to fix this. 😟
This problem is stil happening.
The same deal, using for lecture notes, but all flipped when re-opened.
This can be remedied temporarily by double clicking (edit mode) or resizing the text box, but is only temporary.
Same on snow leopard, lion and now mountain lion.
Fix, thanks.
I'm having the same problem. Also if the text box is larger than the amount of text in the box then when it rotates the text isn't visible and I'm stuck clicking on random parts of my lecture slides hoping the text box will come back. This is insanely frustrating when I make hundreds of text boxes in lecture notes over the course of a few hours and can't find half of them.
Please fix!
I have the same problem with lectures slides.
Furthermore, sometimes the text box, when doube-clicking, turns the text into a one-liner. Causing the text box to sometimes get 3. times wider than the pdf itself.
tcrother wrote:
... then when it rotates the text isn't visible and I'm stuck clicking on random parts of my lecture slides hoping the text box will come back. ...
By pressing [cmd + I] the Inspector opens up and clicking on the rightmost tab 'Annotations' you should be able find those Annotations again. I do this regularly to find the empty annotations I accidentally create while clicking through slides.
Any luck fixing this? I am having the same problem - text rotates 90˚
I had the exact same problem. what I do is open the pdf in the dropbox viewer on my ipad, and then it shows you where your textboxes are located(they appear as red boxes). I guess the annotated pdf from mac 'preview' is not 100% compatible with other viewers, and because of that other viewers let us know where the textboxes are located.
This is really frustrating,, Apple please fix this ASAP!!!
In Preview, when I add text annotations to my PDF (lecture note slides), they look fine until I close it and reopen it, and then they are rotated 90 degrees. How do I fix this and keep it from happening again?
