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?

OS X 10.5.5 still has this issue, furthermore, I can't read the text while I type. It shows a skewed text box with the most recently typed characters missing which results in me guessing what letters I've already pressed and typos. Any suggestions for an alternative app besides Adobe Acrobat?

I have the same issue with Preview too. Using OS X Yosemite with the new Macbook.

I have tried all the suggestions you guys gave but none works out. The text boxes are still 90 degree rotated when I re-open them. This is very frustrating.\

Hope Apple will look into this issue soon.

I had this problem when I rotated PDFs before annotating. I solved the problem by rotating the entire PDF when it was created (e.g. going to the print menu -> Changing orientation to landscape -> Save as PDF) rather than manually rotating each page separatelyafterwards. I couldn't find a way to fix my old annotations but this seems like it will stop any potential future problems.

Hope this helps some people.

Thanks for the help t_burrr

You've offered the absolute best solution I've seen so far on this matter. Thanks your willingness to share with the community.

I found it took a couple tries of turning all the pages so the annotations could be read (File/Contact Sheet using "Command-A") and then closing and re-opening "Preview," followed by repeating the process of turning all pages and closing and re-opening the program, until the 90 degree or 180 degree flipped notes came back into place in the correct direction of the background. So far it's worked every time for me. A nasty bug in the system that thankfully we can think about and solve.

Appreciative,

Juli

Still a problem in 2016 with Yosemite. I also had made quite a few underlines (in addition to the text boxes) and ALL OF THOSE were moved and rotated as well. VERY ANNOYING!

I will start over and try some of the fixes suggested here, but this is totally unacceptable.

BTW, I don't use DropBox or have any of the other software suggested as conflicts.

Dear friends! According to my painful experience, you have to save every single markup when PDF is opened in Preview, othervise the risk of vertical markips is very high. No following rotation works. Just cntr+s every time. Warning: if you soloed down PDF in Preview quickly document may closed unexpectedly.

cntr+s, my MF!

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.

Any luck fixing this? I am having the same problem - text rotates 90˚

I have this issue too. Did you find the source of the problem or how to fix it?

Thanks for the tip. I've given up using Preview annotations for now, until I can rely on it 100%.

Yes I use Dropbox. I will try this on the next lecture, thank you!

No, I don't use Dropbox and never have, so it's not the cause of my problem. Thanks anyway.

I had the same problem too, and i am looking for the alternative of preview.