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To be fair, PDFs suck and the only software that handles them well is paid and proprietary

Is this some Acrobat functionality or something?

Off the top of my head, there's pdfjam, pdftk and imagemagick (don't forget the --dpi switch) who could probably do that, after reading the man pages. Or ghostscript' gs, if you want to go in-depth.

But generally, just rotate the source material you've got the pdf from. That's how it is intended.

Smarmy pride in knowing how to rotate a PDF is sounding a lot like "kids don't know how to change a spark plug these days". Tech keeps moving forward. Zoomers are way faster with their phones than you'll ever be, and they know all the AI boosted efficiency features inside and out.

Guess me and my partner are exceptional zoomers? Them having a diploma in computer science and i am a software developer

I was pretty worthless with computers at 16 too.

Now I’m almost 40 and I’m working In the industry and slowly getting worse again

There's one generation between boomers and zoomers? I'm pretty confident I know who it is you're forgetting.

The thing is most of us cant even rotate a pdf, but we do know how to learn it.

Goomers and hoomers and foomers and schroomers are all alike and your generation is smarter.

Eh PDFs are just annoying to deal with. I could do this stuff the adobe acrobat when I had the paid version in school but I'm cheap and no longer have it. If I'm feeling desperate I'll find the ghostscript command that does it otherwise I just do something horrible (for example scanning to jpeg rather than PDF creating an HTML page with both images and printing that to PDF)

From writing a limited amount of code to generate PDFs from scratch the standard is just cursed. It was using 7 bit ASCII until fairly recently resulting in an eighth of the document being wasted space. Also when the switched to PDFs being an open standard the specs went from something freely available on adobe's web site to a challege of how to send 98 swiss francs to ISO to get access.

I've trained a lot of 18-22 y/os in the last 10 years and they are fine. Let's not become the boomers please...

Never judge a fish by how well it climbs a tree.

Well yeah I didn't learn at all about computers even in high school, when students did use a computer it was a cheap Chromebook. I bearly grew up with computers and thats the same for most people, the difference is I have autism so I hyprfocus on computers :3

The most satisfying joke in Questionable Content is one when robot asks another, 'the hell is a PDF?'

The only reason we have to rotate the PDFs is because they can't figure out how to use the sheet-feed scanner. Theres a picture embossed in the thing! And a sign that we put next to the button!

I just copied from my phone and pasted to my steam deck. I still got it.

it depends on the person. some zoomers are great with tech, hardware and software. others aren't. same goes for every generation. this reeks of the "haha let's shit on the younger generations" millennials have been mad about for years

Just helped build my 12 year old cousin his first computer and was forced into putting Windows on it. Now, I get that it's important that he at least understand what the "normal OS" is, but I did want to put at least Mint or something on there. Zoomers and Alpha really don't know how to navigate even the basics, though, and this kid was no exception.

Well, technically I wanted to put something based on Arch but even I know that's a bad idea for a sink or swim computer moment.

2 generations. Gen X and Millennials are both of the right age to properly understand computers.

Boomers: analogue phones and rolodexes. The nerdy ones knew Morse Code, though.

Gen X: grew up with picture books on assembly language programming

Millennials: know how to use Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Perhaps can unfuck Windows Registry keys if needed.

GenZ: “What’s a file?”