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Rotate

Rotates a page or entire Pdf document in a specific direction.

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// create rotate object
var req = new Rotate()
{
    // document
    Document = new Document()
    {
        DocData = File.ReadAllBytes("myPdf.pdf"),
        Name = "myPdf.pdf",
    },
    // action
    RotateAction = new RotateAction()
    {
        RotationList = new HashSet()
        {
            new PdfRotate()
            {
                PageNr = 1,
                RotationType = PdfRotateRotationType.Clockwise
            },
            new PdfRotate()
            {
                PageNr = 2,
                RotationType = PdfRotateRotationType.CounterClockwise,
            },
            new PdfRotate()
            {
                PageNr = 3,
                RotationType = PdfRotateRotationType.UpsideDown,
            },
        }
    },
};

// applying rotate to the PDF
var res = Pdf4me.Instance.PdfAClient.RotateAsync(req).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
            
// extract the rotated PDF and writing it to disk
byte[] rotatedPdf = res.Document.DocData;
File.WriteAllBytes("rotatedPdf.pdf", rotatedPdf);
// setup the pdf4meClient
const pdf4meClient = pdf4me.createClient('YOUR API KEY')

// create rotate object
const rotateReq = {
  // document
  document: {
    docData: fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'myPdf.pdf')).toString('base64'),
  },
  // action
  rotateAction: {
    rotationList: [
      {
        pageNr: 1,
        rotationType: 'clockwise',
      },
      {
        pageNr: 2,
        rotationType: 'counterClockwise',
      },
      {
        pageNr: 3,
        rotationType: 'upsideDown',
      },
    ],
  },
}

// applying rotate to the PDF
pdf4meClient
  .rotate(rotateReq)
  .then(function(rotateRes) {
    // extracting the rotated PDF and writing it to disk
    const pdfDocument = Buffer.from(rotateRes.document.docData, 'base64');
    fs.writeFileSync(path.join(__dirname, 'rotatedPdf.pdf'), pdfDocument)
  })
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error)
  })
# setup the pdfA_client
pdfA_client = PdfAClient(pdf4me_client)

# create the rotate object
create_rotate = Rotate(
    # document
    document=Document(
        doc_data=FileReader().get_file_data('myPdf.pdf')
    ),
    # action
    rotate_action=RotateAction(
        rotation_list=[
            PdfRotate(
                page_nr=1,
                rotation_type='clockwise'
            ),
            PdfRotate(
                page_nr=2,
                rotation_type='counterClockwise'
            ),
            PdfRotate(
                page_nr=3,
                rotation_type='upsideDown'
            )
        ]
    )
)

# applying rotate to the PDF
res = pdfA_client.rotate(rotate=create_rotate)

# extracting the rotated PDF
rotated_pdf = base64.b64decode(res['document']['doc_data'])
# writing it to disk
with open('rotatedPdf.pdf', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(rotated_pdf)
// create the rotate object
$create_rotate = [
    // document
    'document'=> [
        'name' => 'myPdf.pdf',
        'docData' => $client->getFileData('myPdf.pdf')
    ],
    // action
    'rotateAction' => [
        'rotationList' => [
            [
                "pageNr"=> 1,
                "rotationType"=> "clockwise"
            ],
            [
                "pageNr"=> 2,
                "rotationType"=> "counterClockwise"
            ]
            [
                "pageNr"=> 3,
                "rotationType"=> "upsideDown"
            ]
        ],                
    ],
];

// applying rotate to the PDF
$res = $client->pdf4me()->rotate($create_rotate);
    
// extracting the rotated PDF
$rotatedPdf = base64_decode($res->document->docData);
// writing it to disk
file_put_contents('rotatedPdf.pdf', $rotatedPdf);

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Swagger - Rotate

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