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Sean Q.1's avatar
Sean Q.1
4 years ago

Can not edit PDFs in Dropbox.

I was excited by the news that we can edit PDFs in Dropbox, but when I tried, I discovered that I cannot edit the text of a PDF (which is mostly  what I want to do). I can insert, delete and rotate p...
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blhuynh's avatar
blhuynh
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

How do you rotate PDFs in the Dropbox mobile app? I tried looking for this functionality but didn't see it. Thanks. 

Hannah's avatar
Hannah
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4 years ago

Hey blhuynh, thanks for the nudge here.

 

Dropbox doesn't really have an option that would allow someone to rotate a file.

 

You should be able to export/save the file to your device, though, and rotate the saved version.

 

I hope this helps!

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