Optimize Display Orientation

Optimize Display Orientation in Adobe Acrobat — with two ready prompts: the immediate one, and the one that makes it stick. 1 real situation leads here.

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Trim and rotate photographed folios so they appear correctly in the online catalogue.

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Execute — do the immediate task

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Prepare photographed folios for the online catalogue: crop each PDF page to the folio edges and…
Prepare photographed folios for the online catalogue: crop each PDF page to the folio edges and rotate pages so text sits upright, save the corrected file as '[filename=Folios_1872_corrected.pdf]' and upload to the [folder=catalogue staging folder].

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Make images display correctly to catalogue users and reduce back-and-forth: apply consistent crop…
Make images display correctly to catalogue users and reduce back-and-forth: apply consistent crop margins to all folios, rotate any pages where the top is not at the top, visually inspect a sample for lost marginalia, and add a comment listing pages altered and why before uploading to [folder=staging].

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ArchivistAdobe Acrobat Proalso: Trim And Rotate Imagesalso: Align Folios For Catalog

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