ZWR3 6 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I've used Evernote for years and have loved it. One of my et peeves has always been the difficulty involved in rotating a PDF. I need to do this all the time. Ultimately I learned to right click on the pdf and choose "edit and Annotate". This does indeed open the editing window, but the left and right rotation icons at the upper left of the editing window disappear after the image has loaded. This leaves me with all sorts of tool down the left hand rail that I have no need for, and no ability to rotate the PDF. I'm hoping that I'm just missing something and that this feature has not been removed. If so, I would want to go back to an earlier version of the Mac desktop app. Can anyone assist with this? Downloading there pdf and then rotating it in Acrobat or Preview and saving it again should not be a solution. An app like this, especially one you pay for, should take care of this with an on-screen clearly define rotate icon without having to dig. Thanks again for any help. 1 Link to comment
JeffRedbird 0 Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 I have the same problem, started recently and have not found a solution. Thanks for any assistance. Link to comment
ZWR3 6 Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 HI JeffRedbird. I did have success, or sorts. Two folks at customer support were very good to deal with and indicated that this feature is not active in the latest version of the Mac Evernote app, but took it as a feature request. I indicated that the feature was important enough to me to revert back to the Legacy Version. They provided me the link to do so and I'm back in business. You can run both versions, but should not attempt one while the other is active. At some point, if enough users request this feature carry over to the newest revs, I suspect we'll see it. At that point I will upgrade again. The link provided me is https://help.evernote.com/hc/articles/360052560314 Cheers 1 Link to comment
sean g 0 Posted February 21, 2021 Share Posted February 21, 2021 This is something that should never have been taken away. It is causing me all manner of pain, and the link above is the only thing that kept me from making a hard push to change tools after 12 years. Thanks for the fix! The new version really should not have been released without this very basic feature, IMHO! :) Link to comment
ZWR3 6 Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 Sean G, I agree and he folks at Evernote were good enough to understand as well and put the item in the future dev queue. In the meantime, I reverted to the Legacy version of Evernote to preserve this rotation function. Just don't run bth versions at the same time if you do this as well. Link to comment
Joshuacw 0 Posted March 20, 2021 Share Posted March 20, 2021 I just purchased Devonthink Pro due entirely to this issue. It completely breaks my workflow and will likely be leaving Evernote after 10+ years. Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,064 Posted March 20, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted March 20, 2021 Quite a high price for an issue that can currently (and I think quite for a while) be solved by downloading and using the legacy client. Only caveat: AFAIK legacy does not run on M1 Macs. Link to comment
royr2000@gmail.com 10 Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Why in the world is Evernote allowing this horrible omission to exist. Please restore functionality to the new Evernote. Of course we want to be able to rotate and image without spending 15 minutes rotating it outside Evernote. Please, please, please restore. Also why does you help information indicate that images can be rotated when they can't? Link to comment
Level 5 PinkElephant 8,064 Posted October 1, 2021 Level 5 Share Posted October 1, 2021 You can open the image in the Preview app (directly from EN v10 Mac, just click on the pdf and use the „Open“ command), rotate it and close it in Preview. On closing it will be saved back to the EN note, on closing the note it syncs to the server. This works completely seamless, there is IMHO absolutely no need to reproduce any of it inside of EN. Preview has much (!) better capabilities to manipulate and edit a pdf file. All of them work, and the result is saved back on closing the window in Preview. It is running on every Mac, free of charge. Rotating as other pdf operations are as well available using the legacy client. Link to comment
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