Page rotation

[LasseThid]

We have a customer who sends pdf files for their products, sometimes the page orientation is landscape and sometimes it's portrait.
In order for the binding to be correct I need to have all pages in portrait orientation.
As their jobs are all automated via Switch I have an action list that will set the page orientation to -90 if the pages are landscape.
So far, so good.
Now the customer informs me that for some products they wish to rotate a variable amount of pages 180 degrees in order to be able to read the broschure/catalogue from both the front and the back.
Does anyone have any ideas how I can solve this issue with either an action list or a switch flow?

[abailescollins]

Should be possible I think, how 'variable' are the page numbers?

[LasseThid]

I have no idea Andrew.
Their products range from 12 to 92 pages and for any product they can all of a sudden decided they want x pages rotated 180 degrees.
I was thinking about splitting the pdf into separate pages in Switch and then check each page with an action list to see if page rotation is 0 and if it isn't set it to error. If it returned an error I could run an action list to set page rotation to 90 and if no error run a different action list that would set page rotation to -90 and finally recombine the pdf's into one single pdf.
Only thing is each pdf range from a couple of Mb up to two Gb...
I was then thinking about having a record in the xml to indicate whether or not this job has different page rotations, so I could process only those jobs.
For now I've been told not to bother as we don't know how often they will order a product you can read from both the front and the back.

It would be nice though if there was an option to rotate the page 0, 90, 180 or 270 (or-90) degrees instead of just setting the page rotation.

[abailescollins]

Not sure if it helps, but you can rotate the pages with those options with the 'rotate page' action?

[bens]

Are the page boxes symmetrical? If so, rotating a page by 180 degrees should be the same as rotating only its content by 180 degrees. While the "Rotate page" action can only set the rotation without regard to the current rotation, the "Rotate content" action takes the current content and rotates it as it is now. There is even an option to use or ignore the page's Rotate key.

For 90 or -90 degrees this won't work of course, in those cases the page boxes must be rotated.