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How to rotate single page in whole pdf?

Updated on Oct 24, 2025

How To

In some scenarios you need to rotate a single page in the PdfViewer withouht changing the orientation of the whole document. You can achieve that by transforming the element of the desired page utilizing the CSS rotate() functionality.

Solution

Assign a handler to the PdfViewer's client-side PreRender event.
Implement a function applying the desired rotation to a specific page in the viewer

ASP.NET

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<head runat="server">
    <title>Telerik ASP.NET Example</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdf.js/2.2.2/pdf.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdf.js/2.2.2/pdf.worker.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <telerik:RadScriptManager runat="server" ID="RadScriptManager1" />
        <script type="text/javascript">
            window.pdfjsLib.GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc = 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/pdf.js/2.2.2/pdf.worker.js';
        </script>
        <telerik:RadPdfViewer runat="server" ID="RadPdfViewer1" Height="550px" Width="100%">
            <ClientEvents OnRender="onPdfRender" />
            <PdfjsProcessingSettings File="Document.pdf">
            </PdfjsProcessingSettings>
        </telerik:RadPdfViewer>
        <script>
            function onPdfRender(pdfViewer, args) {

                rotateSinglePage(2, 90)
            }

            function rotateSinglePage(pageNum, degree) {
                var viewerMain = $find("RadPdfViewer1").get_element();
                var pageContainer = viewerMain.querySelector("div[data-number='" + pageNum + "']");
                pageContainer.style.transform = "rotate(" + degree + "deg)";
            }
        </script>
    </form>
</body>
</html>