
Crop or rotate a PDF in Preview on Mac
You can crop a page of a PDF to hide content, or rotate it to change its orientation.
Crop a PDF
To crop a PDF, you first select the area you want to keep, and then discard the rest.
- Go to the Preview app  on your Mac. on your Mac.
- Open the PDF you want to crop, click  (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click (if the Markup toolbar isn’t showing), then click . .
- Select the portion of the page you want to keep. - If you want to view the dimensions of the content you’re selecting, choose Tools > Show Inspector, then click  and choose a unit of measurement. and choose a unit of measurement.
- Click  in the Markup toolbar. in the Markup toolbar.- Note: To undo the crop immediately, choose Edit > Undo Crop. To undo the crop later, find a version of the file before the crop. Choose File > Revert To > Browse All Versions, then find the one you want. 
Rotate a PDF
- Go to the Preview app  on your Mac. on your Mac.
- Open the PDF you want to change. 
- Do one of the following: - Rotate one page: Click  to rotate the page to the left. Continue clicking to keep rotating. to rotate the page to the left. Continue clicking to keep rotating.- To rotate a page to the right, press and hold the Option key and click  until you’re done rotating the page. until you’re done rotating the page.
- Rotate several pages at once: Choose View > Thumbnails or View > Contact Sheet, select the pages to rotate, then click  to rotate the pages to the left. to rotate the pages to the left.- To rotate the selected pages to the right, press and hold the Option key and click  until you’re done rotating the pages. until you’re done rotating the pages.