How to print a shipping label rotated from the original

[beachboy3]

Hi All,

My self-adhesive shipping labels take up half of a vertical page.  Since eBay's shipping label (for FedEx, at least) extends beyond that vertically, I need to rotate the label image so that it prints horizontally and will fit on my physical label.  Rotating the image in my browser won't print it rotated.  I saved it as a PDF file and tried several ways to print it rotated in Adobe Acrobat, but it still won't print a rotated image.   Can anyone help?  Thanks  🙂

[beachboy3 · Accepted solution]

After spending half a day on this, I found the solution ridiculously simple after someone else tried to help me.  I was rotating the image in Acrobat, and the image appeared rotated in the print window; however, it wouldn't print rotated, and I'm pretty sure that I tried both Portrait and Landscape orientations.   (As another person commented here, my free Acrobat version won't allow me to save the rotated image.)    However, when I started over and tried printing in Landscape mode without rotating the image, I got the print job I wanted.   The problem may have been choosing both rotation and Landscape, which might have canceled out each other.   After posting this question, I found that others have posted questions about the same problem, so I don't know how it turned out to be so easily done.  Again, save as PDF file, then print in Landscape mode in Adobe Acrobat Reader, and it should work for you like it did for me.  🙂

[shipscript]

If using Adobe Reader to print your labels, the auto-rotate can be found on the print screen as shown below (it should be uncheckmarked if you want to use your own orientation):