Rotate a pdf to landscape for Kindle

rotate-pdf.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# Rotate a pdf to landscape for Kindle
# http://gist.github.com/612853
# coded by jong10 <jong10@gmail.com>

# Usage (example)
# > python rotate-pdf.py input.pdf output.pdf

# supress deprecated warnings
import warnings
warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning)

import sys
import pyPdf

if __name__ == '__main__':
	if len(sys.argv) != 3:
		print 'Usage: %s [input-pdf] [output-pdf]' % sys.argv[0]
		exit(1)

	o = pyPdf.PdfFileWriter()
	i = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(sys.argv[1], "rb"));

	for p in i.pages:
		o.addPage(p.rotateCounterClockwise(90))

	ostream = file(sys.argv[2], "wb")
	o.write(ostream)
	ostream.close()