I have tried this with pretty much every pdf library available to use with PHP and all have the same results. 1. I create a new pdf. 2. I rotate a jpeg using gd's imagerotate 3. I output the jpeg to a new pdf page 4. I then output the pdf to the browser and/or to a file. When I view the pdf, the image that was embedded in the pdf page has a large black rectangular area taking up the first 1/4 of the image. If I do not rotate the image, there is no large black rectangular area. Anybody has an idea what's going on? Thanks, Brent