Bug 426430

Summary: Typewriter annotation doesn't use corrected page orientation
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: skierpage <info>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, r.danilo
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 25.04.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)   
OS: Linux   
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Description skierpage 2020-09-12 00:17:13 UTC 
SUMMARY
I needed to annotate a PDF with some text, but the PDF had been scanned sideways. So I used View > Orientation > Rotate Right to fix its orientation, then F6 > T to add my text annotation. But Okular also rotated this new annotation, so it appeared sideways.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF in Okular (this bug will be clearer if it was scanned sideways hence has wrong orientation).
2. Choose View > Orientation > Rotate Right (or Left) to correct its orientation.
3. Now use the Typewriter tool (F6 > T) to enter a text annotation.

OBSERVED RESULT
Okular places the text annotation upright on the page according to its _original_ orientation, meaning that it is rotated relative to the page with the corrected orientation.

EXPECTED RESULT
If you've corrected the page orientation, Okular should place text upright according to the current _corrected_ orientation, not the original page.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0 (xcb)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This occurs in Fedora 32's packaged Okular 1.9.3, and I reproduced in the kdeapps flatpak, version 1.11.70.

I tried saving the PDF with corrected orientation as a new PDF, opening the new PDF in okular, and then annotating that, and it didn't help, okular "remembered" the original orientation.

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/7631#issuecomment-247857666 talks about annotations, rotations, a NoRotate flag in PDF, this might be relevant.
Comment 1 Laura David Hurka 2020-09-12 11:15:25 UTC 
Indeed, Okular does not know about rotation for text and for annotations. Stamp annotations have the same problem.

I don’t know whether this is possible in PDF, your link doesn’t really make me smarter.
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2020-09-12 17:16:32 UTC 
This is not a bug.

I think your expectation is that Rotating rotates the document, but it does not, it just rotates the view, so obviously the annotation you add is also rotated.

You should actually use some tool to rotate your document if it's broken.
Comment 3 rdan 2025-06-15 10:42:18 UTC 
Bonjour, Hello, 

je souhaite réaliser une rotation (ex. 180°) sur les textes insérés via “Insert Text” et ce n'est pas possible dans la version 25.04.2 et j'ai l'impression que ce n'est toujours pas possible dans les versions plus récentes.

I confirm that this issue is still present in Okular 25.04.2. Inserted text annotations remain upright even when the page is rotated 180°, and there is currently no option to rotate the inserted text itself. This feature would be very helpful for document editing. Please consider implementing it.

Grand Merci,

thank you very much,

rdan