Improve ergonomic for rotating pages

Right now, the only two ways to rotate a page is to:
1. Scroll to page, Edit -> Rotate Page Left/Right
2. Open sidebar, right click page, Rotate Left/Right

Both methods are non-obvious considering other PDF readers both proprietary (Foxit Reader, in ribbon menu at the default Home tab) and FOSS (SumatraPDF, control bar as 2 buttons) offering the feature. Furthermore, there is no option to batch rotate multiple pages. This impacts documents with a lot rotated pages, such as https://doi.org/10.1093/nutrit/nuz041.

There are wishes to have the ergonomic issue addressed, all of which has since been ignored and gone stale (> 30d w/o response). A search on GitHub (https://github.com/search?q=org:zotero+rotate&type=issues) shows no developer response; and constructive feedback being met with a rather snarky tone (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/477091/#Comment_477091).

Relevant discussions and comments:
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/120665/requesting-rotate-button
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/118894/pdf-reader-suggestions
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/426603/#Comment_426603
  • Furthermore, there is no option to batch rotate multiple pages.
    You can select multiple pages in the thumbnail tab and rotate them from there. But the Edit menu option should probably operate on all selected pages in the thumbnail tab as well, so we'll look into changing that.
    constructive feedback being met with a rather snarky tone
    You're misinterpreting a basic question. Please assume good faith if you're going to post here.

    Beyond that, it's fine to make a feature request for something you would personally find useful, but please avoid hyperbole. There's nothing "non-obvious" about an option in the Edit menu.
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