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
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
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.