-nf drops /Rotate: normalized pages render sideways

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
82/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start in PdfFontNormalizer.normalize(), where the issue identifies construction of the normalized page, then run the ignored PdfFontNormalizerEdgeCaseTest cases normalized_page_preserves_rotation and normalized_render_of_rotated_page_keeps_original_dimensions. Done means normalized pages retain the original rotation and dimensions when -nf is enabled, with both tests passing.

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Description

PdfFontNormalizer.normalize() builds the normalized page as
new PDPage(originalPage.getMediaBox()) and never calls setRotation(),
so a page with /Rotate 90 renders unrotated (sideways vs. its own baseline)
whenever -nf is enabled.

Pinned by @Ignore'd tests in PdfFontNormalizerEdgeCaseTest
(normalized_page_preserves_rotation,
normalized_render_of_rotated_page_keeps_original_dimensions).

Found by code reading during the -nf test-corpus work
(docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-10-nf-test-pdf-corpus-design.md, local);
no rotated page occurred in the 28-file real-PDF sample, so severity is
lower than the encoding defect.

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