Lion preview signature is wrong orientation

Loving the iSight signature creator - amazing. I've created my signature and now I want to use it.
However, when clicking it into the document it comes out rotated by 90 degrees, i.e. at a tangent to the document. Rotating the document does not help (and shouldn't).
The signature looks fine and is landscape in the signature dropdown, it's just when it is used.
I note that the annotations have no rotate handle on them so I can't even twist it around?
Am I missing something?

I too have found this a problem and have FOUND THE SOLUTION!
You use File/Print (or CMD+P) and then change the orientation of the print page to the correct orientation -- (you'll notice that Lion was trying to be super-clever by auto-rotating for printing which is why everything got confused). When you have selected the correct orientation then press CANCEL (i.e. don't print it). This orientation is then used to insert stuff on the Preview page. 
Now Preview lets you insert the signature the correct orientation in the document.
Viola!
Best
David

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