Pasted form field rotates 90 degrees

Copy & paste form field from old version always does the following to the new form field.
Rotates 90 degrees
Changes Horizontal & vertical size.
The only way I have found to fix this to date is to re-create in the new form.
Does someone have an easier method?
Thank you,

Even though a page appears on screen in portrait orientation, it could in fact be a rotated (+/- 90 degrees) landscape page, with all of the page contents rotated as well. You can tell by examining the internal page rotation setting, but this isn't really necessary as it is undoubtedly the reason. You might wonder how or why this could have happened, and it goes back to what was used to create the PDF in the first place. It's unlikely that they two PDFs were created from the same type of source document with the same application and method of converting to PDF. This internal page rotation normally doesn't matter, but it does when working with annotations, which ahve rotation values relative to the page on which they're placed. So when you copy a field from a page with one rotation onto another with a different rotation, you'll see this behavior.

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 $trans_tbl[chr(142)] = 'Ž' ; // Z caron
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