"/Rotate" keyword in PDF files is ignored in Keynote and Pages

Hi,
Some PDF files have "/Rotate" tag in their header to display a part of pages or whole pages being rotated. For example, if a PDF has "/Rotate 90" in the header, pages of the file are shown with being rotated 90 degree clock wise. This keyword is valid in Acrobat, Preview.app, MS Office and many other applications. However, the "/Rotate" keyword is ignored in Keynote and Pages.
Here is examples of PDF which include /Rotate tag. Please save the following text in a file whose extension is ".pdf".
=== Example 1 (not rotated) ===
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<</Type /Catalog
/Pages 2 0 R
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Type /Pages
/Kids [3 0 R]
/Count 1
endobj
3 0 obj
<</Type /Page
/Parent 2 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 612 792 ]
/Contents 4 0 R
/Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R >>
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Length 0 >>
stream
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
[/PDF ]
endobj
xref
0 6
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000063 00000 n
0000000125 00000 n
0000000251 00000 n
0000000305 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 6
/Root 1 0 R
startxref
331
%%EOF
==============
=== Example 2 (rotated) ===
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<</Type /Catalog
/Pages 2 0 R
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Type /Pages
/Rotate 90
/Kids [3 0 R]
/Count 1
endobj
3 0 obj
<</Type /Page
/Parent 2 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 612 792 ]
/Contents 4 0 R
/Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R >>
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Length 0 >>
stream
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
[/PDF ]
endobj
xref
0 6
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000063 00000 n
0000000125 00000 n
0000000251 00000 n
0000000305 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 6
/Root 1 0 R
startxref
331
%%EOF
==============
Both of PDFs are displayed in Keynote with a size of 612 x 792 pixel. But the example 2 should be 792 x 612 because it has "/Rotate 90" tag in it.
Does anyone know how to avoid this problem? Of course I know that I can rotate the example 2 by hand in those applications.

Hi,
Please use the following examples, but replace "@dummy1@" with "[", and "@dummy2" with ">>", in TextEdit.app. It should work.
=== example1.pdf ===
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<</Type /Catalog
/Pages 2 0 R
@dummy2@
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Type /Pages
/Kids @dummy1@3 0 R]
/Count 1
@dummy2@
endobj
3 0 obj
<</Type /Page
/Parent 2 0 R
/MediaBox @dummy1@0 0 612 792 ]
/Contents 4 0 R
/Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R @dummy2@
@dummy2@
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Length 0 @dummy2@
stream
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
@dummy1@/PDF ]
endobj
xref
0 6
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000063 00000 n
0000000125 00000 n
0000000251 00000 n
0000000305 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 6
/Root 1 0 R
@dummy2@
startxref
331
%%EOF
===============
=== example2.pdf ===
%PDF-1.4
1 0 obj
<</Type /Catalog
/Pages 2 0 R
@dummy2@
endobj
2 0 obj
<</Type /Pages
/Rotate 90
/Kids @dummy1@3 0 R]
/Count 1
@dummy2@
endobj
3 0 obj
<</Type /Page
/Parent 2 0 R
/MediaBox @dummy1@0 0 612 792 ]
/Contents 4 0 R
/Resource <</ProcSet 5 0 R @dummy2@
@dummy2@
endobj
4 0 obj
<</Length 0 @dummy2@
stream
endstream
endobj
5 0 obj
@dummy1@/PDF ]
endobj
xref
0 6
0000000000 65535 f
0000000010 00000 n
0000000063 00000 n
0000000125 00000 n
0000000251 00000 n
0000000305 00000 n
trailer
<< /Size 6
/Root 1 0 R
@dummy2@
startxref
331
%%EOF
===============
Message was edited by: Akira Okumura

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