Creating zoom shortcut

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
June 30, 2025
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How can I create a action or a key which can zoom out the document to a specific percentage (say 20%) whenever I press them?

Correct answer Kurt Gold

In case you want to set an absolute zoom level, you can use this javascript snippet to always go to 20 %:

// Absolute Zoom level: 20 %
if (app.activeDocument) {
    app.activeDocument.views[0].zoom = 0.2;
}

You can incorporate it into an action and assign a keyboard shortcut to the action.

Kurt Gold

Correct answer

Community Expert

In case you want to set an absolute zoom level, you can use this javascript snippet to always go to 20 %:

// Absolute Zoom level: 20 %
if (app.activeDocument) {
    app.activeDocument.views[0].zoom = 0.2;
}

You can incorporate it into an action and assign a keyboard shortcut to the action.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

That works as how I understood the question.

Nicky G.

Known Participant

// Riduci lo zoom corrente del 20%

if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var currentZoom = doc.views[0].zoom; // valore in scala (es. 1.0 = 100%)

var newZoom = currentZoom * 0.8; // riduci del 20%
doc.views[0].zoom = newZoom;

//alert("Zoom ridotto del 20%");
} else {
alert("Nessun documento aperto.");
}

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

That zooms from 100 to 80% on my machine.

Nicky G.

Known Participant

And wasn't that the request? If you run the script 2 times it goes to 64% ....

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