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dzgnr89
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July 26, 2017
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Bypassing zoom limits

  • July 26, 2017
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I am making a banner of size 100 inches by 180 inches. I want to zoom below 5 percent so that I am able to see the page in full height. But InDesign won't let me do so. What can I do to bypass this limit without resizing my document to a smaller size (in order to see full height) and increasing the size later?

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    Correct answer rob day

    What can I do to bypass this limit without resizing my document to a smaller size (in order to see full height) and increasing the size later?

    Have you tried Screen Mode>Presentation?

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    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    July 26, 2017

    What can I do to bypass this limit without resizing my document to a smaller size (in order to see full height) and increasing the size later?

    Have you tried Screen Mode>Presentation?

    dzgnr89
    dzgnr89Author
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    July 26, 2017

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/rob+day  wrote

    What can I do to bypass this limit without resizing my document to a smaller size (in order to see full height) and increasing the size later?

    Have you tried Screen Mode>Presentation?

    Oh!! Thanks a lot!! I have used this mode a lot in the past and could not think of it as a solution.

    Jongware
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    JongwareCommunity Expert
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    July 26, 2017

    Are you working on a 640 x 480 pixel screen? Or do you have your main InDesign window set very small?

    To see an entire 100' x 180' page, I don't have to scale any less than 10% (if it's portrait) or 17% (if it's landscape). But that's on a 2560 x 1440 pixel screen, and with the InDesign window scaled to the full screen.

    dzgnr89
    dzgnr89Author
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    July 26, 2017

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/%5BJongware%5D  wrote

    Are you working on a 640 x 480 pixel screen? Or do you have your main InDesign window set very small?

    To see an entire 100' x 180' page, I don't have to scale any less than 10% (if it's portrait) or 17% (if it's landscape). But that's on a 2560 x 1440 pixel screen, and with the InDesign window scaled to the full screen.

    I am working on 1280x720 pixel screen.

    rob day
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    rob dayCommunity Expert
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    July 26, 2017

    I am working on 1280x720 pixel screen.

    Starting with CS6 the zoom level is based on the print output dimension and not the monitor resolution. InDesign goes to your system and gets the monitor info to set the 100% view so that the 1" displayed on your rulers will physically measure 1". Prior to CS6 the 100% view was 1:1 ratio of your monitor to image pixels—same as Photoshop—and on most displays the 100% zoom view was smaller than the actual output size.

    So at 180" you would need 9" of physical monitor space to display the full page at 5% (180 x .05).

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