Viewing Page Display/Zoom Default not working

[Meao]

Hi,

On 20.9.20067.384717.

I've read a few post on the forum here to find a fix and none seem to work or applicable.

When I am viewing a large pdf say 1000 pages and there are chapter markers, when I jump between chapters the page view resets to fit or full width view as per the view settings in prefs.

I am trying to keep full page height, and have to manually go back to the menu each time to reset it.

It seems that whatever prefs are set that there is no pref  for full page height so I must manually do it between each chapter jump.

The option for page height strangely is missing a shortcut option in the main menu and I guess is a bug linked to this behaviour.

Thanks. 

[Document Geek]

Honestly, this is the first I've ever seen of Fit Height. I think what you may be after is the "Zoom to Page Level" option. Cmd + 0. That fits the entire document in your screen. It should work the same as Fit Height.

[Meao]

Yes...I should have tried the zoom to page level, this does do the same (as far as I can see in this use case), so that's a bit of extra clicking around cut down...

Unfortunately this zoom to page level does not seem to be a pref option for a default view. I'll still need to keep doing this shortcut between chapters till it is made into a default view option, but till then this shortcut is a good stopgap, thanks.

[Dave__M]

Although it does seem odd that Acrobat does not have a preference for Fit Height, you can set a Document-based setting to do so.  In the Document Properties, on the Initial View tab, it is there.  This will  allow you to, if you wish, and if you have security permission to do so, set a document's initial view to Fit Height.  Once the file is saved, it should always open this way.

I hope this is helpful information.

My best,

Dave

[Meao]

Hi Dave,

I'm on a mac and don't think that there is a way to chose this option.

Your idea though did make me google the issue under different terms and I found that there is a setting in accessibility to override the default view setting...unfortunately applying this setting, even saving the doc and restarting the app has had no effect on the issue, pages still jump to full width on clicking on chapters regardless.

(Additionally to anyone else reading this, in case someone thinks these setting are not working/being applied  because of some security locking the PDF the document is not locked/or has any security measures applied)

Thanks again.

[Dave__M · Accepted solution]

Ah - you may have just uncovered the issue in your last note... are you clicking on Bookmarks (chapters) to navigate your document?  If so, that's  where the issue lies.  A bookmark points to a location, AT A SPECIFIED MAGNIFICATION.  Those bookmarks don't just point to a page - but a page at a zoom level.  One can reset a bookmark's destination by having the appropriate zoom/location showing, right-clicking, and choosing Set destination.  If you have a few, it's easy.  If you have a huge amount... not a quick task.

I hope this is helpful.

Dave

[Meao]

Hi Dave, that is great, thank you, yes I have a huge amount, I've multiple technical documents with 1000's of pages and hundreds of bookmarks so I'll wont be editing each one. The shortcut mentioned above for "Zoom to Page Level"  will be the easiest way to cope with it. 

It would be nice if Adobe gave some option to override this, I guess whoever made the document didn't think of different people with different screen sizes etc.. 

Thanks for all the help folks.

[shariw28097063]

When the window is maximized, however, it shows 100% instead of page view or fit height...is there some way to control that??