Zoom to fit page shortcut not working

[Marcelloid]

I've been using Acrobat Pro for years. I use it as a teacher for presentation purposes too. On both Mac and PC.

Now I've just noticed something which breaks my workflow badly, presentation-wise, on my new Win 10 Pro, HP zBook 15v laptop with a Swiss French keyboard layout. The shortcut "Ctrl+0", which has worked on both platforms since forever, normally zooms to fit the page both in windowed and fullscreen mode. But not on my laptop; it now increases the zoom level by a fixed increment, which is totally useless to me.

I desperately need this feature because I keep zooming in and out of documents for my courses, and the current state of affairs in the zooming business is "BROKEN". And my first course for the semester is tomorrow...

My version of Acrobat is 2017.011.30120.

I have a bad feeling that I'm stuck with this broken behavior, but any help or workaround will be appreciated.

[try67]

Not quite. Ctrl+0 switches to "Zoom to page level" and Ctrl+1 switches to "Actual Size".

Ctrl+(+) increases the zoom and Ctrl+(-) decreases it.

[Bernd Alheit]

Not quite.

[jane-e]

I am on a Mac at home, but use Windows for Acrobat at work. I just tested with scrolling on and off. My shortcuts work with both scrolling options. I agree with Gilad on the zoom shortcuts. I use them all the time.

Cmd+0     Fit in Window

Cmd+1     100%

Cmd++     Zoom in

Cmd+-     Zoom out

In addition, these shortcuts work the same way in InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator. They are standard Adobe shortcuts.

Bernd, have you customized yours? What version of Acrobat are you using?

[Andreas5C69]

On Windows ctrl+0 increases the zoom and ctrl+1 decreases the zoom.

By @Bernd Alheit

This is only half the truth. With an english input setting CRTL+0 fits to page, with a german layout for example it increases zoom. Someone at the acrobat development team screwed this up years ago and nobody has bothererd to fix it yet. Because CRTL+0 has been the standard for fit to page for years in all other adobe applications.

[jane-e]

Marcelloid  wrote

I've been using Acrobat Pro for years. I use it as a teacher for presentation purposes too. On both Mac and PC.

Now I've just noticed something which breaks my workflow badly, presentation-wise, on my new Win 10 Pro, HP zBook 15v laptop with a Swiss French keyboard layout.

After reading Bernd's reply, I wonder if  we can blame the Swiss French keyboard for the change in the shortcut?

Bernd Alheit, what keyboard do you have? Maybe this is why our shortcuts are so very different?

Marcelloid​, does it still work on your Mac? What keyboard does that have?

~ Jane

[Bernd Alheit]

I use a German keyboard.

[Test Screen Name]

I wonder if you can borrow a US or UK keyboard to test with. At least worth a try.

[Marcelloid]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Test+Screen+Name  wrote

I wonder if you can borrow a US or UK keyboard to test with. At least worth a try.

Just did. No change.

[Marcelloid]

Anything new on this front? I'm still fiddling with my PDFs awkwardly in front of class for what appears to be a trivial problem. Why cannot Acrobat come equipped with customizeable shortcuts? That would solve any international keyboard problems like this and push people to using PDFs for presentations, which are actually really good for that too.

[SBR404]

2 German Windows machines here, same problem as with Marcelloid. Ctr+0 and Crtl+2 are basically the same function. Mac works as intended.

I've had this problem for years, get your act together, Adobe!

[David.G.P]

Adobe get your sheet together and blundy fix this! CTRL+0 zooms in in Windows as have many reported, instead of zooming to the page. Years have passed and you guys keep doing nothing but charging insane amounts of money for terrible software.

[DaCryptum]

Almost in 2026 and still same problem as Marcelloid, with Swiss french keyboards (QWERTZ) on a US language Win11, my Zoom out is CTRL+¨ and Zoom in CTRL+0 !! Tried to find a workaround but noway....

For such a 1st world famous software for PDF reading, this is crazy it wasn't fixed until now.....!

[JR Boulay]

On my Dell + Windows 10 the (Cmd+- Zoom out) shortcut have an unexpected behavior: it create a sticky note in the middle of the page!

I'm waiting since 2 years for this bug to be fixed…

[EmmettBrown]

It's been 6 years. Making and selling software is a hard task indeed, but 6 years sounds like a long enough period that an update could integrate customizable keyboard shortcuts. That would make life easier, and present users with something more useful than cloud-services-pushing UI modifications, which are nothing but obstructing, useless bloat, as far as I'm concerned.