Opening a PDF file in 100% view.

Thank you!

Oh, thank you very much !!!

I have been trying to figure out how to change these settings for months now. Thank you _graffiti for this. I hope it works!

Ok, here is a reverse logic trick that works for me using reader DC free (source link:

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from the comments near the bottom).

"Dennis says

November 5, 2018 at 1:23 pm

Mursel and Obi, try de-selecting the “Always use zoom setting” checkbox in the Accessibility tab and it should default to whatever you have selected on the “Page Display” setting."

I hope this saves you the untold hours of frustration I & many others have lost trying to resolve this perennial & idiotic oversight by Adobe developers.

Manually for a specific file

1. Open the file in Acrobat

2. Go to Menu > Properties > Initial View and change “Magnification” to “Actual Size”

3. Save

if you can’t find that in your menu, you probably have a light/test/viewing-only version of Acrobat installed.

Automatically as a Default, as @~graffiti wrote earlier above

You can set aLL PDF's to open in 100% view by going to Edit>Preferences>Page Display>Default layout and zoom.

If the creator has set a file to open at a different size, those settings will be ignored.

How do I get them to always open in 100% view?

With Adobe Acrobat you can set the initial view of the pdf file.