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Jmprado
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November 10, 2014
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How can I make my PDF open to "Fit One Full Page to Window" by default regardless of who is opening it?

  • November 10, 2014
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Hi, everyone. I am currently creating PDFs that have different page sizes (2 pages at 8.5" x 11" and other pages that range from 40"w x 80"h to 150"w x 150"h). I'm trying to package some artwork templates and artwork guidelines together for my clients to make it easier for them to access this information.

The current issue I am running into is that I cannot figure out how to make these PDFs open with a default view of "Fit One Full Page to Window". I know how to set the default on my Acrobat Reader but I need it to default to this view when someone else opens it on their computer to view. (PDF currently opens the first page correctly but the rest of the pages are not previewing to fit page based on their page size. The only thing that reacts the way I want these documents to be viewed is the "Fit One Full Page In Window" option but I need to know how to default the PDF to view this way every time.)

Any help is appreciated! I'm under a deadline so the sooner I can resolve this the better!

Thanks in advance!

Jenny

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
November 10, 2014

With Acrobat one can set the properties for a PDF and set the initial view. This should be honored by Acrobat and Reader but there are 3rd party viewers that might not honor these settings.

Note that the Initial View of the Properties for a given PDF will override the application Preferences.


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JmpradoAuthor
Participant
November 10, 2014

Thank you for the reply!

I know that you can set the initial view in the Properties > Initial View Dialog but it doesn't work for the type of document I'm setting up since the page sizes are all different. I'm really wondering if there is a default setting that you can attach to each PDF that reacts how "Fit One Full Page to Window" reacts. This fits all of the pages in the document, regardless of size, to screen.

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gkaiseril
Inspiring
November 10, 2014

There is an option for the Initial View that is "Magnification:" "Fit Page".  And this works for the initial page when the PDF is opened and it does not matter what the page size it, Acrobat/Reader will automatically fill the screen with the page. If you want the zoom type to change with each page then you need  add a page open script to each page to set the pages zoom type to "zoomtype.fitP"

this.zoomType = zoomtype.fitP;

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