View menu > Fit Width?

[Jeff Witchel, ACI]

There are a lot of invaluable View commands under the View menu. But there's one command, I know would be very useful, but it does not exist—Fit Page Width. 

Whenever I want to edit copy, I manually Zoom to the Width of the page I'm working on.

Is this a feature anyone else would be interested in?

Looking forward to responses!

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Added options are usually a good thing for any feature, and I too often need to zoom to something like this level for close work. But Ctrl-Alt-0 and Ctrl-+ once or twice works for me. A keyboard or system macro could be used to make it a one-key solution customized to your preferences, too.

It's always a tradeoff between this feature expansion and keeping the monstrous menu and option management UI reasonable. 🙂

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[Barb Binder]

@Jeff Witchel, ACI:

I'll vote for it if you add it as a feature request. Just post the link here.

~Barb

[rob day]

Hi Jeff, you can get the correct zoom percenatge to fit the document to the window width via scripting, although I don’t know of a way to adjust the horizontal scroll bar to center once the percentage has been changed. Try this:

app.scriptPreferences.measurementUnit = MeasurementUnits.PIXELS;
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var wb =  app.activeWindow.bounds
var aw = (wb[3]-wb[1])-15
var docpx = doc.documentPreferences.pageWidth * (app.generalPreferences.mainMonitorPpi/72)
app.activeWindow.zoomPercentage = Math.round((aw/docpx)*100);

[Jeff Witchel, ACI · Accepted solution]

Please vote for InDesign Feature Request: 

View menu > Fit Page Width to Screen: https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests?query=View%20Menu%20Fit...