View all open images in "Fit on Screen" mode?

[Owen Linzmayer]

I have Photoshop CS4 on the Mac. Whenever I open an image, the first thing I do is press the Command-0 (zero) shortcut to choose View > Fit on Screen, which fills the screen with the image. Ideally I'd like to find a way to make Photoshop default to opening all images like this, but after searching the forums I've seen others ask about this feature request and there doesn't seem to be any way to tweak the prefs to allow this.

So what I'm hoping for is someone to help me figure out if a script or action can be written that will cycle through all the currently open images in Photoshop and change their view magnification to Fit on Screen. I have thousands of images to process and if I could save myself the trouble of manually entering the shortcut all the time, it would be a treat.

[jugenjury]

Create an action that will fit the image to view.

Go under File>Scripts>Scripts Event Manager.

For Photoshop Event, choose Open Document.

Click the radio button to run an action and choose your action.

Click Add then click Done then test it out.

[Owen Linzmayer]

Thanks for the reply. It certainly seems like this should work, but the problem appears to be that choosing View > Fit on Screen is not a recordable action. As a result, your suggestion doesn't work because I can't seem to create an action to change the View mode. Am I missing something obvious here?

[Owen Linzmayer]

Disregard my previous post. I figured out how to add a nonrecordable menu selection to an action and now Photoshop CS4 works as I requested. Thanks so much for pointing me towards the solution. Xmas came early for me!

[Michael_L_Hale]

For others reading this thread you choose Insert Menu Item... from the action panel's flyout menu to add the fit on Screen menu to the action.

[gener7]

There is a script called "Fit on screen". Ready to go. It has clear instructions on how to install and set up.

http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=58

When you launch Photoshop to set the Script manager,right click on your PS icon and select "run as administrator."