Adjust the zoom-size when previewing PDF in Finder

[Ambrosia7177]

Hi. Is there a way to change the zoom size when I preview a PDF in Finder.

I have thousands of PDF's that I regularly need to quickly preview - and opening up each document would be a major pain.

Is there some way to adjust how the previewed document (PDF) looks when I hit my space bar?

Right now I see the entire portrait PDF - which not quite the size of my Finder window. The problem is that if I need to check a document date or title, the font is like 4-6 point font.

What I would like is a way to adjust things so that the document is screen width or at least big enough that I am not squinting to read tiny text.

This is in MacOS Sonoma 14.8 on a MacBook Pro 14"

 

[!!!]

There is generally no way of adjusting the QuickLook window permanently. You can resize it and that size will remain for the duration of the time the window is up on the screen (so, as long as you don't press space bar to dismiss it).

You can zoom in with the pinch gesture. Images will allow you to zoom with CMD+, but Apple decided not to support that on PDFs for whatever reason.

 

[Ambrosia7177]

There is generally no way of adjusting the QuickLook window permanently. You can resize it and that size will remain for the duration of the time the window is up on the screen (so, as long as you don't press space bar to dismiss it).

You can zoom in with the pinch gesture. Images will allow you to zoom with CMD+, but Apple decided not to support that on PDFs for whatever reason.

I have thousands of PDFs that I want to rename. (PDF's of YouTube video pages.)

Beneath the thumbnail is a DATE, and I am trying to get the zoom level larger enough so I don't have to glue my eyes onto my 14" laptop screen to see the date.

Opening the PDF with Cmd+O and then Cmd+(minus) is a real pain.

Would like to just tap the file in Finder, have it open in Preview to a readable zoom-level, and then tap the spacebar again to return to Finder where I can rename the file.

Sounds like that isn't doable, huh?

 

[MacCheetah3]

This(?):

You can zoom in with the pinch gesture.