Changing Preview's Default Zoom Size?

[kaboomer]

Recently upgraded to 10.6 and I'm finding that Preview opens pdfs at an annoyingly high zoom level. I'd like to change the preferences so that every time I open a pdf it opens withone page fitting perfectly on my laptop screen.

There doesn't seem to be a control for this in the preferences. I downloaded an app called "Pref Setter" so that I could get under the hood and change the default that controls this, but I can't tell which of the prefs I should be changing.

Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be anything specifically addressing this issue on the innertoobz. Anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

 

[kaboomer]

bump

 

[kaboomer]

really? Nobody on this?

 

[Pomeroy]

Have you put a check mark in "Automatically Resize" under Previews View menu? Then set the prefs you want in preferences or drag the buttons you need into the Tool bar using "Customize Toolbar".

 

[kaboomer]

Thanks Pomeroy. Yes, I did try putting a check mark in "Automatically Resize", but that doesn't seem to have solved the problem. What I'm after is a fixed default page size that every .pdf opens with - anyone know how to accomplish that?

 

[johnnyrains]

preview's default zoom

I don't know about 10.6, but with 10.58 in the prefs of preview, look at 'pdf' tab, then 'use scale of' and pick a suitable magnification. This has helped me, as I found everything too small everytime I opened a document.

 

[Pomeroy]

I don't know about 10.6, but with 10.58 in the prefs of preview, look at 'pdf' tab, then 'use scale of' and pick a suitable magnification. This has helped me, as I found everything too small everytime I opened a document.

It is the same in 10.6. As I said in my last post, putting a check mark in "Automatically Resize" doesn't do it alone, you have to go into Previews preferences and tell it how much you want it to "Automatically Resize" to. I would just put the "Scale" and "Actual Size" buttons in the tool bar for easy access.

 

[kaboomer]

johnnyrains - you're a genius! Thank you so much!