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2007-07-10 06:48:08
Paeon
Registered: Apr 12 2007
Posts: 30

Hi,
I made a lovely presentation on the Mac side using all of Acrobat's enhancement features. I set the initial view to 100%. On the Mac, this puts the Window at 100% and the pages fit inside the window.

On the PC, the initial view is also 100%, but the zoom is such that only a third of the page shows in the window. If I change the view to 50%, I get approximately the view that shows on the Mac (which is what I want).

Is there anyway to detect the user's operating system and adjust the initial view accordingly? Or any ideas. I tried using Fit Page, but the first view is too large (and not very pretty.)

Thanks.

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2007-07-10 10:02:30
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gkaiseril
Expert
Registered: Feb 23 2006
Posts: 4307
This sounds more like a veiwer screen resolution issue, "Finding user screen resolution with JavaScript" http://www.planetpdf.com/enterprise/article.asp?ContentID=FindinguserscreenresolutionwithJavaScript&gid=6897Why not use the "Fit in Window" magnification?

You can also use a document level JavaScript to set the "zoomType" to fit the page, which should force the view to page size for whatever resolution the user has.:

this.zoomType = zoomtype.fitP; // set zoom to fit page

George Kaiser

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2007-07-10 11:09:12
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Paeon
Registered: Apr 12 2007
Posts: 30
Thanks, I will try those solutions.
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