[thelist] make PDFs open at 100%

Hassan Schroeder hassan.schroeder at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 20:08:16 CDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Steve Bigelow<steve.bigelow at tkcsb.com> wrote:
> You can specify a lot of the display attributes in the hash of the URL used
> to open the PDF document.
>
> For example, this link inside an HTML page might do what you want:
>
> [URLPathToThePDFDocument]/ThePDFDocument.pdf#zoom=100
>
> ...where the key piece is the URL hash "#zoom=100", meaning you want the
> document to be scaled to 100%.

OK, but why should you *have* to do that? What makes PDFs open
at arbitrary goofy sizes? Why wouldn't "100%" be the *default*??

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