[thelist] make PDFs open at 100%

[Jason Handby]

> 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%.
> 
> Another option might be the hash "#page=1&view=fitH", meaning start
the
> display on page 1 of the document, and scale the document to fit the
> horizontal width of its container.
> 
> I've not tried this using PDF viewers other than Adobe Acrobat.
> 
> Adobe's "PDF Open Parameters" documentation for Acrobat 7 (downlevel,
I
> know) is at:
>
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters
> .pdf

This is a much better idea. I wish my google skills had enabled me to
find it before posting :-)  Thanks Steve, these look very useful.


Jason