Hello everyone… I have a question… I have pdf links to my website and wonder if there is a way to adjust the size as at the moment it pops up at 137%
Thanks for the help
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Sometime around 4/4/09 (at 11:44 -0400) Carla said:
Hello everyone… I have a question… I have pdf links to my website
and wonder if there is a way to adjust the size as at the moment it
pops up at 137%
Argh! PDF and display sizes… grrrr. >:-(
Despite knowing exactly what 100% means in professional publishing
terms Adobe has set the most recent versions of Acrobat and Adobe
Reader to display documents scaled to sizes derived from some
mathematical derivative of Windows display dot-pitch, phases of the
moon, and the number they first thought of.
However, if you go into Acrobat Pro and look for Document Settings or
Properties you’ll find a way to set the initial view to a particular
scale. Although remember 100% in PDF terms ain’t necessarily quite
what you might think.
Grrr.
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On 4 Apr 2009, at 16:58, Keith Martin wrote:
Although remember 100% in PDF terms ain’t necessarily quite what you
might think.
I find a neat way of over coming the problem is to forget the scale
(which will appear differently according to monitor/browser/window
size, et al) and set the PDF to show at full height. This means the
complete page can be seen on screen and the reader can re-scale, if
necessary, to suit his/her particular configuration or eyesight
requirements. This means the full page content is immediately seen.
In Acrobat Pro, it’s Command+D for ‘Document Properties’, then the
‘Initial View’ tab and set ‘Magnify’ to ‘Fit height’.
You can also set pages to appear two up as spreads, if you wish, in
‘Document Properties’ >‘Page Layout’.
And if you want to know my pet hate with PDF’s for consumer download,
it’s all those publications made from digital artwork for print that
still show the crop marks. It looks soooooo unprofessional yet it’s so
easy to crop out, but you still find it - even on well know brand sites!
Colin
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Sometime around 4/4/09 (at 18:13 +0100) Colin Alcock said:
forget the scale (which will appear differently according to
monitor/browser/window size, et al) and set the PDF to show at full
height.
Yep. But it does totally screw over the idea of using PDF as a
controllable format for creating screen-ONLY, screen-friendly
layouts. There’s no way at all, now, to design a page to show at a
specific pixel size.
This means crafting page designs specifically for screen with
pixel-perfect body text fonts, graphics and all is no longer
possible. It all gets scaled effectively uncontrollably and
antialiased to the new size when displayed.
I say again: GRRRR!
if you want to know my pet hate with PDF’s for consumer download,
it’s all those publications made from digital artwork for print that
still show the crop marks.
Ouch. Yes. And what’s with including crops in the visible output
anyway? Modern imposition and RIP apps prefer to deal with that
themselves based on the art/trim/bleedbox bounds data that’s embedded
in the PDF. (In fact, including crops in PDF artwork to be imposed is
one of the quickest ways to annoy the prepress operator - and incur
prep charges.)
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