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You are here: Home / Articles / Software / Configure Adobe Acrobat and Reader to open PDFs at 100% by default

Configure Adobe Acrobat and Reader to open PDFs at 100% by default

2013-10-30 by Jason

For years (years!), I have been annoyed by a behavior of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. When you open up a PDF, the viewer will scale the PDF to fit your resolution. On my monitor with 1680×1050 resolution, PDFs would start off zoomed to 174%. On my other monitor with 1920×1200 resolution, documents would start zoomed in to 232%. Every time after opening the PDF, I will click the zoom out button until it gets to 100%.

To me, that makes no sense! Just because I have more screen real estate, I probably don’t want to see the same thing but larger. I want to be able to fit more on the screen. Fortunately, there is an easy setting to change this behavior in version 10 and 11 of Reader and Acrobat. I just never bothered to look before.

To adjust the behavior, go to the Edit menu, and select Preferences…

A new window will pop up and under the Page Display category, there is a ‘Default Layout and Zoom’ setting. I changed the Zoom drop-down to 100%. Be sure to hit Ok. Then close Reader or Acrobat and try opening a PDF.

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I am now much happier with the experience of opening a PDF. When I open a PDF, it starts off at 100%. You can try different settings to find your preference such as a fixed zoom percentage or ‘Fit Page’, ‘Fit Width’, or ‘Fit Visible’.

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