# Set a default zoom for display of documents?
**URL:** https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454
**Category:** DEVONthink
**Created:** [August 17, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454 "2019-08-17T13:27:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@tharpold](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/tharpold)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/1 "2019-08-17T13:27:42Z")
My principal use of DT3b6 is to file and organize _a lot_ of documents used in my scholarly research, primarily .pdfs of articles and books. My display preference when searching and viewing these documents is “Zoom to Width”: I can easily drag the window to the best size for easy reading (these eyes are getting a little old) or use Moom to snap it to any of several predefined settings.
It would be a great help to me to have a way to set a default zoom setting that applies across all documents: Zoom to Width or Zoom to Fit, etc. Is this possible? Am I missing a setting somewhere that will accomplish this?
TH
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### Author:  [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2019, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/2 "2019-08-17T17:50:36Z")
With **Automatically resize** enabled in **Preferences \> Media \> PDF Display** , setting it to:
**Single Page** or **Two Pages** defaults to **Zoom to Fit**
**Single Page Continuous** or **Two Pages Continuous** defaults to **Zoom to Width**.
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### Author:  [@tharpold](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/tharpold)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/3 "2019-08-18T13:13:40Z")
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@uimike](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/uimike)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/4 "2019-09-22T02:21:39Z")
Thanks from my side as well, Jim!
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@uimike](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/uimike)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/5 "2019-09-22T02:22:01Z")
BTW, well implemented!
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### Author:  [@apb123](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/apb123)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/6 "2019-09-22T08:01:33Z")
Wow. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/7 "2019-09-22T13:47:39Z")
Thanks go to @cgrunenberg but I’m sure he’ll see them now 🙂
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### Author:  [@halloleo](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/halloleo)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/set-a-default-zoom-for-display-of-documents/49454/8 "2022-10-06T01:40:51Z")
Want to say Thanks for this too.
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_Meta Note:_ Maybe a Like _alone_ would be more appropriate, but I feel this post (and the feature) needs more than that…