Set the default zoom

JCHHenderson · August 8, 2025, 12:37pm

Hi,

Is there any way set the default zoom view to “Zoom to fit” (it always starts “fit page”)?

BLUEFROG · August 8, 2025, 1:22pm

Files > Multimedia > PDF Display and choose a Non-Continuous mode.

This is in the Settings > Files chapter of the built-in Help and manual.

cgrunenberg · August 8, 2025, 1:25pm

The help viewer’s chat of DEVONthink 4 (Pro/Server) can answer such questions too and immediately:

For this test I used OpenAI GPT 4.1 (Mini).

BLUEFROG · August 8, 2025, 2:21pm

But there isn’t a Zoom to Fit option under the PDF Display settings. There is for the Images

JCHHenderson · August 8, 2025, 2:25pm

thanks all!

…I did search the manual but wouldn’t have found that in a million years. I was searching for things like “default zoom”.

cgrunenberg · August 8, 2025, 2:39pm

Too many options so that even the developer gets confused

JCHHenderson · August 8, 2025, 2:42pm

This is a nice example of v4’s functionality (I’m currently on v3).

BLUEFROG · August 8, 2025, 3:03pm

Just a note: This PDF Display controls I mentioned have been the same since DT 2.x

stratadata · August 9, 2025, 4:11am

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