Still confused about Zoom to width for PDFs

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I’m still confused about Zoom to Width for PDFs:

When i have a normal short, say 1-page PDF it views perfectly in DT3:

I select it and it shows automatically as Zoomed to Width (because I have set the PDF Display setting to “Single Page Continuous”).

But then I select a loooong 260-pages PDF – and it shows rather small as if I had selected "“Single Page”. Even hitting manually Ctrl-Cmd-W does not change this.

Why’s that and what can I do about it?

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Not sure, but that happens when the PDF has a bigger page (landscaped, for example) and it adjusts to the biggest page. At least this was the reason when it happened to me.

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The magnification is mapped to the page mode.

Continuous modes map to Zoom to Fit.
Non-Continuous modes map to Zoom to Width.

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That explains it! Makes total sense.

I guess it means I can’t do anything about it…

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What I do in that case, is set to continuous and zoom manually zoom to the normal page width. And then spacebar scrolls screen by screen.

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Good idea. Thans.

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