On 9/29/21 6:17 PM, Doug Martin wrote:
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:24 PM Andrew Parsloe <ajpars...@gmail.com
<mailto:ajpars...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 30/09/2021 9:03 am, Doug Martin wrote:
Rasmus,
Thanks for your quick response.
Of course one can do what you suggest, and I have done it.
But I do a lot of editing of LYX files and compiling to pdf
(many! times a day), and I want the pdf
file to be at 125% when I open it, and not have to scroll to get
that.
I did find that there is a LaTeX \mag xxxx, e.g., \mag 1200 for
20% increase, but I haven't been
able to succeed using it by opening the LYX file and adding \mag
1200 (or whatever xxxx turns
out to be needed), and saving it, whereupon I get an error.
This adjustment would seem to be something the the LaTeX to pdf
Conveter should control ???
Doug
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:23 PM Rasmus K. Rendsvig
<rends...@gmail.com <mailto:rends...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear Doug,
I am sorry if what you are describing is a more complex issue
then I what I hear it to be, but did you try changing the
zoom level in the pdf viewer itself?
Try e.g. pressing the Ctrl and the + keys simultaneously, or
holding Ctrl while scrolling up on your mouse wheel, or
clicking the field that says 56.7% and see if you can change
it there.
Kind regards,
Rasmus
On Wed, 29 Sep 2021, 18:07 Doug Martin, <martinr...@gmail.com
<mailto:martinr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
My pdf files compiled from LYX always have 56.7%
magnification, no matter whether I use
different document classes such as Article versus svmono,
and I want them larger by default,
e.g., 125%. I have not found a solution in the User
Guide, and wonder if anyone can explain
how to do this?
Doug Martin
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This sounds like a pdf viewer default setting. For instance in
SumatraPDF which I use, under Settings > Options I'm presented
with a small dialogue including the option Default zoom which not
only has things like Fit page, Fit width, Fit content, but a list
of default zoom levels (from 6400% down to 8.33%). For my aging
eyes I use 150% and that is what I get when I view (compile) a LyX
document.
Andrew
Andrew,
I had hoped some time ago that Acrobat Pro would do what your
SumatraPDF does, but no such luck.
The settings are there in Acrobat Pro that promise to do it, but they
don't work for a fresh pdf file.
I had pretty good support from Adobe on this problem about a year ago,
and the only solution provided
was that I print the pdf file to Adobe pdf with settings that I use
there. Aside from this being a hassle to do a zillion times a day, it
somehow removes the nice LYX created TOC from the pdf file.
FYI, I did a random sample of about 10 pdf files downloaded from
different places, and most of them have large magnifications of about
150 to 170, except for pdf files produced from LYX by colleagues and
they seem to always be around 56% or so.
I also sent this problem to Springer tech support (for a book we are
working on), which has been rather good, almost always providing a
solution for our book LYX which is an svmono class. I will forward to
the list anything useful that I get from Springer.
Thanks,
Doug
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Doug,
I don't have Acrobat Pro, just Acrobat Reader (an old version, on
Linux), so I don't know if this will help. The zoom level at which a
file should be opened is apparently a property of the file (in some
cases) and, when present, will override the default zoom setting in
Reader (and presumably in Acrobat Pro). In Reader, you can go to Edit >
Preferences... > Accessibility, and in the "Override Page Display" area
put a check in the box for "Always use Zoom Setting", which activates a
select box where you can pick your preferred zoom level.
If that fails, another possibility is to specify it in the command line
that opens the PDF file. With Acrobat Reader 9 on Linux, the command
would be
acroread /a "zoom=150=OpenActions" <file name>
and you could either create a script/batch file to open PDFs or, if the
issue is mainly when viewing a PDF from LyX, you could go (in LyX) to
Tools > Preferences... > File Handling > File Formats, select whichever
PDF output format you use (in my case, it's always "PDF (pdflatex)"),
set the "Viewer:" entry to "Custom" and in the box alongside that type
in the appropriate command line (like the one above) but without the
file name, then save your preferences.
Paul
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