Adobe Reader: Change Default Zoom Setting

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1. please make 175% zoom possible!!!!!!!!!

2. Thank you so much for the tip! I’ve been dealing with Acrobat defaulting to 126% page size and it was so annoying. A very easy fix following your instructions!

3. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro, so I don’t know what may be special to that software, but I was having this same issue and neither of the suggestions (Accessibility or Page Display) would fix it. Then I found the problem under the Bookmarks. When I right-clicked on each item in the bookmark list, selected “properties” and then clicked on the “Actions” tab, I could edit the Zoom level for each Bookmark (where they were all set at the Zoom level that was driving me crazy). I clicked on “Edit”, changed the Zoom level, and then said “OK” (twice). I had to save the document to make sure it would retain the settings when I next opened the document. I think the issue was actually buried in a Java Script action that was overriding everything else – at least this is what worked for me. It was a pain because I had to make the change with every single bookmark, which in my case was many, but it fixed it so I can finally stop pulling out my hair.

4. definitely a bug. i followed the instructions, but it didn’t work. then i went back, change page layout to single page, then went to accessibility, unchecked “always use page layout style” and then hit ok, now my documents open 100% like i want. Adobe is annoying as F(*& i hate it.

5. I am always sent a message from Adobe while I am mid way in my Zoom sessions and I am usually requested to perform an update it happened again just and I am unable to do the update it as the meeting is mid way!
   Could you kindly initiate the request timely enough when a session is not on!
   Moreover, I am not sure how to do it
   Please help!

6. Is there a setting that sets WHERE on the screen I want the document to open? I have zoom/accessibility settings down, but when I open multiple PDFs they open higher and higher up on the screen until the file/tools menus end up off screen (I’m using remote software to access another computer and cannot see full screen).
   How do I get PDFs to open up in the SAME place each time?

7. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

8. This does not work for me. However, I found the following solution, which works for me, from https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2379782

   File > Properties > Initial View > Magnification > (change the zoom to your preference)

9. Thanks for the tip!

10. Nice one!
    Thanks very much – worked perfectly for Reader DC, which for some reason always opened PDF files at 180%.

11. This doesn’t work at all! No matter what settings I choose, I ALWAYS get full page display when I move to another section of the document, even though my preferences are set to Fit Width. I have set the Default Layout and Zoom to Single Page and Fit Width and under Accessibility I set Always use use Page Layout Style Single Page and Always use Zoom Setting Fit Width. EVERY TIME I move to a new section of the document, the Zoom changes to full page. EVERY TIME!

12. This used to work for me but not it doesn’t anymore. Incredibly frustrating

13. Thanks from yet another zoom-challenged soul – me !
    You have saved me hours of frustration with your tip here.

14. This solution is only working on some of my documents and I have both the accessibility and page layout settings set to open automatically at 125%. One document always opens at that size, while another does not (it’s been opening at 43% instead).

15. THANK YOU! I am so tired of my documents opening at 196% (such an odd #!) I knew there had to be a way to do this!

16. Finally someone explained the accessibility part, people just pointed out the obvious and finished the article, but this one helped a lot. Fit to width with single page continuous is quite OK.

17. Finally! Was able to easily adjust the default zoom setting. Thank you!

18. Thanks Marcello – setting accessibility –> always use zoom setting to 100% it then deselecting the box work has worked. I wasted an hour fixing this. I’ve got so fed up with it over the years.

    Abode needs to fix Reader so that what is obviously a bug gets fixed.

19. This is SO ANNOYING, expecially when you spend your day opening and processing hundreds of files!
    I think I tried everything and nothing will work. HELP!!!

20. This is a well known issue with Adobe Reader that they haven’t fixed in years.
    If you set accesibility zoom to “page height” it always works, but if you set it to a specific zoom it won’t.
    A bizarre solution is, after having chosen the desired zoom setting and confirmed that it’s not doing it, to DE-SELECT the checkbox, as Denis said earlier.
    It does the trick for me.

21. I am interested in having the print option default to landscape, and 2-sided. Does anyone know how to do that?

22. Mursel and Obi, try de-selecting the “Always use zoom setting” checkbox in the Accessibility tab and it should default to whatever you have selected on the “Page Display” setting.

23. I tried all those settings but acrobat reader ignores all of them. It opens the pdf file with a zoom level of 63,8%
    But i want it to open the document with a 125% zoom level… It don’t work… :(

24. I tried setting both Page Display and Accessibility to Single Page Continuous and 100%. It does not work. My pdf files still launch at full blast!

25. @Hayo Schmidt

    Thank you.

26. Nothing I do has any effect. I want to see 2 pages up, but no matter which Preference settings I use, it just does it’s own thing.

    WTF – Why have settings that the software ignores?

    Needing to edit the registry to fix this long-standing problem is so lame. Just make it work already.

27. Finally I found the solution. Each document is set to be open at a particular zoom irrespective of what reader settings you keep. So you open the document, go to FILE > PROPERTIES > INITIAL VIEW > MAGNIFICATION > OK!

    Voila :)

28. Not working for me. I set 150 and one pdf file opens and is 125%. Few others opened and were at 49.7%. My last update from Adobe was March 21 2018.
    This used to work. I could live with 125% if I had to but 50% is a bit much for my lousy eyesight.

29. Perfect. Thanks!

30. It works. thank you.

31. The only thing that helped was the registry edit. change the value from 1 to 0. Nothing else worked. All my docs were opening at 281% no matter what zoom settings per this article, were set to. Thanks to Hayo Schmidt!

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Access\bOverrideZoom from 1 to 0

32. I was having the same problems. After I changed the page display and accessibility settings after I closed and reopened the PDF it reverted back to the previous default size, but in the page display and accessibility setting where still what I changed them to. What I did to fix this was after I changed them to what I like from the toolbar when to file>save as>PDF and replaced it. That should fix your problem

33. I have tried doing both of the steps listed, and it keeps returning to the old settings, Automatic in the page display default, and in the accessibility one I can not get it to change from 75% it always changes back so all the pdf’s keep opening up in 75% and that is too big.

34. If this was Reddit I’d upvote this. This was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.

35. @HAYO SCHMIDT

    Thanks for your solution.

36. For Acrobat Reader DC 2015.020 (Windows) the following applies.
    Changing the settings as described above does not change anything, unless…
    – You set the page layout to Two Pages.
    or
    – You fiddle once again in the registry. (Stop Acrobat Reader). Set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\DC\Access\bOverrideZoom from 1 to 0. Et voilà.

    Maybe there is also a check mark to set for that. I did not find any matching.

37. I have changed both the Page Display and the Accessibility twice. The changes were saved okay, but I still have problems with my pdf files – most of them open at 174%, a few open at 178%!!! What can I do to correct this problem permanently?? Thanks for your help!

38. I’ve tried that and it’s still not working for me. The Default Zoom on page display always reverts back to “Automatic”, and the setting in Accessibility does stick, but doesn’t appear to actually do anything.

39. Perfect Thanks!

40. Thank you, it worked for me, and I had checked quite a few sites before finding yours.
    They all seemed to sop at step 4. Under the “Default Layout and Zoom” area, change the “Zoom” dropdown menu to a desired setting. That wasn’t working for me because my ‘Accessibility’ wasn’t sett to 100%.
    Pictures helped too.

41. Thank you. My problem is now solved.

42. I use Adobe Reader X and EVERY .pdf file opens up at 198%!! I can change my default zoom from ‘automatic’ to 100%, and also the accessibility to ‘always use zoom setting of 100%’, but it doesn’t stick. Every time I close the reader, it reverts back to “automatic” and still opens everything at 198%. How do you make the preferences stick? There is no apply button, and ‘okay’ doesn’t seem to get it done.

43. I use Adobe XPro. I have tried both of these as well. Also found an option under Edit, Preferences, Page display, which i tried changing in tandem with the other two. Nothing has worked.

    I’m wondering if it isn’t working when bookmarks are in the document?

44. I have done both of these but what has now happened is that some files open 100% (Which is what I want), some files now open about 66% (Was at 49%) and some files still open at 49%. Then there is another funny in that some files open 100% but in half a second go to 49%. I have also opened a particular file and it is at 66% but when opening it again within a minute it goes to 49% again!
    Any other ideas – please and thank you

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