Magnification of pdf File Created by LYX

[Doug Martin]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 1:24 PM Andrew Parsloe <ajparsloe at 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 <rendsvig at 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, <martinrd3d at 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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>>
>
> --
> R. Douglas Martin
> Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
> University of Washington
>
> 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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R. Douglas Martin
Professor Emeritus in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
University of Washington
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