[pdftex] Acrobat reader presets.

[Hans Hagen]

At 17:42 23/04/2003 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
>On Wednesday 23 April 2003 09:30 am, Andreas Matthias wrote:
> > John Culleton wrote:
> > > Yesterday I received a pdf from a publisher. When called up in Acrobat
> > > Reader the document automatically come up in "actual size."
> > >
> > > I know how to make a document come up in "FullScreen" mode, using
> > > either pdftex or Context. How do I make it come up as "actual size"?
> >
> > \usepackage{hyperref}
> > \hypersetup{pdfstartview={XYZ 0 845 1}}
> >
> > Since you are using plain TeX you should have no problem
> > to find and extract the desired code from hyperref (hpdftex.def).
> >
> > Ciao
> > Andreas
>
>As it happens, I am not using plain tex but pdftex or Context,
>depending on the task. Plain tex has no provision for pdf
>insertions. The current task is a Context project. But my question
>relates to pdftex and not the Context macro package. Hence I asked
>it here.
>
>The Pdftex Manual describes how to set four different page modes but
>does not cover the question I asked.
>
>Following your suggestion I did discover an apparent fix:
>
>\pdfcatalog{/OpenAction /Fit}
>
>...but surely there is a more direct method to arrive at this
>information other than analyzing LaTeX macros?

it's a frequently asked  one-liner on the context list, so i'll post it 
there -)

Hans
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