At Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:44:27 -0500 "Irene Starr" <starr at langlab.umass.edu> wrote: > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > Content-Language: en-us > > > IÂm working on a web page that has links to several PDF documents. The > audience is people who are less familiar with technology. > > > > IÂd like the pdfÂs to always open with the Âzoom setting at 100%, so people > donÂt have to adjust the zoom on their computer. Is there a way I can do > that? I don't think so. It is highly dependent on the PDF viewing application (there are *several*) and whether or not the user has a PDF viewer with a browser plugin. It also depends on the browser (again there are several). > > > > If the above is impossible, I could add a brief comment about changing the % > zoom of the document for a Windows computer. Is pdf similar for the Mac? > Again this depends on the PDF viewing application and/or the web browser. It also depends on the user's preferences settings and the user's screen size and resolution. Also it is really a bad idea to even attempt to 'control' (even to be helpful) the user's display. The best you can do is make suggestions. > > > > > Thanks, > > Irene Starr > > > > Keyboard Help: www.starr.net/kbh (how to do © ® à é ü ç ¡ ¿etc) > > > > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -- Robert Heller -- Get the Deepwoods Software FireFox Toolbar! Deepwoods Software -- Linux Installation and Administration http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Web Hosting, with CGI and Database heller at deepsoft.com -- Contract Programming: C/C++, Tcl/Tk