OK, hitting Enter after changing the value did fix things. (But an unexpected necessity!)
> On 29 Apr2021, at 4:30 PM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It may be that you did not commit the new value, try to do that by hitting > Enter or Tab before OK. It should of course be committed automatically, I’ll > fix that for the next release. BTW, you can also select the default settings > from an open document using the last item in the PDF menu, and you don’t need > to relaunch for it to apply. > > Christiaan > >> On 29 Apr 2021, at 20:50, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com >> <mailto:murrayeisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Does not work for me! >> >> I changed the General > Normal to 200%, closed that Preferences dialog, quit >> Skim, reopened it. Yet when I then open a pdf in Skim, it reverts to the >> usual too-small magnification (for me) instead of the greater magnification >> I thought I had selected. >> >> This is in Skim 1.6.3 under macOS Big Sur 11.3. >> >> >>> On 29 Apr2021, at 11:36 AM, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Go to the General Preferences, and select Normal under “Initial PDF view >>> settings for:”. There you can select the initial view settings, including >>> the scale. >>> >>> Christiaan >>> >>>> On 29 Apr 2021, at 17:24, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenb...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:murrayeisenb...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> For my main use of Skim, I always need the opened pdf to be magnified 2 >>>> levels from the default. >>>> >>>> Is there some way to set a preference to make this the default? Or some >>>> command-line parameter I can use when opening Skim to force that greater >>>> magnification? >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> >>>> 503 King Farm Blvd #101 >>>> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 >> >> --- >> Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com >> <mailto:murrayeisenb...@gmail.com> >> 503 King Farm Blvd #101 >> Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334 > > _______________________________________________ > Skim-app-users mailing list > Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users > <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users> --- Murray Eisenberg murrayeisenb...@gmail.com 503 King Farm Blvd #101 Rockville, MD 20850-6667 Mobile (413)-427-5334
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