Re: Zoom - How to get/set in Photoshop CS?
Re: Zoom - How to get/set in Photoshop CS?
- Subject: Re: Zoom - How to get/set in Photoshop CS?
- From: Michael Cytrynowicz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 13:02:22 +0100
Hi kai,
Thanks again. I am replying directly to you, cc the list.
Looks like we're both GMT?
The "Print Size" unfortunately doesn't work. I measured (with a good ruler)
the apparent dimensions of onscreen photos, and got the following:
Consistently, and whatever the image dpi, Photoshop will show a "Print Size"
image which is 25% smaller along the linear dimensions. E.g., a (true) 25 cm
wide photo will measure onscreen 18.73 cm.
Therefore, if I want to view an onscreen image at its print size (under my
screen conditions) I will have to "grow" the magnification accordingly.
For 72 dpi, that means magnification 133% (approx.)
And,
Image dpi - PS "Print Size" mag as % - corrected screen mag as %
---------------------------------------------------------
144 - 50 - 66.7
288 - 25 - 33.4
300 - 24 - 32.0
The code I need could simply set the screen magnification to "Print Size"
THEN make it 25% larger.
>From your zoom range,
>This technique allows access to the available zoom range here: 0.05%,
>0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%, 0.7%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, 3%, 4%, 5%, 6.25%,
>8.33%, 12.5%, 16.67%, 25%, 33.33%, 50%, 66.67%, 100%, 200%, 300%, 400%,
>500%, 600%, 700%, 800%, 1200% & 1600%.
I realice I could figure out how many steps to "click" - but it would only
work for dpi's that are a multiple (or fraction) of 72.
In the table above, for example, the correct life-size magnification for a
300dpi print is 32%, which is not in the step sequence.
It surprises me, though, that such a simple thing apparently, can't be done
by a one line of code in photoshop...
Tx,
Mike C
> On Sunday, May 22, 2005, at 11:11 am, Michael Cytrynowicz wrote:
>
>> Hi list and kai (kai, thanks again!),
>>
>> I should have been more precise. Kai's solutions work for Photoshop's
>> preset
>> magnifications (e.g., fit in window, 100%), or for pre-set steps 8as
>> kai has
>> indicated at the bottom of his reply).
>>
>> What I need to do, however, is to set the zoom magnification to,
>> precisely,
>> 116.3%
>>
>> And that is because at this mag, and for my screen resolution, an 8x10
>> image
>> to be printed measures, in the screen, exactly 8x10.
>>
>> That is, in terms of size at least, it is wysiwyg.
>
> For the record, I just posted an off-list reply to Mike at almost the
> same time he posted the above message (presumably thinking I wasn't
> here). Here's the gist of it, FWIW...
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: kai <email@hidden>
>> Date: Sun May 22, 2005 11:07:07 am Europe/London
>> To: Michael Cytrynowicz <email@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: Zoom - How to get/set in Photoshop CS?
>>
>> On Sunday, May 22, 2005, at 10:09 am, Michael Cytrynowicz wrote:
>>
>>> The trouble is (and I see that I probably did not express myself very
>>> precisley...) that I want to set the value to, precisely, 116.3%
>>
>> I wondered if that might be what you were after but, since you also
>> mentioned zooming in and out, I kinda hoped that the suggestions might
>> be of some use. Unfortunately, there's no way that I know of to set a
>> specific zoom size. However...
>>
>>> At that magnification a photo to be printed has the same screen size
>>> as the
>>> final printout (for the screen res I am using)
>>
>> In that case, it's possible that the "Print Size" option will do the
>> trick for you - since that zooms to the actual print size, according
>> to screen and document resolutions. There's no keystroke option for
>> that here, although it's available via the "View" Menu. (I'm hoping
>> that CS's menu options are fundamentally similar.)
>>
>> Try something like this, which works fine here:
>>
>> ----------------
>>
>> tell application "System Events" to tell process "Adobe Photoshop 7.0"
>> -- change name
>> set frontmost to true
>> click menu item "Print Size" of menu "View" of menu bar 1
>> end tell
>>
>> ----------------
>
> ---
> kai
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