[ILUG] LaTeX hyperref pdfstartview(?) "Fit Width" - how?

[Daren Nestor]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Brian Foster wrote:

> Using latex (or pdflatex):
>
>    pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>
> with the hyperref package:
>
>    2007/02/07 v6.75r Hypertext links for LaTeX
>
> (both from the TeX Live 2007 DVD), how do I arrange
> for a default acroread(1) viewing size of “Fit Width”?
> Or of “Fit Visible”?
>
> The PDFs nominally generated end up as “Fit Page”,
> which is unreadable, so the readers/users have to
> click  |View| → |Fit Width|  (or similar; e.g.,
> Ctrl-2).  I consider this both annoying and silly.
>
> The hyperref doc mentions the package option
> “pdfstartview” with a default value of “Fit”,
> but does not list other possible values (albeit
> there is an incomprehensible example of “FitBH”,
> whatever that is!).  Obvious guesses such as
> “FitWidth” and “Width” just cause acroread v7.0
> to pop up an error saying the guess is unknown.
>
> That incomprehensible example (see §4.2, “Utility
> Macros”, in the hyperref manual) sort-of seems to
> do what I want (on quick tests), but since I'm
> uncertain what it really is doing, I'm reluctant
> to use it ....  ;-\

The options are:

The following are possible values for the pdfview and pdfstartview parameters.

XYZ 	left top zoom 	Sets a coordinate and a zoom factor. If any
 			one is null, the source link value is used. null
 			null null will give the same values as the current
 			page.
Fit 			Fits the page to the window.
FitH 	top 		Fits the width of the page to the window.
FitV 	left 		Fits the height of the page to the window.
FitR 	left bottom	Fits the rectangle specified by the four
 	right top 	coordinates to the window.
FitB 			Fits the page bounding box to the window.
FitBH 	top 		Fits the width of the page bounding box to
 			the window.
FitBV 	left 		Fits the height of the page bounding box to
 			the window.

from the manual that comes with the hyperref package (Section 3.6 page 9 
middle of the page).

--
Daren Nestor