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I have many PDFs on our site (embedded as uploaded PDFs with a link to file option in the text).  In Acrobat the PDFs have their Initial View size settings set to 200%.  But when opened in SQSP they only open at standard 100%.  All other web apps honor the PDF view settings.  Is this behavior exclusive to SQSP?  Thanks!

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On 11/1/2022 at 1:46 PM, roattw said:

In Acrobat the PDFs have their Initial View size settings set to 200%.  But when opened in SQSP they only open at standard 100%.

As far as I know, browsers ignore the Adobe setting and open at a zoom of their choosing. For example, Chrome typically opens the PDF at 100% but if you add #zoom=200 at the end of the link, it should open at 200%.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/53c1a2cce4b0e88e61f99b70/t/636bdfb7d3b96b67565211c8/1668014007371/AgileMD-Chest-Pain-Acut-Coronar-Syndrome-110922.pdf#zoom=200

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Thanks for the update.  That makes sense.  Seems like in v7 SQSP (or the browser at the time) seemed to honor it.  We just noticed it in the past year so the browser is probably culprit.  On first try, it looks like the browser, or HTML in general, doesnt allow query parameters and strips out the =   and # sings so renaming it:

Acute-Coronary-Syndrome-110922#zoom=200.pdf

becomes

Acute-Coronary-Syndrome-110922%23zoom%3D200.pdf

 

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Could you briefly explain please:

"I have many PDFs on our site (embedded as uploaded PDFs with a link to file option in the text)"

The pdf's are stored at your SQSP site?

I need to do something like this if possible.

Ideally I would like to publish directly the pdf files with enabled Hyperlinks option.

Thank you in advance!

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Correct.  When you make a hyperlink in SQSP, and set it to Dile (as opposed to web address), there is an option to Upload File and set the link to be a document link to that uploaded file.  The file management is less than ideal in SQSP though.  Im thinking about putting all prospective file links on another webserver where I can create logical folder organizations.  Finding a file once uploaded into the SQSP abyss is painful.  You can make an index for files storage, but thats just another convoluted step IMO.

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