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• • June 12, 2012 at 5:39 am #62396
    Kees Valkering

    Member

    Is there a way to center the document without chancing the zoom level?

  • June 14, 2012 at 7:28 pm #62422
    mac grunt

    Member

    G'day

    Wouldn't that be cool? — I've not seen a way to do it

    But… you could have a script do it for you

    tell application “Adobe InDesign CS5.5”
    tell layout window 1 of document 1
    set theZoom to zoom percentage
    zoom given show pasteboard
    set zoom percentage to theZoom
    end tell
    end tell

    Copy that into Script Editor (Applications > Applescript)
    Change first line to your version of InDesign
    Save it as a script to Applications > InDesign > Scripts > Scripts Panel
    Open Scripts Panel in InDesign (Window > Utilities)
    Double click to run it

    If you have nothing selected it will centre the page
    If you DO have something selected, it will centre on that

    You could even assign a keyboard shortcut to run the script for you

    m.

  • June 14, 2012 at 7:30 pm #62423
    mac grunt

    Member

    Sorry — forgot to say…

    Make sure you retype those quote marks (“) — sometimes they get copied as curly quotes and that will break the script.

    m.

  • June 18, 2012 at 12:16 am #62448
    Kees Valkering

    Member

    Great! Thank you very much.

    I assign the shortcut 'C' and it works very well.

  • June 9, 2022 at 10:52 am #14366622
    Tobias Wantzen

    Participant

    Sorry for adding to an old thread, but I needed this either, and transformed it to ExendScript, which will work on Mac and Windows:

    
    if( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
        var theWindow = app.activeDocument.layoutWindows[0],
            theZoom = theWindow.zoomPercentage;
        theWindow.zoom(ZoomOptions.SHOW_PASTEBOARD);
        theWindow.zoomPercentage = theZoom;
    }
    

    • June 10, 2022 at 9:43 am #14366649
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Thank you, Tobias!!

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