Scanning problem.

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Peter Jason
Aug 5, 2006
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I have a scanner for business documents which
opens Photoshop 5.5 automatically.

But the first scan shown on Photoshop is
displayed at 50% and all subsequent ones at
33.3%.

How can I make them all display at 33.3% or
at least some other constant size?

Please help.
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nomail
Aug 5, 2006
Peter Jason wrote:

I have a scanner for business documents which
opens Photoshop 5.5 automatically.

But the first scan shown on Photoshop is
displayed at 50% and all subsequent ones at
33.3%.

How can I make them all display at 33.3% or
at least some other constant size?

Photoshop displays the images so that it fits on screen, by choosing from a limited set of sizes (25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 100%, nothing in between). You cannot change that. Photoshop also ’tiles’ windows if it opens more than one document, so the windows of the subsequent scans must be slightly smaller because they are shifted to the right a bit. That is the reason why they open at 33%; that 50% is apparently a tight fit. There is nothing you can do about it in Photoshop 5.5.

—
Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl
PJ
Peter Jason
Aug 6, 2006
"Johan W. Elzenga"
wrote in message
Peter Jason wrote:

I have a scanner for business documents
which
opens Photoshop 5.5 automatically.

But the first scan shown on Photoshop is
displayed at 50% and all subsequent ones
at
33.3%.

How can I make them all display at 33.3%
or
at least some other constant size?

Photoshop displays the images so that it
fits on screen, by choosing
from a limited set of sizes (25%, 33%, 50%,
66%, 100%, nothing in
between). You cannot change that. Photoshop
also ’tiles’ windows if it
opens more than one document, so the
windows of the subsequent scans
must be slightly smaller because they are
shifted to the right a bit.
That is the reason why they open at 33%;
that 50% is apparently a tight
fit. There is nothing you can do about it
in Photoshop 5.5.

—
Johan W. Elzenga
johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl
Editor / Photographer
http://www.johanfoto.nl

Thank you.
Yet it did before my HHD crash. I thought a
setting might have disappeared.
MR
Mike Russell
Aug 6, 2006
Peter Jason wrote:
I have a scanner for business documents which opens Photoshop 5.5 automatically. <

But the first scan shown on Photoshop is displayed at 50% and all subsequent ones at 33.3%. <

How can I make them all display at 33.3% or at least some other constant size? <

Here are a couple of ideas.

Try moving the tool palette a few pixels away from the edge of the screen. The initial zoom and positioning of the image may be affected by the location of the tool palette.

This could also be a startup issue, where the first window is zoomed to a larger size because initialization is still in progress, and Photoshop things there is more space available. Try starting Photoshop before your first scan and see if that causes the images to be zoomed to the same size. —

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/
PJ
Peter Jason
Aug 7, 2006
"Mike Russell"
wrote
in message
Peter Jason wrote:
I have a scanner for business documents
which opens Photoshop 5.5 automatically. <

But the first scan shown on Photoshop is
displayed at 50% and all subsequent ones
at 33.3%. <

How can I make them all display at 33.3%
or at least some other constant size? <

Here are a couple of ideas.

Try moving the tool palette a few pixels
away from the edge of the screen. The
initial zoom and positioning of the image
may be affected by the location of the tool
palette.

This could also be a startup issue, where
the first window is zoomed to a larger size
because initialization is still in
progress, and Photoshop things there is
more space available. Try starting
Photoshop before your first scan and see if
that causes the images to be zoomed to the
same size.
—

Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

Thank you very much. Starting PS first has
fixed it!
Regards

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