Jem,
Then you are better set up than I'd guessed! :-)
Maybe you would want to assign a key command or macro to set the display to Show Entire Page?
Or is it sufficient to just be aware that setting is there? It depends on how you work, of course.
Or maybe a macro to page up/down, but first setting the view to Show Entire Page? Then you might want a handy way to switch to the previous view mode, or some favorite?
It can get way to complex for most of us to sort out the best way to use so much flexibility... and figuring out just how flexible things are is not trivial. :-)
Ben
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On 2012 Oct 14 Sun, at 1:21 pm, jem cabanes wrote:
Hi Ben,
What I wanted --and want-- is to go from one page to next --or previous. Seing the full page each time. Not just the beginning or some specific place of the page.
And yes, when your page is zoomed to Show Entire Page, then ctrl+arrow up or down works beautifully. Only it seems that this shortcut calls Mission Control up, so I had to turn it off first.
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On 2012 Oct 14 Sun, at 6:39 am, jem cabanes wrote:
Hi, Nobumi,
And thank you heartily for the trouble you underwent to make the macro. Yet, it just jumps right at the very beginning of he following page, just one line or two (it doesn't present a full view of the page). Besides, it only works downwards, not upwards.
Many thanks, again.
jem cabanes
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Hi Jem & all,
Present a full view of the page? Was that part of the objective?
There is of course a built-in option for that:
View—> Zoom—> Show Entire Page
And when that view is in force, simple page up and down works beautifully.
But I supposed you wanted a way to go to a certain page in a more zoomed-in view, I have not investigated the macro, but it seems it partially does (upon fixing page up) if you were satisfied with being taken to the top of each page, which is pretty standard for designating a page...
So I'm left thinking you actually desired a way to scroll to the same position on the next/prev page? So that if you are looking at the bottom or center of a page, you could move either direction to be viewing the same portion of each page, regardless of how much of the page may be showing?
I really wish Apple would have addressed that a decade ago, but of course it's up to the rest of us now! :-)
I had not previously realized that control-up/down worked to scroll a screen. It truly would be nice if they had one (say option-control-up/down) to scroll a full page, and in the way that option right/left moves the cursor to the nearest side of each word depending on the direction, what if the direction of scrolling a page first showed the top or bottom of said page? I use that method to get to the desired side of words all the time. That is, to get to the left boundary of a target word, I hit option-right till I come to the right boundary of the target word, and then while still holding the option key, press the left arrow key once. :-)
Ben Andrus
in drought-ridden Montana, still trying to dodge wild fire smoke.
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