InDesign CS4 window fills screen at open

Question

I just installed Adobe CS4 Design Premium version 6.0.3.  When I open a document using InDesign, the window nearly fills the 30" screen on my Apple HD Display.  I would like to adjust the window size so that it frames an 8.5"x11" portrait document with only a little margin all the way around.  When I do this and save the document, it always opens to the same, large window.  It would be much more efficient if I could set the window size to the desired dimensions so that it would open in that configuration and not in the large version.  I can't seem to make that happen.  Any ideas?  Thanks for any help you can give.  I'm running 10.5.7 on a Mac Pro (Early 2008) with 2GB RAM and plenty of hard drive space.

Answer 1

Not sure how this will come across, but here is the Javascript (it works in CS3) - with my apologies to the author, whose name I have lost:
//DESCRIPTION: Resets active window size or uses front window to set default size.
// Check for WindowDefault.txt; if present use it to set front window
// if not, use front window to set it after checking with user.
myPath = app.activeScript;
myParts = myPath.toString().split("/");
myParts[(myParts.length - 1)] =  "WindowDefault" + app.version.slice(0,1) + ".txt";
myNewPath = myParts.join("/");
mySettingsFile = File(myNewPath);
// Before proceeding, check that there is a front window
// If not, offer user the chance to delete the current settings
if (app.windows.length < 1) {
beep();
if (confirm("No window is open; would you like to delete the settings file?")) {
  // User said yes; check that it exists
  if(mySettingsFile.exists) {
   mySettingsFile.remove();
} else {
if (mySettingsFile.open("r")) {
  savedBounds = mySettingsFile.read();
  mySettingsFile.close();
  myBounds = savedBounds.split(",");
  for (i = 0; i<myBounds.length; i++) {
   myBounds[i] = Number(myBounds[i]);
  app.windows[0].bounds = myBounds;
} else {
  beep();
  if (confirm("Settings file is missing. Use current front window to set default?")) {
   // User said: go to it.
   new File(mySettingsFile);
   mySettingsFile.open("w");
   mySettingsFile.write(app.windows[0].bounds);
   mySettingsFile.close();