PDF not showing at actual size

I have a website mockup design (72dpi) created in Fireworks. I often provid these for client review as PDFs. However, recently, the PDFs are not displaying properly.
I've tried various ways of creating the PDFs: place Fireworks png in InDesign, open PNG in Photoshop, print to PDF from FW...
When I open these PDFs at 100% they are oversized. Why aren't they displaying at proper size? It is a problem for a lot of biz Acrobat users as they don't know the proper size to display the mockup to see them properly.
Seems like such a simple thing, but I cannot determine the resolution. I simply want the PDF to display at actual size for screen viewing, 100%. Normally, it's easier to create PDF then to publish mockup designs to the web wrapped in web pages.
Any enlightenment is appreciated.

squidz wrote:
Interesting...I don't recall seeing that pref in the past. I'm using v8.1.6 and it is there. "System setting" is 99 px/inch. And here all these years I thought my Macs were 72 px/inch but Acrobat believes it to be 99. Which also explains why at 75% they looked closer to actual size.
I changed that setting to 72 and it display perfectly. But, as you said, that setting on someone else's system is beyond my control.
Seems pretty screwy that Acrobat itself drives how a user sees a document rather then the document delivering it's actual dims/resolution. I'm simply surprised that I've not known this all this time.
It depends upon the resolution of the monitor used and the Graphics Card used in your system.
Usually it would be 72. but for example above in the Screen shot I showed my PowerBook 17" does infact use 98DPI.
I don't know whether you noticed the drop down box for Zoom level All I have shown is fit to Page but there is also fit to width along with percentages going all the way up to 200%.
If you want you can set back to 99 and change the zoom level you normally see when openning a file.

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