Preview - Actual size is wrong

I use Preview to check images. Until Mavericks, showing a picture in actual size worked.
Now, when I open a picture in Maverick in actual size, the picture is enlarged (I have a retina display), I have to zoom out to see in in actual size.
What's wrong?

Tic_Tac wrote:
I use Preview to check images. Until Mavericks, showing a picture in actual size worked.
Now, when I open a picture in Maverick in actual size, the picture is enlarged (I have a retina display), I have to zoom out to see in in actual size.
What's wrong?
In Actual Size does it say 100% in the menu bar?
On my non-Retina display, Preview is working the same as it did pre-Mavericks. I wonder if this is an issue with Retina displays specifically?
Phil

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Hi
This is a long-standing minor irritation, but I would love to resolve it if possible. Preview opens an image and fits it to the screen size which is fine. If I then click Actual Size, it gives an image which is twice the actual size! I then have to do a single Zoom Out to get the real 'actual size' (which is still bigger than the fit-to-screen size).
This happens very often, but not every time (some images seem to work ok). Most images I work with are jpegs.
Anyone else notice this? Is there a solution?

What you report is normal.
An image at 150 dpi will display at half the size as one at 72 dpi or
72 dpi will display at twice the size of one that is 150 dpi (actually 144 is twice 72 but close enough)
_It is inverse._
I have already said this.
If one was to increase the ppi the 'actual size' would become smaller.
and the opposite also applies. They have an inverse relationship.
You are making the mistake of thinking that Preview is an image viewer.
I am NOT talking about the 'preview' that can be chosen when printing a document, I am talking about the APPLICATION Preview, the one with the dock icon that looks like a couple of photos with a jewellers loupe sitting on them, and with a menu bar that has Drawer, Rotate, Zoom
The Print Preview and the one in the Dock is one and the same. It is not an image viewer, that is just a feature. Preview is primarily a Printer Preview Utility. I have already said that. It can show documents and it can also show images.
Because it can show images you think it should be like an image viewer like Photoshop. It is a Print Preview application designed to show how an image will appear before it is sent to print.
The lower the DPI - the larger the actual size will be across your monitor's screen.
It works in DPI resolution to talk to the printer.
Photoshop works in absolute pixels X pixels to talk to the screen. They are doing two different things and you fail to see that. There is nothing wrong with your Preview application. Apple's Preview is the same thing as Photoshop's Print Preview.
Rather than lock on doggedly to your misconception, put it aside for a moment and take a fresh look.
I've done repeating myself.

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When you open a group of images, select them all and make Preview open them in Actual size (Why oh why is there not a setting for this - to open all images in actual size!?), why is it that when scrolling between them using gestures just makes Preview show the image resized yet again?
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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%.
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Would not the actual size be relative to the resolution set for the display since size is # of pixels x # of pixels?
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Small problem, the option to have images open as Actual Size in preview is gone, now every image I open I have to press CMD 0 to make it the normal size. Where is the option did I overlook it? Can I downgrade Preview to the 10.6 version?

I believe the option to default imgs to actual size is really gone, but once you open a series of images in Preview, focus the Preview's sidebar, select all items (cmd+a) and then press cmd+0 ... now all imgs will be viewed at Actual Size. Once you close Preview you'll have to do it again :-(

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Why does Preview open an image and display it in a size much smaller than the actual size?
The default is marked as "Actual Size" in the View menu, but it's much smaller than actual size. Nothing in Preferences changes this.
(I've never had a problem with this on my older Macs.)
Thank you!

Thanks, but that's not it I'm afraid. Here's what I mean. The image on the right is the actual size, as opened up in a web page. The image on the left is how Preview displays it when the file is opened. And hitting ⌘-0 doesn't change the size, only zooming does.

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I've just noticed some strangeness in Preview not loading in a full jpg resolution.
I have a .JPG photo that's 1920x1280.
My screen resolution is 1920x1080.
I double click the photo to load it into Preview. When viewed at Actual Size, there are no horizontal scroll bars (only a vertical one) and Preview's window is not from edge to edge of my monitor---it's perhaps about 80% my screen width.
How can that be?
Also, if I zoom even one level in Preview, the image appears to be pixelated. Conversely, if I load the image into photshop and CMD++ it till the title bar reads 100%, the image does in fact appear to be higher resolution/sharper (you can see more detail) and naturally has scroll bars since it can't be exactly as wide as the screen is. So it works normally at 100% pixel size in photoshop, giving me a 1:1 pixel match. But Preview doesn't. How can that be?
I assume one could test this by using a photo that's the same size as their screen resolution in order to check --- you should expect horizontal scroll bars, right?
What am I missing?

Close!
But that did lead me to find a checkbox at the bottom of the Images tab in the Preview Preferences called:
"Respect image DPI for 'Actual Size'".
You must uncheck that, and then it will load in all the pixels of your image! Cool.
Strange that this isn't the default tho... but I suppose people who just mindlessly snap high megapixel photos don't need to zoom in and see additional detail contained in their photos when using Preview---which would make Preview load faster that way.. But who knows.. Nice to have the option to change it back by unchecking that box.
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Thanks, but that's not it I'm afraid. Here's what I mean. The image on the right is the actual size, as opened up in a web page. The image on the left is how Preview displays it when the file is opened. And hitting ⌘-0 doesn't change the size, only zooming does.

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