Thank you, Taco : it has /an/ effect, but sadly not the desired one (the page opens shewing the first part of the headline filling much of the screen, so it is several tens of times too large). I will play the example and see if I can get it to converge on what I need ... ** Phil. -------- Taco Hoekwater wrote:

Philip TAYLOR wrote:

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Dear Colleagues -- I am being driven to distraction by my inability to persuade PdfTeX to set the default "Document open" option to "Fit Visible". I know that Hyperref can accomplish this, but I am working in TeX, not LaTeX. I assume that an appropriate incantation to \pdfliteral will be all that is required, but so far Google has failed to throw up any useful hints as to what to pass to \pdfliteral to accomplish this. Your help will be much appreciated.

From the context mailing list:

\pdfcatalog{ /PageLayout /SinglePage % /PageMode /UseNone % /OpenAction [0 /FitBH 900] % }

Best wishes, Taco