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JeffN3
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Window does not open to full screen???

Apr 20, 2012 7:06 AM

This one has me stumped. I recently installed / upgraded to CS5.1, set up all my preferences, keyboard shortcuts, presets, plugins. All worked fine, day in - day out,  for the last three weeks.

About three days ago this anomaly appeared...

 

When I zoom in (cmd +/), the window will resize, but only part way. The window will move over flush right on the monitor, but leave about one inch of space between the window and the left side of the monitor, and increase in size until it fits aprox 2/3rds of the monitor / screen. It stops enlarging and leaves about 3 inches of space between the window and the bottom of the screen. At that point I get scroll bars. So I end up with a much smaller window to work in.

I can grab the bottom right corner of the window, pull it open to fill the screen, but as soon as I go to zoom in or out, the window jumps back to the smaller size with the gap on the left side and bottom.

It's driving me crazy!! having to work in such a small window.

 

Option bar is "Standard Screen Mode"

All my pallets are on a separate monitor, so nothing else is on my main monitor that would limit the size of my window as I zoom in.

My preferences are set to:

• Zoom Resizes Windows

• Enable Flick Panning (works fine)

• Animated Zoom

OS 10.5x

10GB ram

 

I don't know if I inadvertently changed something to cause this. So I'm hoping someone here can solve this issue.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

JeffN

749 Views   10 Replies   Latest reply: Curt Y, Apr 24, 2012 5:35 PM
 
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  • Grant H
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    1. Grant H,
    Apr 20, 2012 7:15 AM   in reply to JeffN3
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    main menu> window> check application frame.

     

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    2. JeffN3,
    Apr 20, 2012 7:40 AM   in reply to Grant H
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    Grant,

     

    Thanks for the help. That suggestion solves part of the problem, Zoom enlarges the window to fill the screen before I get the scroll bars -  great!!, but when I hit Cmd 0 to size window and image to fit screen I get a window that fits the screen, but the image in the window is small with gray all around. See attached screen shot.

    PS.jpg

    All my settings are the same as my original post, except I went as you suggested, Menu > window > application frame

     

    JeffN

     
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    3. JeffN3,
    Apr 20, 2012 8:10 AM   in reply to JeffN3
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    Grant,

    upon further investigation, the "application frame" yields other unwanted effects.

    That setting gives me tabbed viewing (which I don't want), even though I have that turned off in preferences. When I open multiple documents they open not as individual windows, but as a tab in the one open window. When I go into the options bar and set the "arrange documents" to "float in windows", I get the individual windows, but then I get the same problem of the windows not zooming to the full screen, as stated in my original posting.

     

    Also, just saw that even with the "application frame" checked, when I open a smart object layer, that window still has the same zoom issue.

     

    So the problem still exists.

     

    Any other ideas?

     

    fyi: here is a screen capture of the original screen / zoom issue.

    You can see the gray space on the left and bottom. The scroll bars are showing and the window will not get any larger.

     

    PS problem.jpg

     

    Thanks JeffN

     

    Message was edited by: JeffN3

     
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    4. JeffN3,
    Apr 23, 2012 6:33 AM   in reply to JeffN3
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    Shouldn't I be able to zoom in (cmd +) and have the window increase in size until it fills the screen top to bottom, side to side (excluding the menu & options bar); without using "tabbed viewing"?

    If yes, which beleive is the case, then there is something preventing this, which I need help to trouble shoot. Screen shots in previous post shows what I'm getting.

     
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    5. Lundberg02,
    Apr 23, 2012 3:03 PM   in reply to JeffN3
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    You're in some other screen mode that resembles Photoshop Elements, with a kind of gallery underneath.

     
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    6. JeffN3,
    Apr 24, 2012 7:41 AM   in reply to Lundberg02
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    Lundberg02

    I see what your saying, but I don't know why...

    here are my settings:

     

    Option bar is "Standard Screen Mode"

    All my pallets are on a separate monitor, so nothing else is on my main monitor that would limit the size of my window as I zoom in.

    My preferences are set to:

    • Zoom Resizes Windows

    • Enable Flick Panning (works fine)

    • Animated Zoom

     

    I don't know why I'm having this problem, nor how to solve it. "It's driving me nuts" because it slows down my workflow, efficiency.

     
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  • Lundberg02
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    7. Lundberg02,
    Apr 24, 2012 1:53 PM   in reply to JeffN3
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    Have you tried resetting your prefs at launch?

     
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    8. JeffN3,
    Apr 24, 2012 2:00 PM   in reply to Lundberg02
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    no,

    question tho..

    if I do that will I have to reset up all my keyboard shortcuts, pallet settings, etc?

     

    and is that done by launching PS and holding down what key?

     
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    9. Lundberg02,
    Apr 24, 2012 2:19 PM   in reply to JeffN3
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    Yes.  I don't remember the keys, I've never needed to do it in six versions of PS from 3.0 on.

     
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  • Curt Y
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    10. Curt Y,
    Apr 24, 2012 5:35 PM   in reply to Lundberg02
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    To reset you have to hold down the Ctrl + Alt + Shift keys.  Should get a reset window if done fast enough.

     
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