Zoom to Fit button on Preview Toolbar

When reading documents with Mac OS X’s Preview, one of my first move is to set the zooming to fit the window width, however, Preview doesn’t have neither a shortcut nor a button on its toolbar for this function. Let’s make one!

If you right click on the toolbar, there is an option to customize it. However, there is no icon/button available for the Zoom to Fit function, only for Zoom In/Out, and Actual Size. How come that one of the most useful feature is not available here? The key is to create a keyboard shortcut for it and then the icon for it will “magically” appear in the customize menu.

Open Preferences, head to Keyboard, select Keyboard Shortcuts. Click the “+” icon in the middle to add a new keyboard shortcut. Select Preview as the desired application and enter “Zoom to Fit” in the Menu Title field. Select a key combination for it as well (I chose ⌘9 - it’s next to ⌘0 which is the shortcut for Actual Size) and close the panel.

Now go back to Preview, right click on the toolbar, and select Customize Toolbar. The Zoom to Fit icon will be right there, ready to be dropped onto your toolbar.

You’re welcome! :)