Hi, I try to use Presentation mode in Apple Preview to be able to read a PDF book in a comfortable mode (when one sees the whole page on the screen). However, some extremely smart guy from Apple decided that there must be margins around the document in this mode. The margins are at least half-centimeter from both the top and the bottom of the screen.
Does anyone know if I can remove these margins somehow?
Any pre-existing margins on the PDF will be honored in the View menu > Slideshow mode. As there is no means to remove these document margins in a normal Preview PDF view, they aren't removable in the Slideshow. Because the PDF content is enlarged during the Slideshow, any margins will appear larger.
Your alternative may be to open the PDF in Apple Books.
When I use Preview's Slideshow mode, the entire PDF page (or pages) is surrounded by a black background. This does not differ by appearance mode. In regular viewing mode, you can pick a custom, but not transparent color for the background that surrounds a PDF document. That setting is at the bottom of Preview's Settings > General. This color is not present in a Slideshow viewing.
Define your interpretation of "Presentation mode?" Is it full-screen mode, or using the View menu > Slideshow selection? In either case, you have no control over how the PDF is presented to you. That is why I suggested Apple Books. Did you try that approach?
@VikingOSX, no, I am talking about black margin around the (white) margins of a PDF document. Namely, the PDF document is not scaled to 100% of the screen. It does not have to do with the PDF document itself, but with the unpleasant behavior of the Preview app.
Yes, I've meant Slideshow mode, sorry for the confusion.
Thank you for the suggestion to use Apple Books, but I would like to fix the problem with the Apple Preview.
Apple Preview: Remove margins in the Presentation mode
