What's the yosemite equivalent of PVImagePrintingScaleMode?

I'm not sure that the setting has been removed, but I too used this command on my Macs before upgrading to Yosemite. However, it's stopped working on ONE of them, but not the other.

I've tried trashing the Preview preferences and re-applying the command, but no luck. I even transplanted the Preview preference file from the computer where it worked to the other one. Again no luck.

It seems that this isn't working anymore

Are you saying that you can't set the print scale in the Print window like this?

No, of course the field is available.

By default, Preview scales the image to fit the print margins, thereby usually reducing the image to 97%.

The defaults write key is supposed to make Preview default to "Scale: 100%". It seems to have stopped working on some computers. I've seen other posts about it with no solutions.

Currently, I have to manually set the scale to 100% every time I want to print, which is quite annoying.

Hi there, looks like Preview is sandboxed now. I manually added

<key>PVImagePrintingScaleMode</key>

<string>0</string>

to /Users/you/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.ap ple.Preview.plist. Restarted and bingo.

Close, but no cigar. That location doesn't work for me, but:

~/Library/Group\ Containers/com.apple.Preview/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview.plist

does work. Finally!

You either have to restart or kill all the cfprefs processes.

I've discovered a slightly easier method. It's best to modify any defaults write commands that you've been using to the following form:

defaults write -app Preview PVImagePrintingScaleMode 0

That will write the key and value to the correct preference file, wherever it is located.