Why does my 72dpi PDF appear so huge when zoomed to 100%?

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From: Joe_Stampf
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 22:41

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Why does my 72dpi PDF appear so huge when zoomed to 100%?

I created my PDF at 72dpi, when I view it with other PDF viewers (such as ghostview - gsview -for windows) it shows up just fine at full size.

However, in Acrobat Reader (7.0.8), if I view the same PDF at full size (zoom=100%) a small portion of the upper-left corner fills the entire screen.

If I zoom down to about 24% then the image on screen corresponds in size to the original content.

My screen resolution is 1280x1024 on a 19" flat-panel.

Does anyone have any idea why this happens?

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