diff --git a/src/lib/editor/Editor.svelte b/src/lib/editor/Editor.svelte
index f4ed87d..f6f6d8b 100644
--- a/src/lib/editor/Editor.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/editor/Editor.svelte
@@ -49,6 +49,23 @@
   let element: HTMLDivElement;
   let editorContainer: HTMLDivElement;
 
+  // Zoom is a CSS `transform: scale()` on .paper (so layout and pagination stay at
+  // 100%). A transform reserves no layout space, so .paper-scaler reserves the scaled
+  // footprint to drive the scrollbars and horizontal centering.
+  let paperEl: HTMLDivElement;
+  let docHeightDoc = $state(0); // document height, from pm-pagecount
+  let scaledWidth = $state(0);
+  let scaledHeight = $state(0);
+
+  function recomputeScaledSize() {
+    if (!paperEl) return;
+    const z = appliedZoom / 100;
+    const w = paperEl.offsetWidth;                  // unscaled page width (= --user-page-width)
+    const h = docHeightDoc || paperEl.offsetHeight; // unscaled document height
+    scaledWidth = Math.round(w * z);
+    scaledHeight = Math.round(h * z);
+  }
+
   // Page cycle (page height + 20px gap) in document px. Orientation-dependent, so
   // read live from --user-page-height (set by applyOrientationVars). Must match
   // pageBreaks.ts. Fallback = A4 portrait (1123 + 20).
@@ -105,9 +122,9 @@
 
   // --- Table page-break overlay ---
   // pageBreaks.ts reports (via pm-pagecount) the in-cell table breaks in document px
-  // relative to .tiptap's top. We render the overlay in a .band-layer INSIDE the
-  // zoomed .paper (in document px) so CSS `zoom` scales it by the exact same transform
-  // as the .tiptap page background. Two pieces per break:
+  // relative to .tiptap's top. We render the overlay in a .band-layer inside .paper
+  // (in document px) so the same `transform: scale()` scales it identically to the
+  // .tiptap page background. Two pieces per break:
   //   • band   — a solid page-coloured mask (content width) hiding the table's borders
   //              bleeding through the page margins, plus the close/open lines.
   //   • stripe — the dark page gap, drawn as ONE full-page-width element on top. Using
@@ -142,7 +159,7 @@
       else spacersByKey.set(key, [sp]);
     }
     // Everything below is in document px (relative to .tiptap's top). The .band-layer
-    // lives inside the zoomed .paper, so `zoom` applies the scaling — no manual `* z`.
+    // lives inside the scaled .paper, so the transform applies the scaling — no `* z`.
     const border = 1; // 1px page-edge line, like the CSS .tiptap background
     bandStyles = tableBandsDoc.map((b) => {
       // Anchor the band's vertical extent to the real rendered extent of this break's
@@ -233,6 +250,8 @@
 
   $effect(() => {
     appliedZoom; // track to fire after the pre-effect / DOM update
+    // Re-reserve the scaled scroll footprint for the new zoom (layout itself is frozen).
+    recomputeScaledSize();
     // Zoom changes the table's rendered position — re-place the floating toolbar.
     scheduleTableUi();
     if (pendingAnchorDocY === null || !editorContainer || !element) return;
@@ -274,9 +293,12 @@
   }
 
   function onPageCount(e: Event) {
-    const detail = (e as CustomEvent<{ numPages: number; tableBreakBands?: TableBreakBand[] }>).detail;
+    const detail = (e as CustomEvent<{ numPages: number; docHeight?: number; tableBreakBands?: TableBreakBand[] }>).detail;
     numPages = detail.numPages;
+    if (typeof detail.docHeight === 'number') docHeightDoc = detail.docHeight;
     tableBandsDoc = detail.tableBreakBands ?? [];
+    // The document height changed → resize the scaled scroll footprint.
+    recomputeScaledSize();
     updateCurrentPage();
     // Pagination spacers can shift a table's position — re-place the toolbar/bands.
     scheduleTableUi();
@@ -343,6 +365,11 @@
 
     element.addEventListener('pm-pagecount', onPageCount);
     editorContainer.addEventListener('scroll', onEditorScroll);
+    // Seed the scaled footprint before the first paint (so the page is centered, not
+    // briefly left-aligned), then refine it once layout settles. The pageBreaks plugin
+    // also fires pm-pagecount shortly after with the precise document height.
+    recomputeScaledSize();
+    requestAnimationFrame(recomputeScaledSize);
   });
 
   function onEditorScroll() {
@@ -361,26 +388,30 @@
 </script>
 
 <div class="editor" bind:this={editorContainer}>
-  <div class="paper" class:show-formatting-marks={showFormattingMarks} style="zoom: {appliedZoom / 100}">
-    <!-- Dedicated mount point that TipTap fully owns — keeping it free of Svelte
-         content avoids Svelte and ProseMirror fighting over the same parent's DOM. -->
-    <div bind:this={element} class="tiptap-host"></div>
-    {#if bandStyles.length}
-      <div class="band-layer">
-        {#each bandStyles as b}
-          <div
-            class="table-break-band"
-            style="top: {b.top}px; left: {b.left}px; width: {b.width}px; height: {b.height}px;"
-          ></div>
-        {/each}
-        {#each gapStripeStyles as s}
-          <div
-            class="page-gap-stripe"
-            style="top: {s.top}px; width: {s.width}px; height: {s.height}px; background: {s.background};"
-          ></div>
-        {/each}
-      </div>
-    {/if}
+  <!-- Reserves the scaled scroll footprint; the transform on .paper reserves none.
+       Before the first measure (size 0) it's left unsized so .paper isn't clipped. -->
+  <div class="paper-scaler" style={scaledWidth ? `width: ${scaledWidth}px; height: ${scaledHeight}px;` : ''}>
+    <div bind:this={paperEl} class="paper" class:show-formatting-marks={showFormattingMarks} style="transform: scale({appliedZoom / 100});">
+      <!-- Dedicated mount point that TipTap fully owns — keeping it free of Svelte
+           content avoids Svelte and ProseMirror fighting over the same parent's DOM. -->
+      <div bind:this={element} class="tiptap-host"></div>
+      {#if bandStyles.length}
+        <div class="band-layer">
+          {#each bandStyles as b}
+            <div
+              class="table-break-band"
+              style="top: {b.top}px; left: {b.left}px; width: {b.width}px; height: {b.height}px;"
+            ></div>
+          {/each}
+          {#each gapStripeStyles as s}
+            <div
+              class="page-gap-stripe"
+              style="top: {s.top}px; width: {s.width}px; height: {s.height}px; background: {s.background};"
+            ></div>
+          {/each}
+        </div>
+      {/if}
+    </div>
   </div>
   {#if tableUi.visible}
     <TableToolbar {editor} top={tableUi.top} left={tableUi.left} />
@@ -388,10 +419,10 @@
 </div>
 
 <style>
-  /* Overlay layer for the table page-break bands. It lives INSIDE the zoomed .paper
-     (filling it via inset:0) so the bands are scaled by the same CSS `zoom` as the
-     .tiptap page background — no sub-pixel seam at fractional zoom. pointer-events:none
-     keeps the editor clickable. The z-index must clear the column-/row-resize handles
+  /* Overlay layer for the table page-break bands. It lives inside .paper (filling it
+     via inset:0) so the bands are scaled by the same transform as the .tiptap page
+     background — no sub-pixel seam at fractional zoom. pointer-events:none keeps the
+     editor clickable. The z-index must clear the column-/row-resize handles
      (z-index:20 in editor.css): a too-tall cell is one continuous DOM box, so its resize
      handle spans every page gap it crosses; the band masks that handle in the gap just
      like it masks the table's borders bleeding through the page margins. */
diff --git a/src/lib/editor/pageBreaks.ts b/src/lib/editor/pageBreaks.ts
index cf22015..788bf3a 100644
--- a/src/lib/editor/pageBreaks.ts
+++ b/src/lib/editor/pageBreaks.ts
@@ -97,12 +97,9 @@ type VMargins = {
 };
 
 // Reads the vertical page margins + page height (px) from the --user-* custom
-// props the Layout panel writes via applyMarginVars (pageMargins.ts) and
-// applyOrientationVars (pageOrientation.ts). These are plain px strings in
-// document coordinates — unaffected by the ancestor CSS `zoom`, unlike
-// getComputedStyle padding — so they pair directly with the unscaled offsetTop
-// measurements below. Side margins don't affect pagination (they change line
-// wrapping, which we already measure from the live DOM), so we ignore them.
+// props the Layout panel writes (pageMargins.ts / pageOrientation.ts). These are
+// document-px values, so they pair directly with the offsetTop measurements below.
+// Side margins don't affect pagination (only line wrapping), so we ignore them.
 function readVerticalMargins(dom: HTMLElement): VMargins {
   const cs = getComputedStyle(dom);
   const top = parseFloat(cs.getPropertyValue('--user-margin-top'));
@@ -224,20 +221,13 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
           }
         }
 
-        // CSS `zoom` is applied to the `.paper` ancestor in Editor.svelte. Under
-        // zoom, getBoundingClientRect / Range.getClientRects / coordsAtPos all
-        // return viewport (scaled) pixels, while offsetTop/offsetHeight and the
-        // page layout constants stay in unscaled document pixels. Read the
-        // computed zoom so we can divide viewport measurements back into
-        // document coordinates.
-        function getZoomFactor(): number {
-          let el: HTMLElement | null = editorView.dom.parentElement;
-          while (el) {
-            const z = parseFloat(getComputedStyle(el).zoom || '1');
-            if (z && z !== 1) return z;
-            el = el.parentElement;
-          }
-          return 1;
+        // The display scale (.paper has `transform: scale()`): the ratio of .tiptap's
+        // painted height to its unscaled offsetHeight. findLineSplit uses it to convert
+        // scaled glyph rects back to document px.
+        function getScaleFactor(): number {
+          const r = editorView.dom.getBoundingClientRect();
+          const h = editorView.dom.offsetHeight;
+          return h ? r.height / h : 1;
         }
 
         function previousNonSpacerSibling(el: HTMLElement): HTMLElement | null {
@@ -331,7 +321,7 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
         function findLineSplit(
           el: HTMLElement,
           overflowDistance: number,
-          zoom: number,
+          scale: number,
         ): { naturalLineTop: number; docPos: number } | null {
           const lines = getLineRects(el);
           if (lines.length === 0) return null;
@@ -357,7 +347,7 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
             for (const sp of intraSpacers) {
               if (sp.viewportTop < viewportY) dropped += sp.height;
             }
-            return (viewportY - elRect.top) / zoom - dropped;
+            return (viewportY - elRect.top) / scale - dropped;
           }
 
           // Line-box bottom in natural coords. Range.getClientRects() reports
@@ -418,29 +408,27 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
           return { naturalLineTop, docPos: lo };
         }
 
-        function collectLeaves(contentHeight: number, zoom: number): Leaf[] {
+        function collectLeaves(contentHeight: number): Leaf[] {
           const dom = editorView.dom;
-          const domRect = dom.getBoundingClientRect();
           const leaves: Leaf[] = [];
           // cumulativeSpacerHeight accumulates spacer offsetHeights (unscaled
           // layout px), matching the offsetHeight-based naturalHeight.
           let cumulativeSpacerHeight = 0;
 
-          // A leaf's top within .tiptap, in unscaled document px. We read
-          // getBoundingClientRect (the real painted geometry) and divide by the CSS
-          // `zoom` on .paper — the same scaled→unscaled conversion findLineSplit and
-          // the CSS page background use. Summing offsetTop up the offsetParent chain
-          // (the previous approach) drifts from the rendered layout under zoom —
-          // notably through a table's nested offsetParents — so breaks landed a few
-          // percent off, accumulating down the page until content was clipped.
-          // offsetHeight stays the source for heights: it's a single-element read (no
-          // chain to drift) and integer-stable, avoiding per-keystroke spacer shake.
-          // Round to whole px: spacer heights / cumulativeSpacerHeight are integers, so
-          // an integer top keeps the model integer-stable (no sub-pixel jitter from the
-          // /zoom of a device-rounded spacer flipping a break on every keystroke), at a
-          // ≤0.5px cost that's immaterial next to the drift this replaces.
+          // A leaf's border-box top within .tiptap, in document px. Summing offsetTop
+          // up the offsetParent chain is unaffected by the `transform: scale()` on
+          // .paper, so the value is the same at every display zoom. offsetTop includes
+          // each offsetParent's top padding; the chain ends at .tiptap, whose padding-
+          // top is the page top margin, so the sum already uses the page-cycle origin
+          // (page top = 0, content starts at the top margin).
           function topWithin(el: HTMLElement): number {
-            return Math.round((el.getBoundingClientRect().top - domRect.top) / zoom);
+            let top = 0;
+            let node: HTMLElement | null = el;
+            while (node && node !== dom) {
+              top += node.offsetTop;
+              node = node.offsetParent as HTMLElement | null;
+            }
+            return top;
           }
 
           // Emit one atomic leaf per table row so the table can break between
@@ -616,8 +604,8 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
           const marginLeft = Number.isFinite(mlRaw) ? mlRaw : 80;
           const contentWidth = (Number.isFinite(pwRaw) ? pwRaw : 794) - marginLeft - (Number.isFinite(mrRaw) ? mrRaw : 80);
 
-          const zoom = getZoomFactor();
-          const leaves = collectLeaves(CONTENT_HEIGHT, zoom);
+          const scale = getScaleFactor();
+          const leaves = collectLeaves(CONTENT_HEIGHT);
 
           let cumulativeShift = 0;
           // Per-cell flow bracketing for a too-tall row (see Leaf flow markers): each
@@ -698,7 +686,7 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
                   reason = 'atomic-too-tall-no-push';
                 }
               } else {
-                const split = findLineSplit(leaf.el, contentEnd - effectiveTop, zoom);
+                const split = findLineSplit(leaf.el, contentEnd - effectiveTop, scale);
                 if (split === null) {
                   if (leaf.naturalHeight <= CONTENT_HEIGHT) {
                     spacerHeight = pageContentStart(page + 1, vm.top, CYCLE_PX) - effectiveTop;
@@ -863,9 +851,10 @@ export const PageBreaks = Extension.create({
             gap: PAGE_GAP,
           }));
 
+          // docHeight (document px) lets Editor.svelte size the scaled scroll footprint.
           dom.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('pm-pagecount', {
             bubbles: true,
-            detail: { numPages, tableBreakBands },
+            detail: { numPages, docHeight: targetHeight, tableBreakBands },
           }));
 
           lastSnapshot = {
diff --git a/src/styles/editor.css b/src/styles/editor.css
index 3a478e0..66cbd7f 100644
--- a/src/styles/editor.css
+++ b/src/styles/editor.css
@@ -7,13 +7,22 @@
   position: relative;
 }
 
+/* Reserves the SCALED footprint of the transformed .paper (a CSS transform takes
+   no layout space of its own), so the scrollbars and horizontal centering reflect
+   the zoomed page. Its width/height are sized in JS (Editor.svelte). */
+.paper-scaler {
+  margin: 0 auto;
+}
+
 /* A4 paper container (794px = 210mm at 96dpi by default; --user-page-width is
    set from the Layout panel and swaps to 1123px in landscape — pageOrientation.ts) */
 .paper {
   width: var(--user-page-width, 794px);
-  margin: 0 auto;
+  /* Zoom is a `transform: scale()` set inline (Editor.svelte); pin the origin so the
+     page scales down/right from the top-left of its reserved footprint. */
+  transform-origin: top left;
   /* Positioning context for the table page-break overlay (.band-layer in
-     Editor.svelte), which lives inside .paper so the ancestor `zoom` scales it
+     Editor.svelte), which lives inside .paper so the same transform scales it
      identically to the .tiptap page background. */
   position: relative;
 }
@@ -354,9 +363,16 @@
     overflow: visible;
   }
 
+  /* Never scale for print — the real page size comes from @page below. */
+  .paper-scaler {
+    width: auto;
+    height: auto;
+  }
+
   .paper {
     width: 100%;
     max-width: none;
+    transform: none;
   }
 
   .paper .tiptap {