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December 13, 2015
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How to smooth scroll with Acrobat DC

  • December 13, 2015
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Does anyone know how to set Acrobat Reader DC to scroll smoothly through a PDF document when viewing it?  Whenever I scroll through any PDF using the arrow key, when moving to a new page, the doc jumps around a lot, causing me to have to constantly use the scroll bar to reposition the page back to the beginning.  This disrupts the reading experience.  I have already tried View > Page Display > Enable Scrolling, but this has no effect on the issue.  I am using Windows 8.1 laptop. 

Correct answer tadeušk62345499

Enable this. For me works.

13 replies

Participant
October 27, 2024

Awesome! I had the same question and this solution worked. Thanks so much!

Participant
January 14, 2024

fit-to-width scrolling fixed it for me. then, reduced the size to what I prefer. 

Participant
August 20, 2023

If you have the updated Adobe (the one that doesn't have the tool bar at the top) you can go to Menu in the upper left-hand of the window, go to view then Find "Page display" and select "enable scrolling." Hope this helps. 

Participant
January 13, 2023

 The only way I have been able to get smooth scrolling to work is to:

1. Click "View," "Page Display," "Enable Scrolling."

2. Click "Edit," "Preferences," "Documents," then Place a ✔️ within the box next to "Restore last view settings when reopening documents" and click "OK."

3. Click "View," and "Read Mode." You will be able to smooth scroll your document.

4. Press "ESC" on your keyboard to exit "Read Mode."

5. Click on the drop-down arrow beside % to change the zoom level. I recommend setting the zoom to 75%; however, find what works for you the best.

6. You can now smooth scroll within Adobe without being in "Red Mode."

 

Let me know if this works for you. 

Participant
October 7, 2021

I saw 2 solutions here:

1. 

MAC

ADOBE ACROBAT > Preferences > Accessibility > Always use Page Layout Style > Single Page Continuous

 

2. Set it to "Fit to Width Scrolling" on the toolbar icon to the right of the zoom % dropdown, then pick a page size in the zoom % drpdown that you prefer. It will glide right down without breaking from page to page. 

 

Neither worked and neither had any effect.

 

I'm using a brand new MacBook Pro (11.6 Big Sur) and ADOBE Acrobat Pro DC.

 

Help!!!

 

Jonathan

Participating Frequently
December 28, 2021

I gave up on this.. when i use my trackpad it works great, but using the scrollwheel on a mouse just does not give a great experience. There have been a few threads about this, but Adobe is not providing any solution.

 

 

Participant
September 12, 2021

On my macbook pro, I find that I can get the desired effect with the trackpad, but when scrolling with a bluetooth mouse, ENABLE SCROLLING seems not to work. I tried slowing down the mouse scroll settings, but that did not help.

Participant
October 24, 2020

Finally they made smooth scroll as a default option.

The jumping pages were hurting my eyes and it was very confusing. Before I could not undestand am I on the same page or it is another page one. So I was preffering the browser as a pdf viewer before.

 

Now I like the Adobe Reader DC again.

CandiJacobs
Participant
October 6, 2020

Some may not have the 'Enable Scrolling' icon showing on their toolbar.  If you do not see the  'Enable Scrolling' icon on your toolbar, right-click on the toolbar and you will see the following menu.  Select 'Show Page Display Tools' and click 'Enable Scrolling.'  This will turn on the feature and place the icon in your toolbar.  To turn it off, follow the same steps.

 

CandiJacobs
Participant
October 6, 2020

Oops, I totally missed that you said you already tried this. NVM.  🙂

Participant
October 6, 2020
Thank you anyways CandiJacobs, I am sure your answer will help someone down
the line regardless. Have a great day.
Participant
June 9, 2020

Best solution.

Next to the zoom buttons, click on the Hand icon.

Fullscreen: 

Windows logo key  + Left arrowMaximize the app or desktop window to the left side of the screen.
Windows logo key  + Right arrowMaximize the app or desktop window to the right side of the screen.

From here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12445/windows-keyboard-shortcuts

When Windows snapped to half the screen (Win+Arrow key):

 

 

Participant
May 28, 2020

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