Acrobat DC view moves on its own when editing

[nicholas.netcentric]

I recently made the switch from Acrobat Pro XI to Acrobat DC. I'm a full-time form designer.

A big change I've noticed is: in Pro, if I moved a field, my current view on the page would remain stationary (let's say I've zoomed in very far to move a text field to match up with a border line on a fillable table). In DC, if I move a field, the view jumps to the center of the field or fields I've just moved (so in my example, I'm suddenly looking at the middle of the column's width, instead of the left or right edge, since I had zoomed in greater than the total size of the field).

Just in general, this results in me feeling that the view is constantly jumping around as I work, instead of remaining where I set it. It takes extra time to reposition to the view I want while I'm editing (which I am constantly setting/changing as I need). It's really costing me in efficiency...

Is there any way to disable this? The view should only move when I pan/scroll/zoom...

[Meenakshi Negi]

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for reaching out.

As you have mentioned, moving the fields changes the view jumps to the center of the field or fields I've just moved.

Would you mind sharing the video of the issue occurring at our end? It will help us to understand the issue.

Share the Acrobat and OS versions.

Let us know if you need any help.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

[nicholas.netcentric]

Sure, here's a short video showing the problem. In this example, I took field from a similar file and pasted them into a new file, then tried repositioning them (something we do on a regular basis as our clients have many overlapping files).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYcslLZADHI

[Dave__M]

Wow - that IS disconcerting!  I'll try to experiment to see if there is a way to control this - assuming the same result happens when I try it.

My best,

Dave

[Dave__M]

I just tried this, and it behaved as yours did.  What it appears to be doing is keeping a field fully in view once it is moved.  Now to see if there's any way to control its behavior... I'm not optimistic it can be done, but I'll mess with it to see.

Dave

[nicholas.netcentric]

Thanks - let me know!

It's particularly weird because I have Acrobat Pro XI on my other computer and can demonstrate time and again that it DOESN'T do this in the exact same situation. Given that it's an actual change/feature, it should be controlled by a setting or registry. I'd love to disable it (or enable a fixed view that only moves when I pan or zoom).

[Netcentric Nik]

@Meenakshi Negi any update on this? I'd really like to be able to disable the effect shown in the video I posted.