How to smooth scroll with Acrobat DC

[Guest]

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. 

[AadeshSingh]

Hi paulsenduser,

Open Acrobat Reader DC, navigate to Help menu & repair the installation.

Relaunch Acrobat Reader DC & Enable Scrolling, now try to replicate the issue.

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Aadesh

[Guest]

Took me a while to get back to you.

I tried what you suggested, but it did not have any affect.  There is no way to simply scroll up and down smoothly from page to page like you can in MS Word.  This jumping around is really disruptive to the experience.  Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks,

[Guest]

I finally figured out what the problem was.  I have been keeping the select tool activated at all times because I do a lot of cutting and pasting.  Once I switched back to the hand tool as the default, everything is scrolling along just fine.

Not sure why the select tool is engineered to scroll differently, but there it is.

[FS7]

paulsenduser​

I had the same problem and either your method didn't help, BUT i did find a fix.

Here is the fix

MAC

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

PC

Edit > Preferences > Accessibility > Always use Page Layout Style > Single Page Continuous

Now its smooth as butter

[Tiger_words]

THANK YOU!!!!!

I hate these programmers who continue to make programs more and more complicated and make them do things they think we want.  Ugh.  Hate it.  I wish they all would just go home, collect unemployment for a little while and stop "improving" things

[netstv]

Easy Tiger_words... as a programmer, it's not us.  We are told what to do by Marketing and Sales.    So blame those guys not use developers.

[Tiger_words]

Well geez, I'm sorry. I never realized that. I don't work in the industry so I didn't understand that sales people are driving that sort of thing.

Please tell them they suck.

[Tiger_words]

Now if you can help me reset Adobe so I can just save something, rather than save as with 3 extra clicks - something in security but an update reset it and I can't get it back...

[Tiger_words]

Welp, Adobe has f-ed up something else.  Tell the salespeople to stop with the "improvements" since the programmers don't have the fortitude to resist their demands.

[Tiger_words]

@netstv The recent update of Adobe was so bad there's now a button to restore the original view.  It's incredible that this sort of thing happens (regardless of who is to blame).  Somewhere between marketing and sales and programming, the end user is forgotten.  

[netstv]

Holy smokes!  Commenting on things that are almost 6 years old.  Time to find another forum dude.

[Tiger_words]

In fact there is another forum, but since you're not on it, I figured I'd let you know.  I am sorry if you think this violates some internet protocal but others have also commented recently so...

[jamespherman]

Thank you so so much for this. I was planning to find a time to systematically go through all the preference panes (I mean, really? That many?) to sort this out, now I'm free!

[CC99j]

Thank you. Just what I was looking for.

[dcwinton]

Acrobat--like almost all of Adobe products--has graduated to the status of bloatware. Lots of confusing features that few understand but everyone has to pay for. 

[Julie36114924yfjf]

thank you - i have been stuggling with this for ages

[Julie36114924yfjf]

However, disabling new acrobat reader worked much better on my mac.

[VivianSolomon]

Thank you!  Switching from the select tool to hte hand tool worked for me!

[RoystonDmello]

Thank you! Even I was facing the same problem. The scrolling experience is much better now

[dcwinton]

No. The app should not need to be repaired, unless the below setting still doesn’t work properly.  

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. 

[tadeušk62345499 · Accepted solution]

Enable this. For me works.

[ghanashyam1203]

The red highlighted rectanlge Click on  it and click on .....Fit to Width scrolling. It worked for me

[Asraful35627483336q]

Thank you for your kind answer. You saved a lot of time. 

[bikeitsolo]

Hi! My first question here and I believe here it where it fits best.

I am doing some split-screen editing on my MacBook Air.

On the right I have a pdf open via Adobe DC.

On the left I have an OpenOffice file.

The scrolling is working well, but here is the catch:

If I have my zoom on the PDF at 75%, it scrolls great 

and I have zero right to left motion inside the view, as at 75% the margins are fully fitting.

However I cannot see the text itself, or well, it is quite small.

My optimal zoom is 84%, which in split view on my mac allows me to see the exact width of the TEXT in the PDF itself.

However, and this is what I am trying to "Lock"  in that I get right to left motion within the PDF, as it thinks that I would really like to "see" what I have done on the margins, however in my case I have no use of looking at the margins. Needless to say, the side to side motion within the PDF is really tirying my eyes.

Does anyone know how to "lock" right to left motion.  If you need a clarification let me know.

As a side note, I am having the same problem in split screen view with the OpenOffice file on the left, but that is a question for another forum.

Thank you everyone!