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How to smooth scroll with Acrobat DC

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Dec 13, 2015 Dec 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. 

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New Here , Nov 23, 2017 Nov 23, 2017

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Enable this. For me works.

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New Here ,
Sep 25, 2020 Sep 25, 2020

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Hi All, 

 

I have the same issue as well, where the pages move from left to right when scrolling up/down. Any suggestions on how to stop this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance! 

 

-Kara

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May 28, 2020 May 28, 2020

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View File in Read Mode

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Jun 09, 2020 Jun 09, 2020

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Best solution.

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

Fullscreen: 

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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):

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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

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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.

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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

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

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Oct 06, 2020 Oct 06, 2020

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Thank you anyways CandiJacobs, I am sure your answer will help someone down
the line regardless. Have a great day.

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 24, 2020 Oct 24, 2020

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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.

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Sep 11, 2021 Sep 11, 2021

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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.

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Oct 06, 2021 Oct 06, 2021

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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

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 27, 2021 Dec 27, 2021

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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.

 

 

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New Here ,
Jan 13, 2023 Jan 13, 2023

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 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 :heavy_check_mark: 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. 

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Aug 20, 2023 Aug 20, 2023

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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. 

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Jan 14, 2024 Jan 14, 2024

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

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