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Smooth scrolling through pages

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December 28, 2012
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Hello,

I am using Acrobat X. I have noticed that with some PDF documents I can smoothly scroll from one page to the next. That is, as I scroll I see the last part of one page and the first part of the next page, but they are definitely separate pages. In other PDF documents, however, I cannot do this. Instead, I can only see one complete page on the screen at a time. When I scroll it simply jumps to the entire next page all at once. In most cases my preference is the smooth scrolling behavior. I assume the different behavior lies in how the PDF file was created. Could someone please tell me what causes this difference? I actually have the source code for a custom PDF file creator and I want to make sure I create PDFs with the smooth scrolling behavior.

Thanks,

Ray

Correct answer gener7

If the document is not locked from editing, do this in Acrobat X:

Ctrl D or File > Properties

Click on the Initial View tab > and from the Page Layout drop-down menu,choose: Default or Single Page Continuous

Click OK, Close and Save the document to keep changes.

When you open the document, it should have the continuous scrolling you want.

You may want to lock the document afterwards,if you do not want other Acrobat users tampering with the settings.

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joyful_crystal16857

New Participant

For Mac users, this worked for me. Check the enable scrolling option. Thanks.

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kmpowell

New Participant

All the stuff I read on here either weren't working for me or was a 1 time fix. What I found to work was going to Edit/Preferences/Accessibility and then on the Override Page Display - make sure the box is checked to Always Use Page Layout Style and choose in the dropdown Single Page Continuous. Then click OK. I always then exit out of PDF just to be safe and then go back in to see if it stuck. And it did for me.

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Ken32132977w5wq

New Participant

If Acrobat does not allow smooth scrolling, I close the PDF and open
with Edge. Always works for me.

Ken Robinson

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ZBalling

Inspiring

Edge uses chromium/chrome's pdfium. It has a lot of bugs. Not that Acrobat has none...

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Mehenika

New Participant

I myself was facing the same problem with a PDF having large pages in Adobe Acrobat Reader and was trying to fix it using the solutions mentioned here. Finally, came up with the solution from a YouTube video. Menu > View > Page Display > Enable Scrolling. Hope it works for you as well!

Dwerb Corporation

Known Participant

If you find that you are still having this problem, on the top bar there is a "More tools" Button (looks like a page with some arrows on it). Change this to fit width to scrolling.
If you have it set to fit-one-full-page which has arrows in 4 directions, it will scroll jump to the top of the new page when you transition between pages. (which is what I came here to find out then discovered while fiddling).

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Mathis28889232rrrr

New Participant

This works for me! Thank you so very much.

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Ken32132977w5wq

New Participant

Or you could open the PDF with Edge

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Oz Ab

New Participant

With the document open, click on "View" on top, click on "Page Display", from the drop down menu, choose (click on) "enable scrolling"

Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

Hi All,

Thank you for reporting this issue.

We see that this has been an ongoing issue and long-tailed.

We have tried to replicate this issue on our end. However, the issue cannot be reproduced in-house. That is why we need a few details for further investigation on this. It would be helpful if you can share the following information:

- Please share any sample PDF on which the issue can be reproduced.

- If possible, share the screen recording of the issue occurring on your end.

- Application (https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/identify-product-version.html) and OS version used on the machine.

- If you are using the Windows machine, please collect the Process Monitor logs. Download the Process monitor tool from this link: https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatmonitor.html on your machine and run it. Then reproduce the issue and save the logs. Share the logs with us.

We will be waiting for your response.

Regards,

Meenakshi

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JuanSolo1

New Participant

I stumbled across this thread looking for a setting to change this behaviour. I look at a lot of PDF files daily and the pages are packed with information, including important header information. When I scroll through documents, it seems like way more work than necessary to read information near the top and bottom margins of each page. I believe it is specific to the document since I just loaded Reader and the welcome document scrolls fine in Reader and my Pro 2020 version. I can also add that the files I am having issues with are converted from excel through the Adobe plugin. So maybe it is a setting in the plug-in. If so, it would be nice to fix existing PFDs. It may also be affected that the page orientation is not the same for all pages. Hope this helps.

Tiger_words

Inspiring

Here's what worked for me: Adobe Pro (9.x) View=>Page Display=>Single Page Continuous Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (20.009) View=>Page Display=>Enable Scrolling Neither of the documents I just tested are locked from editing (that I know of). Windows 10 OS

ashaeppa

New Participant

only this one works for me

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MarkThomasLusk1

Participating Frequently

This does not work for me. I have used the Cntrl D procedure as well as changing the defaults to continuous scrolling in Preferences. I am using Windows 10 and have a high-end workstation, only a few months old, so the hardware is not at issue. This is crazy. How can it be so clunky?!

Tiger_words

Inspiring

Here's what worked for me: Adobe Pro (9.x) View=>Page Display=>Single Page Continuous Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (20.009) View=>Page Display=>Enable Scrolling Neither of the documents I just tested are locked from editing (that I know of). Windows 10 OS

talk2robby

Participating Frequently

Thank you! One of the last updates changed it to page view snap. I was getting frustrated that none of the other ways were working for me. That last step "View=>Page Display=>Enable Scrolling " did the trick!

You saved my sanity! thank you very much!

gener7Correct answer

Adobe Expert

If the document is not locked from editing, do this in Acrobat X:

Ctrl D or File > Properties

Click on the Initial View tab > and from the Page Layout drop-down menu,choose: Default or Single Page Continuous

Click OK, Close and Save the document to keep changes.

When you open the document, it should have the continuous scrolling you want.

You may want to lock the document afterwards,if you do not want other Acrobat users tampering with the settings.

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BenevolentDeityAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for the suggestion, but I had already tried this and it had no affect on any of my documents. The ones that already scroll smoothly are not affected by changing the setting to "Single Page" and the ones that don't scroll smoothly are not affected by changing the setting to "Single Page Continuous".

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Brainiac

I assume you definitely are saving, CLOSING and reopening? Does it help to change the settings under View > Page Display (which are NOT saved).

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