How do I display scroll bar in Reader 9 and X?

Thank you for confirming this. I tried the hand-tool vs. arrow-tool and that worked, but toggling touch mode to "Never" made it so the arrows and scroll bar are ALWAYS visible no matter if the hand or select tool are chosen.

Thank you!! I was going nuts, too!

Unfortunately that doesn't work in Adobe Reader XI, it cannot bypass the properties set by the author when creating the document.

I did find a workaround, however: The default mouse cursor is the useless "Hand Tool". If you right-click anywhere on the document content, you can change it to the "Select Tool", which displays some kind of overblown vertical scrollbar. It does overlap the document right side, unlike a normal scrollbar, but at least it's something.

For fast reading, I got into the habit of using the spacebar, or SHIFT+SPACEBAR if I need to go back one page. When reading a magazine in which only one or two articles interest me, I scroll down to the Table of Contents page, check the page number for that article, and enter it directly in the toolbar page number box.

What part of Adobe "Reader" do you not understand?

This is Adobe Reader forum, not Acrobat.

The same Touch settings are present in Reader but they do not make the scrollbars appear, neither the vertical nor the horizontal one when the view width exceeds the window width. The setting is stupidly embedded in the document and the user has no way to read such files, which seem to be more and more present, or we didn't have this problem in earlier versions, because this moronic behavior is relatively recent, or at least I don't remember anything like that in many years of using PDFs.

What's the point of being able to publish a document if it can't be read properly on any device the user may have? Scrollbars do not belong to the document itself, they should be a base feature of the reader, and appear automatically if the width or length of the document exceeds the size of the Reader window, like every single editor or browser or Windows control does.

This is ludicrous, users can't control the scroll bars? One of the most important features in navigation? I use Reader X, and almost none of the electronic magazines I read show these scroll bars. They force me to use the mouse wheel to scroll down to the second half of the page displayed every single time, and then it will jump to the next page because I used the wheel one click too far.

Reader is the only PDF reader I know that prevents users from reading. No doubt you devs have multiple 32" LCD monitors on your workstations, but try reading a PDF on a netbook or ultrabook or tablet, it is just impossible.

The reader doesn't even auto-adjust to my screen size to view the page in the largest font, so the scroll bars seem to be only one of the many usability issues of the software.

And I don't miss just the vertical toolbar, but also the horizontal one, when somehow magazines are published 2-page wide and when the 2 pages don't fit on the screen or window. Although I'd much prefer a full screen version that does not just jump from one top of a page to the top of the next page when you click (the mouse cursor looks like a down arrow) but a version that would display the rest of the page that does not fit on the screen so you can read the document.

Scroll bars have nothing to do with document creation, the document scanners don't have the slightest idea on what kind of device the document will be read. It should be possible to enable scroll bars by default on the reader side.

Bernd, thanks for your help.

However, once you leave full screen mode and go back to regular mode, the scroll bars still do not display. I tried creating a new PDF using Acrobat 9, and the scroll bars do appear.

Looks like a bug.

Rupertsland,

Canada