stop pen input being interpreted as gestures

Report · Feb 19, 2017

Hi,

I'm using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC now for a while to write on PDFs via my graphic tablet. But it has a very annoying bug/"feature": e.g. when drawing horizontal lines, especially when doing so a bit quicker (which happens if I write faster), sometimes Acrobat thinks it's a back gesture, so writing sometimes just gets a pain in the ass.

Somewhere I read I just had to disable the touchscreen mode. But setting it to "never" or "always ask" doesn't really help. It might not happen that often, but still it's very annoying. And it's visible where it would want to launch such an action but noticed it shouldn't: then I get just a point instead of a line.

And all the sudden, today it started to randomly switch to the hand tool while using then pen tool. That's pretty annoying too.

Is there any way to disable that completely so Acrobat never ever again will even think about seeing some kind of pen input as a back gesture or something else?

Help is very apreciated since there just aren't that many PDF viewers out there capable of letting users make annotations with a pen and between the two programs I found is Acrobat the more useable.

Report · May 21, 2020

I have exactly the same problem but it is now 3 years later. I am using Reader DC, Version 2020.009.20063 and I am using a pen on a wacom touch pad. I cannot really hand write any text. Any horizontal stroke or circle gets interpreted as a gesture and pops up the gesture dialog window. How do I stop this from happening so that I can annotate documents with hand written text. I am using this to mark student work.This has been bugging me for over two years now.

Please help

Thanks

Armin