I use Adobe Acrobat Pro for work—I edit book covers and manuscripts. I mark up the text and put notes in the margins exactly as I would if it were pen and paper using a Huion monitor with a touch-screen pen. It mostly works great, but there is one extremely frustrating feature that I can't figure out how to turn off. Whenever I write too fast, which is to say, whenever I write at my normal speed, the lines I make automatically connect themselves to the lines around them. For example, when I make a hashtag in the margin, I constantly have to slow myself down, or else the first vertical line attaches itself to the second one at the top, and then the same thing happens with the two horizontal lines: 
This happens with my writing as well. In this example, I did not purposely connect any of the letters, but after picking up my pen and moving on to the next letter, the previous line auto-connects to my current line: 
You can barely tell that the word is “Little.” I have resigned myself to using cursive most of the time to avoid picking up the pen, but this is causing serious delays in my work overall, as the cursive fix isn't foolproof and I constantly have to erase and slowly rewrite my instructions so they are clear for my coworkers. It is clearly connected to the speed, since writing slowly doesn't cause the problem, but I have been unable to train myself to write slowly enough over the last few months that I've struggled with this.
Is there any way to change this setting? Any way to prevent the lines from automatically connecting?
(It reminds me of autocorrect fails in texting—you type the word you want, but then it suddenly changes to whatever the phone thinks you want instead. Grrr)
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