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How to smooth scroll with Acrobat DC

Guest
Dec 13, 2015 Dec 13, 2015

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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Dec 13, 2015 Dec 13, 2015

Hi paulsenduser,

Open Acrobat Reader DC, navigate to Help menu & repair the installation.

Relaunch Acrobat Reader DC & Enable Scrolling, now try to replicate the issue.

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Aadesh

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Guest
May 14, 2016 May 14, 2016

Took me a while to get back to you.

I tried what you suggested, but it did not have any affect.  There is no way to simply scroll up and down smoothly from page to page like you can in MS Word.  This jumping around is really disruptive to the experience.  Please let me know if you have any other suggestions.

Thanks,

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Guest
May 15, 2016 May 15, 2016

I finally figured out what the problem was.  I have been keeping the select tool activated at all times because I do a lot of cutting and pasting.  Once I switched back to the hand tool as the default, everything is scrolling along just fine.

Not sure why the select tool is engineered to scroll differently, but there it is.

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Community Beginner ,
Nov 10, 2016 Nov 10, 2016

paulsenduser​

I had the same problem and either your method didn't help, BUT i did find a fix.

Here is the fix

MAC

ADOBE ACROBAT > Preferences > Accessibility > Always use Page Layout Style > Single Page Continuous

PC

Edit > Preferences > Accessibility > Always use Page Layout Style > Single Page Continuous

Now its smooth as butter

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Participant ,
May 02, 2018 May 02, 2018

THANK YOU!!!!!

I hate these programmers who continue to make programs more and more complicated and make them do things they think we want.  Ugh.  Hate it.  I wish they all would just go home, collect unemployment for a little while and stop "improving" things

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New Here ,
May 18, 2018 May 18, 2018

Easy Tiger_words... as a programmer, it's not us.  We are told what to do by Marketing and Sales.    So blame those guys not use developers.

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Participant ,
May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018

Well geez, I'm sorry. I never realized that. I don't work in the industry so I didn't understand that sales people are driving that sort of thing.

Please tell them they suck.

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Participant ,
May 22, 2018 May 22, 2018

Now if you can help me reset Adobe so I can just save something, rather than save as with 3 extra clicks - something in security but an update reset it and I can't get it back...

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Participant ,
Oct 19, 2018 Oct 19, 2018

Welp, Adobe has f-ed up something else.  Tell the salespeople to stop with the "improvements" since the programmers don't have the fortitude to resist their demands.

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Participant ,
Feb 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024

@netstv The recent update of Adobe was so bad there's now a button to restore the original view.  It's incredible that this sort of thing happens (regardless of who is to blame).  Somewhere between marketing and sales and programming, the end user is forgotten.  

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New Here ,
Feb 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024

Holy smokes!  Commenting on things that are almost 6 years old.  Time to find another forum dude.

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Participant ,
Feb 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024

In fact there is another forum, but since you're not on it, I figured I'd let you know.  I am sorry if you think this violates some internet protocal but others have also commented recently so...

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New Here ,
Jan 01, 2019 Jan 01, 2019

Thank you so so much for this. I was planning to find a time to systematically go through all the preference panes (I mean, really? That many?) to sort this out, now I'm free!

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New Here ,
Aug 29, 2020 Aug 29, 2020

Thank you. Just what I was looking for.

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Explorer ,
Dec 17, 2020 Dec 17, 2020

Acrobat--like almost all of Adobe products--has graduated to the status of bloatware. Lots of confusing features that few understand but everyone has to pay for. 

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New Here ,
Mar 15, 2024 Mar 15, 2024

thank you - i have been stuggling with this for ages

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New Here ,
Mar 15, 2024 Mar 15, 2024

However, disabling new acrobat reader worked much better on my mac.

 

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New Here ,
Dec 30, 2019 Dec 30, 2019

Thank you!  Switching from the select tool to hte hand tool worked for me!

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New Here ,
May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020

Thank you! Even I was facing the same problem. The scrolling experience is much better now

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Explorer ,
Dec 17, 2020 Dec 17, 2020

No. The app should not need to be repaired, unless the below setting still doesn’t work properly.  

 

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. 

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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 ,
Oct 19, 2019 Oct 19, 2019

The red highlighted rectanlge Click on  it and click on .....Fit to Width scrolling. It worked for me

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New Here ,
Feb 22, 2024 Feb 22, 2024

Thank you for your kind answer. You saved a lot of time. 

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New Here ,
May 05, 2024 May 05, 2024

Thanks bro

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