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I am having to read through a MASSIVE (1000+ page) PDF specification in Adobe Reader. It has always bugged me that if you scroll to the edge of a page, the Reader automatically jumps to the top of the next page.

Is there a way to cut this functionality off so that as I'm scrolling, the bottom of the current page has a minimal space, and the next page continually scrolls into view, rather to jump in and take over the full display area?

I know that Microsoft Word can behave this way. Is there a setting in Adobe Reader 10, or higher, that I can change that will allow continuous document scrolling?

RLH
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For Adobe Reader X, XI:

To make continuous scrolling the default behavior:

Edit » Preferences » Accessibility » Always use Page Layout Style. Check Single Page Continuous.

To only do this for the current session:

Go to View » Page Display and check the option Enable Scrolling (this is only a one-time fix and will be reset the next time you open Adobe).

For Adobe Reader 9:

Go to View » Page Display and check the option Single Page Continuous.

They see me scrollin', they hatin'

TookTheRook
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Everything they said was fine but when you close and open Adobe Reader again, it goes back to single page viewing and that's annoying.

It's better to make it the default by doing this:

Edit » Preferences » Accessibility » Always use Page Layout Style. Check Single Page Continuous.

This helped me much more than having to keep switching it.

slhck
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Lilly
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For continous scrolling on full screen perform the following steps:

  • Go Fullscreen: CtrlL

  • Enable AutoScroll: CtrlShiftH

  • Disable AutoScroll: CtrlShiftH

Now you can scroll with the normal arrow keys.

slhck
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sid
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You need to enable scrolling. In Adobe Reader X, there might be a button for this on the toolbar. If it's not there, you can choose to show the button by right clicking on the toolbar and selecting Enable Scrolling from the Page Display option.

You can make this the default view from Edit > Preferences... > Page Display > Page Layout. Set this to Single Page Continuous.

sblair
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In Adobe Reader open the View menu and in the Page Display sub-menu choose Single Page Continuous.

Alternatively, you can use you keyboard by pressing the below keys in the displayed order:

alt, V, P, C

Windos
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  1. View » Page Display » Enable Scrolling

  2. CtrlL for full screen. This will change the cursor to the "hand" and the keyboard arrows will now scroll partial pages.

  3. Esc – This gets out of full screen mode. The "hand" cursor and partial page scroll is still available.

  4. Esc – This changes the cursor to the "I" bar and resumes the default scrolling.

slhck
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TheFormula
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For version 2021

View -> Page Display -> Enable Scrolling

Gulzar
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I think the best way to get rid of this annoying mode is choose another reader. I use pdf-xchange which let me chose single-page continuous mode, and un-check "respect to original view mode", so all PDF file opened in continuous mode.

Jack Wu
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The only way to make the scrolling choice permanent is from the Edit/Accessibility option. Edit/Preferences is not working. Can someone in Adobe fix this ?

Raja
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