What's the Deal with Abode Reader?

[Vin DSL]

I've been wondering about this for a while...

Have you ever noticed how sometimes Adobe Reader will allow you to smoothly scroll down a page using the 'scroll bar'? Other times it won't. Of course, you can always use the 'hand' by 'grabbing' the page and 'dragging' it. But, I cannot figure out why some pages will scroll using the 'scroll bar' and some won't.

Examples:

This scrolls for me:
http://www.michelinman.com/assets/pd...inwarranty.pdf

This doesn't:
http://www.vega.com.hk/public/pdf/Pl...u_P50XHA30.pdf

Any ideas about this


EDIT: Oops! Sorry about the title! I transposed the 'b' and 'd'...

[jason]

It is a matter of how the PDF is created. The Michelin example is set to the default "Continous" setting, in which each page is visible in a continous list (similar to what you'd expect in Word), so it scrolls. The Vega example was saved in "Single Page" view (which doesn't make a whole lot of sense since there is only one page, but I suspect that is a feature of the trial software that was used to create it), in which only one page is visible at a time and scrolling it page-centric instead of viewable-area-centric.

--Jason

[Vin DSL]

Interesting!

Well, it's a major irritation to me, and the biggest reason I hate viewing PDF's. I don't know about you, but I avoid 'em like the plague. When I accidently click one, I usually wake the whole house in a hail of cursing...

[RLBurns]

Vin, down at the bottom of the Acrobat Reader screen, you should see a status bar. Towards the left side of that status bar is the [page] of [pages] counter and to the right of that is the page size indicator. Then, to the right of that are three icons. The first icon is "Single Page" which will cause the screen to jump at page breaks. The second icon is "Continuous" which causes the Michelin page to scroll smoothly. The third icon is "Continuous - Facing" which gives continuous scrolling with both the right and left pages displayed (not real useful for a landscape formatted page).

Bob...

[Vin DSL]

Vin, down at the bottom of the Acrobat Reader screen, you should see a status bar... to the right of that are three icons... "Single Page"... "Continuous"... "Continuous - Facing"...

Okay, I see it now. That makes sense! Thanks!

I wonder if there's a way to make Adobe Reader run in the background, or as a service. I've noticed the first time you use it, it takes forever to load. But, after that, it pops right up, until you restart Windows.

[Vin DSL]

Hrm...

Couldn't find any way to have it run in the background, but there was a setting in the preferences to default to 'Continuous' mode. So, I changed that. The default was 'Single Page'...