Is there a way to allow continuous scrolling in Adobe Reader?

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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?

TookTheRook · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-20T00:26:11.753

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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'

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answered Aug 16 '11 at 20:45

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This setting is initialized from the PDF file. You'll rapidly become accustomed to doing this every time you open the offending document... At least in Reader X there is a toolbar button whose tool tip reads "Fit to window width and enable scrolling" located to the right of center of the tool bar items that does what it says on the tin. – RBerteig Aug 17 '11 at 00:53
unfortunately it doesn't work for epub and mobi – JinSnow Aug 23 '16 at 06:00
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Absolutely incredible that this isn't the default configuration... – bpcookson Oct 13 '16 at 17:43
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Works on Reader XI also. I was about ready to lynch whoever did the manual I was reading. – Loren Pechtel Jul 21 '17 at 02:37
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This solution led me to another solution for a problem annoying me -- the default zoom. Turn off the zoom override here, and use the one under Page Display. Much appreciated for the quality answer!! **Note: both of these are still relevant answers in 2017 for Acrobat Reader** – Nov 24 '17 at 03:56
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The default behaviour fix worked for me, but I had to open & close the file for it to take effect. I suppose it would have worked right away if I made both suggested changes, however. – Danneyland Jun 12 '20 at 18:42
I wish I could upvote this question and answer more than once. I search for it every time I set up Acrobat on a new computer. – Tatiana Racheva Jul 22 '23 at 01:04

score 77 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 16 '12 at 13:40

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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.

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answered Feb 17 '12 at 23:23

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This is the real gem amongst these answers. Other methods of setting the default view, such as suggested by @sblair don't work. – Amr Bekhit Nov 06 '12 at 09:31
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love it. Make it default is my fav choice. – Dio Phung Feb 09 '14 at 10:46

score 27 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 16 '12 at 13:42

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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.

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This is only the solution that solved my problem. Thanks – CroCo Oct 27 '14 at 20:17
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I was actually looking exactly for autoscroll in fullscreen, thanks for noting this... – sdaau Jun 18 '15 at 02:38
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Still works as of Adobe Acrobat Reader DC 15/2015. Still entirely unobvious :) – genpfault Aug 08 '15 at 05:57
Perfect! Impossible to guess! – Antony Hatchkins Nov 14 '16 at 16:36
I would call this a bug or exploit and it works for me in Reader XI but only while full screen is active. Instead I found that using the `Touch mode` solves this whole issue for me. Using "scroll mode" and "touch mode" at the same time prevents navigation from jumping at the end of a page. But the toolbar will look different... – Micka Dec 06 '16 at 17:05
amazing !!! worked perfectly !!! – Ani Mar 04 '17 at 14:07
Perfect! How did you guess this? – a06e Jul 28 '17 at 18:08
I can confirm, still works for Adobe Reader DC 2021 – Daniel Rodríguez Meza May 04 '21 at 18:25

score 6 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 20:46

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.

score 3 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 20:45

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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

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score 3 · Answer 6 · edited Oct 16 '12 at 13:41

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View » Page Display » Enable Scrolling
CtrlL for full screen. This will change the cursor to the "hand" and the keyboard arrows will now scroll partial pages.
Esc – This gets out of full screen mode. The "hand" cursor and partial page scroll is still available.
Esc – This changes the cursor to the "I" bar and resumes the default scrolling.

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answered Oct 15 '12 at 17:44

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 19 '18 at 07:26

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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.

answered Dec 19 '18 at 07:26

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score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 20 '21 at 10:04

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For version 2021

View -> Page Display -> Enable Scrolling

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Jan 04 '13 at 18:57

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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 ?

answered Jan 04 '13 at 18:57

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I'm curious. Isn't this the same answer as [Lillys](http://superuser.com/a/391201/50173)? Correct me if I'm wrong – nixda Jan 04 '13 at 19:19

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