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I often am forced to view long PDF documents either in browser or out of browser. When I'm forced to use such documents, it's always frustrating, because whenever I scroll the document, the viewer 'stutters' -- and it's at least some 30 seconds later before Acrobat relinquishes control of my mouse pointer. (I've found that if I Alt-Tab out of Acrobat, everything finishes scrolling instantly, and I get my pointer back)
I suspect that the issue lies in not having the world's greatest graphics card in this laptop (an NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160), but it scrolls so slowly that I don't think this is just a hardware problem.
Has anybody had this problem before? What does one do about it?
EDIT:
Interestingly, this only seems to occur if I use the 'middle button scroll' on the laptop keyboard; if I plug in an external USB mouse and scroll that way the problem seems to go away.
EDIT2:
Replacing Adobe Reader with something else is not an option. Using alternative readers has bit me in the a** enough times that I don't want to deal with it. Unless it supports reading anything in a PDF that Reader X does, I'm not interested (and no third party reader does so).
More to the point, this occurs in other applications on this machine than Adobe Reader -- it's just that in Reader this problem is most noticeable. Using Foxit Reader, for instance, does not change the problem; it's still just as poor there as it is in the first party tool.
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@Jeff also suggested to update your drivers, it might help a bit if they were very outdated.
@Mehrdad's suggestion is just wrong, power-save is unlikely as external USB mouse goes just fine.
And this is what the documentation says:
Check 2D Graphics Accelerator (Windows only)
(Appears only if your computer hardware supports 2D graphics acceleration.) When selected, allows hardware acceleration usage when the first document is opened. When deselected, hardware acceleration usage starts after the first document is opened. This option can slow startup time, so it is unselected by default.
So, in short, it just starts the hardware acceleration earlier which does not have any effect on your scrolling.
Also, you don't want to enable smooth scrolling, as this results in more frames and thus worse performance.
So, here are my suggestions which can improve performance assuming the latest version Adobe Reader X:
Under Edit >Preferences:
Page Display >Smooth Text > None
Making your text more beautiful takes time, it might have an impact on your performance.
Page Display >Enhance thin lines > Unchecked
Similar to text, this might have an impact too.
Page Display >Use 2D graphics acceleration > (Un)checked
It's essential to try both states here, who knows your CPU is faster and thus software-based is faster.
If you uncheck this, you might want to uncheck Smooth line art and Smooth images too.
You might want to learn to use your reader different, for example, run it in full screen mode like this:
Go to View >Full Screen Mode or press Control + L.
The default is to show the full page, other views can be accessed by Control + 0 - 5.
Use PgUp and PgDown (or Space) to jump instead of scroll.
Another bunch of specific solutions are listed in this thread, but I doubt if they can help you..
If your problem in Adobe Reader isn't resolved, you could try an alternative reader like Foxit.
EDIT: Interestingly, this only seems to occur if I use the 'middle button scroll' on the laptop keyboard; if I plug in an external USB mouse and scroll that way the problem seems to go away.
Interesting, try to see if you can update the drivers for your touchpad. Also check for any odd settings for it.
It is a branded touch-pad (check under Device Manager) can you mention to us which one?
Tamara WijsmanTamara WijsmanThe above suggestions, while comprehensive, were not the culprit when I encountered this a few years ago (and just now). I just remembered how to fix it..
Click on View >Page Display >Enable Scrolling
Sounds like your graphics card believe it or not. Your card seems to be having trouble keeping up. You can try updating your graphics drivers or trying a new video card. Adobe has a smooth scroll which may cause issues with some older cards especially.
Jeff F.Jeff F.For viewing, there are alternative products that are much faster than the bloated Acrobat.
The fastest I know is Foxit Reader, which I use myself.
harrymcharrymcI had the same problem. Tried changing the settings listed in other responses to this post. It wasn't until I disabled 'enable protected mode at startup' that Acrobat Reader X scrolled and zoomed acceptably. I think my Company had this mode enabled by default in the install, and it cripples the functionality of the application.
Your graphics card can't handle the graphics. :( It might be that it's in some power-saving mode, like ATI's PowerPlay or NVIDIA's PowerMizer -- try seeing if that's the case first.
If not, go to Edit->Preferences and try changing:
General->Check 2D graphics accelerator
Page Display->Use smooth scrolling
If you would like to try alternatives that might be faster the Adobe have a look at
evince and okular are very good. I find them to be much faster then Adobe. They don't handle things like pdf forms but for most other pdf files they are much faster loading up and running.
nelaaronelaaroAre you running Windows or a flavour of linux? I ask this because different drivers will sometimes become slow and outdated. I had a similar problem with my netbook remix version of Ubuntu -- the scrollpad was borked and needed to be reconfigured with a newer and better driver.
I don't think it has anything to do with your graphics card as suggested above, as it works well with an external mouse.
n0pen0peInterestingly, this only seems to occur if I use the 'middle button scroll' on the laptop keyboard; if I plug in an external USB mouse and scroll that way the problem seems to go away.
This sticks out to me. Make sure your USB mouse is disconnected, then go into Control Panel, select 'Mouse' (you can search for it in the top right), choose the 'Wheel' tab and change the 'Vertical Scrolling' option to 'One screen at a time'. See if that helps.
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I had this issue on a Lenovo laptop. I fixed it by adding an exception for acrodr32.exe to Universal Scrolling in the mouse advanced properties.
- Go to Control Panel » Hardware and Sound » Devices and Printers
- Open Mouse» Lenovo » Advanced Properties
- Open Wheel » Exceptions and click Add
- Browse to
AcroRd32.exe
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I had to change the Framerate Threshold for the program to be responsive again. Preferences > 3D & Multimedia > Framerate Threshold. I changed it do 40 FPS and the program seemed to run just fine.
Go to Preferences in Adobe Reader, 3D and Multimedia, and change preferred renderer from DirectX 9 to software. That should fix your problem.
RenanTry and scroll not by mouse wheel but by dragging the slider on the scrollbar. You'll see that there's no problem at all, scrolling is perfectly snappy and fast.
Thus, this problem is related to the translation between mouse wheel and program, it is NOT a graphics card or Adobe Reader performance problem.
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[..] I haven't found a solution, but I have discovered that turning automatic scrolling ON and OFF (View>Automaticall scroll or Shift+Ctrl+H) temporarily solves the problem, but only for the currently visible document. [..]
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click start > control panel > ((in control panel window, look for 'Mouse' > ((mouse properties window will pop, click 'WHEEL' tab > raise the value under the 'VERTICAL SCROLLING' save and check if it is to your liking. repeat until you find what speed you are looking for,.