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Patty Winter
Feb 23, 2012, 6:43:05 PM2/23/12
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I got a wireless mouse when I bought a new iMac last summer.
I love it, except for some reason it's very touchy when I use
Acrobat. (I have Acrobat X in CS5.) I'm constantly finding
myself 2-3 pages up or down from where I was just trying to
read. I don't have this problem with Word or other programs.
I've looked through the Acrobat preferences but not found
any way to adjust its scrolling sensitivity. Does anyone
here know of such a setting, or am I just doomed to keep
having to scroll my way back to the page I want to be on?
Thanks,
Patty
I love it, except for some reason it's very touchy when I use
Acrobat. (I have Acrobat X in CS5.) I'm constantly finding
myself 2-3 pages up or down from where I was just trying to
read. I don't have this problem with Word or other programs.
I've looked through the Acrobat preferences but not found
any way to adjust its scrolling sensitivity. Does anyone
here know of such a setting, or am I just doomed to keep
having to scroll my way back to the page I want to be on?
Thanks,
Patty
Fred Moore
Feb 24, 2012, 1:48:38 PM2/24/12
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In article <4f46cf09$0$12044$742e...@news.sonic.net>,
Sorry I can't give you a remedy, but I can confirm the problem and that
no one has come up with a fix.
I presume your 'wireless mouse' is Apple's Magic Mouse. The jumpy
behavior is common in all Adobe apps as well as others such as
NeoOffice. I posted this question to Macintouch on May 19, 2011, and got
zero replies.
<http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/inputdevices/topic4892-002.html>
/quote/
May. 17, 2011
Benson Young
I'm also very frustrated with the Magic Mouse. Inadvertent scrolling is
rampant with my hand position...
May. 18, 2011
Stephen Hart
I think some of the problem with inadvertent scrolling is the fault of
software. I find large variation in how an app reacts to scrolling.
InDesign seems the worst to me. I often launch an object out of the
window while clicking.
May. 19, 2011
To expand on Stephen Hart's comments about Magic Mouse scrolling
inconsistencies, I have found wildly different scrolling speeds and
reactions depending on specific applications and situations. My wife
can't use MM with any Adobe products. I have found I have to be
extremely careful with NeoOffice. I have even noticed the variability
_within_ a sub-window in a Safari web page where scrolling in the parent
window is normal. While I grudgingly admit to possible user error, these
circumstances are entirely reproducible.
Perhaps there is someone familiar with the sensor hardware and its
controlling software who could explain this app-to-app variability for
us.
/unquote/
Presumably the OS is gathering and feeding the same mouse tracking input
to each app, so why do apps behave differently? And none of these apps
have custom mouse-tracking prefs that I know off.
Input from knowledgeable hardware experts eagerly solicited!
no one has come up with a fix.
I presume your 'wireless mouse' is Apple's Magic Mouse. The jumpy
behavior is common in all Adobe apps as well as others such as
NeoOffice. I posted this question to Macintouch on May 19, 2011, and got
zero replies.
<http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/inputdevices/topic4892-002.html>
/quote/
May. 17, 2011
Benson Young
I'm also very frustrated with the Magic Mouse. Inadvertent scrolling is
rampant with my hand position...
May. 18, 2011
Stephen Hart
I think some of the problem with inadvertent scrolling is the fault of
software. I find large variation in how an app reacts to scrolling.
InDesign seems the worst to me. I often launch an object out of the
window while clicking.
May. 19, 2011
To expand on Stephen Hart's comments about Magic Mouse scrolling
inconsistencies, I have found wildly different scrolling speeds and
reactions depending on specific applications and situations. My wife
can't use MM with any Adobe products. I have found I have to be
extremely careful with NeoOffice. I have even noticed the variability
_within_ a sub-window in a Safari web page where scrolling in the parent
window is normal. While I grudgingly admit to possible user error, these
circumstances are entirely reproducible.
Perhaps there is someone familiar with the sensor hardware and its
controlling software who could explain this app-to-app variability for
us.
/unquote/
Presumably the OS is gathering and feeding the same mouse tracking input
to each app, so why do apps behave differently? And none of these apps
have custom mouse-tracking prefs that I know off.
Input from knowledgeable hardware experts eagerly solicited!
Patty Winter
Feb 24, 2012, 4:19:40 PM2/24/12
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Hi, Fred.
Thank you for posting the comments from the other discussion. Clearly
I'm not the only person who's noticed this sensitivity in Adobe's
products!
I use Photoshop occasionally and don't recall having the problem
there, but I may not have been scrolling much. I'll open up an
InDesign file and give that a try. Maybe I'll also wander over
to Adobe's own discussion groups and see whether anyone has found
a way to slow down the mousing in CS5. Although from the messages
you posted, no one has discovered such a setting. :-(
Patty
dorayme
Feb 24, 2012, 8:05:51 PM2/24/12
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> I got a wireless mouse when I bought a new iMac last summer.
> I love it, except for some reason it's very touchy when I use
> Acrobat. (I have Acrobat X in CS5.) I'm constantly finding
> myself 2-3 pages up or down from where I was just trying to
> read. I don't have this problem with Word or other programs.
If you do not find a satisfactory solution using your mouse,
> I love it, except for some reason it's very touchy when I use
> Acrobat. (I have Acrobat X in CS5.) I'm constantly finding
> myself 2-3 pages up or down from where I was just trying to
> read. I don't have this problem with Word or other programs.
1. Consider using the arrows on your keyboard instead
2. Try Shift Command H for a very smooth scrolling experience, hit key
combo again when you are where you want to be.
--
dorayme
Patty Winter
Feb 25, 2012, 2:34:55 PM2/25/12
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In article <dorayme-1DCD86...@news.albasani.net>,
dorayme <dor...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>If you do not find a satisfactory solution using your mouse,
>
>1. Consider using the arrows on your keyboard instead
Good point.
>
>If you do not find a satisfactory solution using your mouse,
>
>1. Consider using the arrows on your keyboard instead
>2. Try Shift Command H for a very smooth scrolling experience, hit key
>combo again when you are where you want to be.
Patty
dorayme
Feb 25, 2012, 4:14:59 PM2/25/12
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In article <4f4937df$0$11962$742e...@news.sonic.net>,
In case I did not mention before, I use a beaut non-Apple bluetooth
mouse with my MB and it does not exhibit quite the skittish behaviour
in my Acrobat Pro (9) when scrolling PDFs that you describe.
Nevertheless, when viewing PDFs that go on a bit, I sometimes fiddle
with the View menu options for an easier experience, there are many
options there and they sort of interact with your scrolling and/or
keyboard command paging or scrolling.
If you are just going to read a PDF rather to *anything else* at all,
there is a great and quick option, one that I use at least: I drag the
file over one or other of my browsers which have the Shubert plug-in
<http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/>
Mouse scroll wheels no doubt differ in their operations. With mine,
there is never a totally smooth operation by normal finger scrolling,
it is in small discrete steps, you can even feel the bumps in the
operation of the mouse as you turn the wheel. A bit like - but not as
dramatic as - the volume knob of my new radio in my car. My old radio
had one that was totally smooth and I could reach it and quickly turn
the vol to zero, the present one I have to jerk threw a whole series
of tiny steps. Give me the old analog ways any day!
--
dorayme
mouse with my MB and it does not exhibit quite the skittish behaviour
in my Acrobat Pro (9) when scrolling PDFs that you describe.
Nevertheless, when viewing PDFs that go on a bit, I sometimes fiddle
with the View menu options for an easier experience, there are many
options there and they sort of interact with your scrolling and/or
keyboard command paging or scrolling.
If you are just going to read a PDF rather to *anything else* at all,
there is a great and quick option, one that I use at least: I drag the
file over one or other of my browsers which have the Shubert plug-in
<http://www.schubert-it.com/pluginpdf/>
Mouse scroll wheels no doubt differ in their operations. With mine,
there is never a totally smooth operation by normal finger scrolling,
it is in small discrete steps, you can even feel the bumps in the
operation of the mouse as you turn the wheel. A bit like - but not as
dramatic as - the volume knob of my new radio in my car. My old radio
had one that was totally smooth and I could reach it and quickly turn
the vol to zero, the present one I have to jerk threw a whole series
of tiny steps. Give me the old analog ways any day!
--
dorayme
gudehus
Feb 5, 2014, 8:18:32 AM2/5/14
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I had the same problem in Acrobat XI with my Mac Magic Mouse. Go to the Acrobat View menu and click on Page Display. Then click on Enable Scrolling. This will uncheck Single Page View. You will still be able to scroll by sliding your finger on the top of the Mac mouse, but it will be much less sensitive. No more jumping around through the pages seemingly with a mind of its own. It was next to impossible to click on anything without having the page change.
Donald Gudehus
Donald Gudehus
Nick Naym
Feb 5, 2014, 8:49:05 PM2/5/14
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and challked it up to Mountain Lion (I went from SL to ML last year when
my previous iMac was replaced by Apple, and had no choice but to move to
ML...which I mostly despise). I "accidentally" discovered the "Page
Display" solution while playing around with Acrobat (mine is v10.1.9).
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iMac (27", 3.2 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) • OS X (10.8.5)
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