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Adobe Reader is a free PDF viewer created by Adobe.

Adobe Reader is part of the family of applications.

Security

Adobe Reader is often the target of many security exploits in browsers. It is very important that one keeps their copy of Adobe Reader as up-to-date as possible to attempt to counteract this.

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Can I turn off zoom-and-scroll behaviour of Adobe Reader's hand with down arrow pointer?

This happens only on some PDF opened in Adobe Reader: when the mouse hand cursor is on a page, a down arrow appears in the middle of the hand, and when I click, it zooms in and scrolls one screen down. Can this be turned off? It's very annoying, I…
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How to disable Acrobat Reader's "Click-Scroll-Feature"?

The term "click-scroll-feature" is made up by me. I have no idea how this is called. Some PDF documents have a feature enabled that allows you to scroll through the document by single clicking on the text. The presence of the feature is indicated by…
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What does "(SECURED)" mean in the title of Adobe Reader?

I opened a PDF that I haven't looked at in a while and noticed that in Adobe Reader, the title becomes "filename.txt (SECURED) - Adobe Reader" Can someone tell me what the "(SECURED)" denotes? (Prior to today, FoxIT Reader had been my default PDF…
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Disabling Pop-Up Tool-Tips in Adobe Reader

Is there any way to disable these annoying tool-tips in adobe reader? They come up every time I open a document. I am using Adobe Reader X.
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Can Adobe be set to default to open all PDFs at 100% zoom?

I open and close many PDFs at work every day. Is it possible to have Adobe's default settings saved so that all PDFs open at 100% zoom (rather than fitting to screen--most open at over 100%)?
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How do I install Adobe Acrobat reader without the download manager?

How do I install Adobe Acrobat reader without the download manager?
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How to disable middle button showing a page thumbnail in Adobe Reader?

Middle click and drag in Adobe Reader scrolls the page, as it does in most Windows applications. However, middle click and release (without dragging) shows a page thumbnail. Is there any way to turn off the thumbnail-showing behavior? It's…
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Adobe reader slow opening pdf files

first of all i know, i'm sorry, this sound like the classic silly question "my computer is slow this morning" but if you keep reading you may find out it's not. On 2 (identical) computer of my network (100+ computer) Adobe PDF Reader open pdf files…
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How do I open multiple documents in Adobe Reader X in tabbed form?

I have one PDF open and I want to open any other PDF's after that in a tab beside the first PDF. How do I do it? Also, How do I set it as a default function?
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What is AcroRd32 doing in explorer.exe?

At random Explorer will launch a thread which eats 50% of CPU. I've captured this stacktrace: Why is Acrobat PDF Reader reading my documents in the background? It seems like Explorer is scanning my documents? Have you experienced such behaviour?
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Zoom in fullscreen with Adobe Reader

Fullscreen mode in Adobe Reader 9 seems to have only one zoom level for the page. Is it possible to zoom in, zoom out, or fit the page width to monitor width?
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Can I install Adobe Reader X and still keep Reader 9 also?

I'd like to install Adobe Reader X but for various reasons I'm not quite ready to get rid of Reader 9 yet. Is it possible to install Reader X but avoid the automatic removal of Reader 9 in the process?
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Disable save changes dialoge in Adobe reader X

Yes, I've read and done the steps listed here with no results: Disable 'Save changes' dialog in Adobe Reader Basically what happens is with certain PDF documents, whenever I try to close them, it prompts me to save changes. This baffles me, as per…
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Acrobat reader equivalent of MS powerpoint Slide sorter view

How to view all pages of a PDF document in somekind of outline mode. I tried to get it going by --Clicking on Pages Menu(which is present on left side ) in Acrobat reader. Then enlarge that view by pulling its boundaries wide. Then Right click…
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Password protect adobe acrobat file

I found this video from adobe how to protect your document. I am using latest Adobe Acrobat Reader 9. Note I am trying to put password inside the reader itself. If I go to File > properties > security everything is simply disabled. If I go to…
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