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I've never used LaTeX before, but a few months ago I decided to write my thesis report in LaTeX, so I'm pretty new to it.

I am using MiKTeX on Windows 7, and pdflatex as typesetting engine. The thing that is bugging me is that pdflatex flips page when scrolling. I would really like to have it continuously "flipped" i.e. scrolling down the document as one whole column. I've searched the web and this forum without finding a solution (of course I've looked in pdflatex as well). Maybe I'm just missing out some simple preferences in pdflatex page somewhere?

I can fix this for preview in my regular PDF viewer (Adobe Reader) by using the hyperref package and \hypersetup command, like this:

\usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
  pdfpagelayout={OneColumn}}

Unfortunately this doesn't help me since it's pdflatex I'm using to quickly see the outcome of the code and I'm typesetting pretty often. Perhaps there's a better PDF previewer that is as fast and simple as pdflatex?

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Lurch
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    Welcome to TeX.sx! It's not possible to have the document shown as a continuous scroll; the typesetting engine splits it into pages, because that's how you will have your document. Moreover, the engine is limited as far as lengths are concerned; you can get one scroll for some (actually several) pages, but the maximum length is about 6 meters. – egreg Jan 07 '13 at 17:51
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    If I understand your inquiry correctly, you're looking to change the settings on your pdf viewer so that the display scrolls smoothly from page to page rather than jumping discretely. This is a setting governed by the pdf viewer you use. In Adobe Acrobat (and Adobe Reader as well, in all likelihood), you'd go to "View" -> "Page Display" and then click on "Enable Scrolling". The appropriate commands for other pdf viewers will differ, of course. Incidentally, pdflatex is not a pdf previewer, but only the program that generates the pdf file. – Mico Jan 07 '13 at 17:53
  • Just to add to Mico's "pdflatex is not a pdf previewer, its an engine to generate pdf". you can read the more tug.org – texenthusiast Jan 07 '13 at 18:05
  • @egreg: I thought that since Adobe Reader can show the document with smooth scrolling, so could the TeXworks previewer (or any pdf viewer). – Lurch Jan 07 '13 at 23:41
  • @Mico: That's exactly what I've done in Adobe Reader, so I'm looking for a previewer that can do that, that will pop-up like the TeXworks previewer, when I click "Typeset".... – Lurch Jan 07 '13 at 23:43
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    @LarsBjörnsson Sorry for having misunderstood your question. But you didn't mention TeXworks, which is a rather basic front-end to the TeX system, and its PDF previewer has a very minimal set of features (the whole design of TeXworks is minimalistic, one should say). You can look at TeXStudio instead: http://texstudio.sourceforge.net/ – egreg Jan 07 '13 at 23:43
  • @egreg: I realize that I mislead some of you, since I was obviously confused myself with the actual names of the stuff :) The minimalistic design of Texworks compiler-viewer solution suits my way of working very well, since I like to look at the results while I'm typing. – Lurch Jan 08 '13 at 00:16
  • @LarsBjörnsson Another Alternative is Texmaker 3.5.2 – texenthusiast Jan 08 '13 at 00:16

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I suppose you use TeXworks editor, which really shows pages SinglePage whatever you do. It is the property of its PDF preview and it cannot be changed.

The pdfpagelayout setting is aimed mostly on Acrobat (Reader).

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