acroread cursor in document

[Wolf]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 23:39 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I read a lot of documents using acroread in "reading mode".  (How many times
> can I get the word "read" in one sentence...)
> 
> Most of the time, I can use cursor-right (or space) and cursor-left to move
> back and forth through my document, page by page.  Quite infrequently, though,
> for reasons I've not yet figured out, I somehow get a cursor in my document and
> cursor-right and cursor-left just move that cursor right and left through the
> text on the page instead of moving me to the next/previous page as usual.
> 
> I haven't figured out either what causes that cursor to appear, or how to get
> rid of it once it does.  The only way I have found to get things back to normal
> is to close and re-open my document.
> 
> These are mostly PDF's that I create myself from OpenOffice or with CUPS-PDF.
> 
> What's going on and how can I make it stop?
> 
> -- 
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com
> 

In Adobe Reader, got to the TOOLS menu, then select 'Select &
Zoom' (This is using Version 8.xx) and choose the HAND TOOL. That allows
paging through the file with the left & right arrow keys..

Wolf