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Thank you Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans for solving the mystery behavior of the
PDF hand tool. Aggravation levels are significantly reduced!
I had written:
>> When I print to postscript and distill a FrameMaker (5.5) file to PDF,
both
>> the PDF editor (Exchange) & the reader (3.0 & 4.0) add an annoying bit of
>> functionality to the standard hand tool.
>>
>> A small black arrow displays on the back of the hand tool whenever the
hand
>> is within he margins of a page. Single-clicking zooms in. If you continue
to
>> single-click in the content area, you continue to zoom until you've
reached
>> the document's maximum zoom level. Then the mysterious hand functionality
>> will page down with each single-click.
"Eeyore" wrote:
> This is called "article following" or somesuch ... To turn it off, when
you
> are using the "Print" dialog to set up printing options:
>
> 1) Make sure "Generate Acrobat Data" is checked.
>
> 2) Select "Acrobat Setup..."
>
> 3) Uncheck "Articles:" in the "Acrobat Setup" dialog box.
>
> 4) Select "Set" to confirm those options.
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