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Auto-scroll your PDFs to avoid mouse scrolling

The brilliant PDFgear (www.pdfgear.com) that you featured in Issue 656 (page 18) has instantly become my new favourite program. One tool in the program you didn’t mention was the clever Auto Scroll, which moves the PDF up and down at different speeds.

Once you’ve dragged a PDF into the program, click the Auto Scroll dropdown menu and select a speed (see screenshot ):4 is the fastest scrolling down, while -4 is the fastest scrolling up. I find that a steady 2 is just right for my reading speed. It means

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