Default scrolling speed in PDF documents

Hello!

I am used to scroll through documents by just using the up and down arrow keys.
However, the scrolling speed of PDF documents is set way too slow for my liking(webarchive Documents scroll fine)
Currently I am just opening PDF-documents in Preview which scrolls a lot faster.

My request is to implement a slider which lets you set the default scrolling speed within PDF windows.

Best regards,
Reiner Staude

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Welcome @Amano
What is chosen in View > PDF Display and DEVONthink’s Settings > Files > Media?


I’m not seeing any particular scrolling issue. Choose Format > Hide Editing Bar and scroll. Any effect?

No, no effect.

Like I said, the scrolling speed is too slow for my liking.
Compare it with the scrolling in “Preview”. This runs a lot faster (or better said, with each key press several lines are skipped. In contrast to the scrolling in DT which runs up and down line by line)

With what keypress ? There isn’t a default behavior when people are scrolling through a document.

If I scroll a PDF by pressing and holding down the up or down arrow key there is a distinct difference in the scrolling “speed” in DEVONthink 3 vs Preview. (“Speed” is subjective and depends on the PDF.)

Using the trackpad is a better option in both cases.

(macOS 15.4b2 on an M3 Max MacBook Pro.)

Keypress = up or down arrow key

Sorry korm, I completely overlooked your post.

At least on my setup (I own a iMac 2017, so Ventura is end of the line for me) it is not subjective, scrolling in Preview really IS a lot faster (scrolling through an entire page at a specific zoom level, takes about 8 seconds in DT, in Preview the same page takes about 2 seconds)