Make Adobe Reader 7 for Linux Stop Flashing!

I like the fact that Adobe finally has updated its PDF reader for Linux, after possibly a decade of no development whatsoever. Way to go guys! Oh, and by the way, the scroll wheel on the mouse still doesn’t %$&*ing work!!

Ahem. Anyway, the default behavior when you move a page, either by scrolling or by using the “hand-grabber” mouse cursor, seems to be to completely redraw the whole page. It’s annoying. If you move the page even a few pixels, the page will keep redrawing and strobing.

To fix this, first recover from your epileptic fit. Then in Adobe Reader 7, go to Edit->Preferences->Startup. Select “Use page cache”. This will fix the issue. It probably uses more memory, but at least you won’t be having fits on the floor from the strobing display of your pdf file.