Reviewing PDFs: Reports & Discovery

Quick Tip on Reviewing Report/Discovery PDFs

Acrobat Document Scrolling Settings:

Changing Acrobat so that documents are automatically set to Single Page Scrolling view as default

This isn't my typical forensics blog, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that reviews numerous pages of reports/discovery before performing a forensic examination. If you are not reviewing reports prior to an exam, how do you know what you are looking for?

I've always been annoyed by the default view in Acrobat. Trying to scroll through a PDF and having it jump to the next page when I'm still reading the previous page at the bottom. I seemed to waste time changing the Page Display setting under View for continuous scrolling. Not only does this make it easier to read, but it also makes scrolling through an OCR'd PDF faster. This is especially true when scrolling with a wheel-mouse, touchpad or on touchscreen computers. 

1.            Open Adobe Acrobat

2.            Go to Edit | Preferences

3.            Select Page Display in the left column and change Page Layout to Automatic

4.            Select Accessibility in the left column and change Always use Page Layout Style to
               Single Page Continuous