Make Pan Tool Pan Again
A number of people continue to think it's a "bug" rather than a "feature" that the pan tool selects images & text by default in Acrobat DC. And they ought to be right, this is not a desirable feature for a pan tool, vice a select tool. In fact, it's why you have a select tool in the first place: to select images & text.
Pan tools PAN, as allow you to navigate through the document by clicking & dragging. This feature is literally defeated by having it select images and text when you click & drag. As such, it would be to the benefit of all users if you defaulted the option "Make Hand Tool Select Text & Images" to "off", rather than "on".
I'd be willing to bet that if you pushed this out in an update, you'd have precisely no one turn it on.
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Michael Cleary commented
I still see this problem, in Acrobat Pro Continuous Release I Version 2023.003.20244 I 64-bit
Please fix this; it's been 4 years since it was reported.
Edit: I just discovered the behavior is more complicated. Sometimes the hand tool moves the page. Sometimes it changes to a vertical bar (when over OCR'd text). And sometimes it will select text as showed in my photo of my screen (attached).
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Ravi Gupta
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Hi,
Thanks for reaching out.
Can you please share the build number you are using?
Also, please share the screen capture video for the issue to enable us help you better.Thanks,
-Ravi Gupta
