No, I hate the little hand thingy too, but have mostly gotten used to it. More often than not, I use the arrow keys and page up and page down. I also use xpdf, which I don't remember being as annoying (though I'm not on my computer now, so I can't fire it up to remind myself).

Generally, the only reason I use .pdf is because it is smaller than .ps and you can't count on everyone being able to read .dvi :-?

I don't think that I find anything about .pdf annoying enough to bother with converting to HTML though.

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