Zooming in on an InDesign document. Can it be smoother?

When I zoom in or out or even scroll around an ID document, it's fairly clunky. Like the clicks on a regular mouse wheel. Chunk, Chunk, Chunk. Is there a way to have smooth scrolling or smooth zoom in/out? Dang that would be nice.
OSX 10.8, IDCS 5.5

Hmm. Just opened an image in Photoshop and when zoomed in or scrolling it's still a little clunky but not as much as InDesign. I guess the smooth scrolling is when you hold down the space bar to grab it and move it around. I guess that's the same thing as getting the grabbing hand in ID. Anyway, regular smooth scrolling/zooming would be nice.

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