Sumatra PDF V1.0.1    Suggested by Darkbee - Updated by Checker on 1 Dec 2009 1MB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (3362) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (12) - Post comment - Permalink

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 Moroni: It may starts up very fast, but it is really slow when opening PDF documents. Its redering engine is about 5 times slower than Foxit Reader [http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1041] [2007-02-28 13:10]

 a: nice and simple, wish it has basic features such as select, select all, copy, ect and a mdi interface or tabs or multiple viewing. i havent seen any other opensource, and really small pdf viewers. [2007-03-22 13:12]

 nutri-yo: If I put it in my Program Files folder, it'll create a SumatraPDF folder in My Documents and Settings folder.
If I put it in My Documents folder it will not. [2007-03-22 20:20]

 granny: buggy beta.
A Word doc I converted to pdf with PDF995 crashes Sumatra if I open it from Explorer, but opens fine if I use Sumatra's menu File Open. Another larger doc converted the same way gives no problems at all.
The problem doc when converted with OpenOffice gives no problems at all.
Possibly something to do with using GhostScript in PDF995 ???
Hope they get the bugs out, its wonderfully small. [2007-03-22 20:52]

 Pek: Fast, simple, usefull, but missing search option. [2007-03-23 02:12]

 Thorsten: Regarding some old posts above: The new version 0.8 is as fast as it probably can get - and supports searching, selecting and copying text to the clipboard (no "select all" function, though). It's a bit tricky to find, however: To mark text, left-click and drag while keeping CTRL pressed.

It copies everything covered by the yellow area, regardless of words or lines, so you'll have to carefully avoid getting to close to characters you don't want to be copied.

Also, when you paste the copied text, there's always a line-break at the end. (I don't know if this is a bug or intended behavior.) Quite rarely, search won't find text even though it's there.

Other than that, everything works fine. It has never crashed for me, either.

Despite the description above, the zip-version available from the website is indeed not fully portable, it does write settings in Documents and Settings. If you can't live with that, wait until John Haller updates his fully-portable version at http://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable [2008-01-14 06:38]

 MadArtists: I love this SO much. Perfect for people who don't use PDF all the time and/or don't need a lot of functions. Small, fast and
friendly. I'm so glad to be free of Adobe. I've haved Foxit in the past too, but I like this much better. [2008-05-18 17:41]

 Lyx: This would be a wonderful replacement for other PDF-Viewers, if it weren't that the app is missing one feature which almost any other app has by default: Remembering your viewing-settings. Well yes, 0.8.1 now remembers SOME of those settings, but still not all - for example, i want my PDFs to open in a maximized window, but sumatry wont remember that - it will always open files in a small window and i therefore always have to maximize the window manually. This may sound trivial, but its the kind of features which you normally dont notice anymore because you asume them to be normal - you only miss then when you get an app which lacks them. [2008-06-09 03:24]

 MADSTEINKOLLEN: its a simple ... but very slow to start ... for practically i think its use full for people who dont need pdf anytime [2008-06-19 20:35]

 Webfork: Although it has simplicity and reliability on its side (have been using constantly for months), Foxit (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1041) handles printing of dramatically better, has more features, and is more intuitive, though it is mild nagware. [2008-08-02 23:08]

 dianoga: Can Sumatra 0.9.3 show sticky notes and other annotations to the original PDF? For some reason they do not show up. [2008-12-04 20:00]

 Lyx: Updated comment from me for version 1.0: I have no issues with this app anymore. It no longer writes settings outside the app folder, remembers viewing-settings correctly, doesn\\'t crash anymore here, and just basically does anything i\\'d want of a simple lightweight PDF-Viewer. [2009-11-17 23:15]

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