STDU Viewer v1.6.205 Updated
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- Suggested by joby_toss
STDU Viewer is a text/graphics viewer, primarily focused on scientific and technical documentation like TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2. The program also supports a wide variety of other formats including FB2, TXT, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, DCX and image (BMP, PCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PSD) files.
Additionally, the program can convert DjVu and PDF files to image files (GIF, PNG, etc.)
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| System Requirements: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | GDIPLUS.DLL only on Windows 2000 |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Freeware for private or educational use -- commercial users must register. |
| How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch STDUViewerApp.exe. |
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7 comments on STDU Viewer
Transcontinental
2010-12-31 09:08
I entirely agree with MarkB's comment, in particular regarding PDF-XChange Viewer which is, IMO, the best pdf reader available. As for this STDU Viewer I had been a bit disapointed with the font rendering quality of pdf files, but that was in far previous version, no idea yet if it has been enhanced.
freakazoid
2011-09-09 18:29
Had to defavorite this. Runs very slow on Windows 7. Sticking to PDF XChange Viewer.
V1.5.621
outskirter
2011-12-08 04:00
I'm using STDUViewer on Windows 7 and find it very useful, especially for reading eBooks in TXT format, as the app keeps my place for me and reopens files exactly where I left off.
It renders PDF files and JPEG images very well, too. However, be careful with the built-in file browser if you browse a folder with a lot of images, because the app creates a large cache in the program folder, and this takes quite some time to complete. If you try to select something or change folders while the cache is being created, the app can crash. Using the file open dialogue instead solves the problem, and still gives you previews, so the browser isn't really necessary.
At first I had trouble assigning shortcut keys, but after seeing tproli's comment above about language files, I looked for them in my installation. The languages are actually dealt with in a single file, STDUViewerResource.xml, which contains Russian, English and French versions of the menus, etc. The configuration file, STDUViewerSetting.xml, came with no language selected (Language ID=""), and once I specified English by editing it to read Language ID="en", I was able to assign shortcuts.
This is now my default PDF reader, replacing PDF-XChange.
V1.6.66
avoidz
2012-06-06 15:22
Not bad. Although SumatraPDF seems to render pages better (at least on my system) in a direct comparison.
V1.6.160
Mark-B
2012-06-19 21:55
STDU Viewer is much more than a PDF viewer. It supports TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2, WWF document formats as well as FB2, TXT, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX and image (BMP, PCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PSD) files. It's an excellent e-book reader.
V1.6.171
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A good PDF viewer with does not make heavy demands on the computer resources. Users can delete components (dll files) if they don't need the image, djvu, xps, jbig2 etc. viewing capabilities. Settings are written to an XML file in the program folder. If you want more tools (plus a payware ad) try PDF-XChange Viewer, else this program may be an excellent alternative.
Who needs Acrobat's bloated PDF viewer?