Do not use "Genius PDF"

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Do not use "Genius PDF"

#1 Post by webfork »

[Edit: I formerly was encouraging the use of this program until procyon did some digging. I'll be a bit more paranoid from now on.]

Short version: just use Sumatra. Genius PDF is looking like a scam.

Longer version: It looks like they're just rebranding Sumatra, not distributing the source, and then collecting donations. This is not a fork as no changes have been made apart from putting a new name on it.

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Re: Genius PDF

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@webfork

Uniextract the installer. Settings are saved to application folder (GeniusPDF-settings.txt).

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Re: Genius PDF

#3 Post by procyon »

webfork wrote: [...]
as well as being GPL'd.
[...]
I can find the license in the package and the EULA on their website but i can't find a link to the source code.
Searching for the source code, i found this topic : http://forums.fofou.org/sumatrapdf/topic?id=3183767 .

There is a mention "Credits SumatraPDF" in their About dialog but nothing more.

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#4 Post by tproli »

I like it. Light and simple. I have an epub file that STDU Viewer was not able to open but Genius PDF could.

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#5 Post by webfork »

procyon wrote:There is a mention "Credits SumatraPDF" in their About dialog but nothing more.
Thanks for the info. I wish I'd seen this for what it was initially, but now I can hopefully help point people away from it.

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#6 Post by tproli »

I don't like it then :)

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Re: Do not use "Genius PDF"

#7 Post by Napiophelios »

I have been using PDFLite for awhile
Its based on Sumatra too but they are very upfront about its origins.
It claims to be able to convert any document or image to a PDF file,
but I havent tried it.

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#8 Post by JohnTHaller »

PDFLite seems like it was originally just a rebranding of Sumatra PDF to PDFLite to bundle in InstallIQ to make some money. They later added RedMon+Ghostscript, also rebranded as PDFLite, as a driver-based print-to-PDF option. The current download doesn't seem to include InstallIQ. Note that PDFLite isn't portable other than the base PDFLite exe which is just Sumatra PDF rebranded.
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