SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer

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Zach Thibeau
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As did I

#16 Post by Zach Thibeau »

As did I except already I made 3 versions from version 1.0.0.0 to 1.0.0.2
you can find them here
and I released mine just before John did

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SumatraPDFPortable (PortableAppsWorld.com Release)

#17 Post by Zach Thibeau »

This is my own SumatraPDFPortable for portableappsworld.com. what it does is it sets preset settings to keep it portable unlike the installer version where it's set for default for pdf files and it makes a backup of those settings and moves it to Data\Settings folder

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#18 Post by AlephX »

Added the link to Sumatra PDF Viewer entry in the Database.

Thanks a lot for the information and for the work! :D

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SumatraPDF

#19 Post by Dani_Baroni »

Hi everyone,
Well, I couldn't figure out how to post a comment where SumatraPDF is located & I did Login.
Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who dl's an app & reports bugs right away
b4 I dl the app. I usually look to see where bugs are posted & then I make my decision about dl'ing the new update or not and/or new version.

Hope these links help all of you b4 dl'ing SumatraPDF 2.3
https://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/issues/list
http://forums.fofou.org/sumatrapdf/

I've been using this app for a long time & it's awesome but, authors are human too & it is a known fact that humans make errors.
We all need to accept that fact & K.K. & his team are very on top of correcting the errors.
What more can we ask for in a app that's free & without any nasties?

I'm a happy freeware camper. What about all of you?

Have a great day all,
Dani

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Re: SumatraPDF

#20 Post by Mike.S.G. »

The crash could be related to the change in v2.3, it wont run on non-SSE2 processors, and will crash straight-away.
downside: this release no longer supports very old processors without SSE2 instructions. Using SSE2 makes Sumatra faster. If you have an old computer without SSE2, you need to use 2.2.1.
... http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... /news.html

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#21 Post by Mike.S.G. »

v2.3.1 has been released - http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... iewer.html

The should fix any crashes on non-SSE2 CPUs.
2.3.1 (2013-05-23)

Changes in this release:

... no longer using SSE2 to support old computers
Don't forget to experiment with the settings: Settings - Advanced Options.

The link for help is found at the top of the text file that will open ... http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... tings.html

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Re: Sumatra PDF viewer

#22 Post by Midas »

Very old topic update: OSS Sumatra PDF is one of the best lightweight and portable PDF viewers but it doesn't have an official forum topic here at TPFC (the original submission topic was made by user Zach Thibeau, at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=1503, but now has a misleading title, because Sumatra PDF is natively portable since at least v0.4); the present post is intended to remedy that situation by turning this topic (started by user Darkbee, who's in fact Sumatra PDF's author) into the official one... :)
  • http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ author wrote:Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority.
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Download current version (v2.4) from http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... iewer.html.

Regarding Sumatra PDF customization, see http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sum ... gs2.4.html; take note of user Ennovy comment (and following...) at http://www.portablefreeware.com/index.p ... mment22178.

It should also be noted that above download link is for a 32 bit version only; in an age of 64 bit OSes, the author has substantive reasons for not providing a 64 bit version -- and you can read them at http://code.google.com/p/sumatrapdf/wik ... 4bitBuilds.

Notwithstanding, other people have compiled binaries for x86_64 Windows platforms.

Xhmikosr has a page with bleeding edge 64 bit builds of Sumatra PDF at http://xhmikosr.1f0.de/sumatrapdf/.
  • http://xhmikosr.1f0.de/sumatrapdf/Info.md author wrote:These are vanilla builds from Sumatra PDF's trunk. [...] Nothing is modified except for the building flags, which will produce faster executables. See an old benchmark here, though it's been some time since I did it so the improvement probably won't be the same: http://tinyurl.com/cqzrx79. The x64 builds are faster, mostly around 10-20%. The x64 installer build cannot be installed at the same time as the x86 build. So use one of the two. The x64 plugins are for 64bit systems so don't expect the 64bit browser plugin to work with a 32bit browser. On the other hand, you will see previews of PDF files on 64bit Windows.
Dirk Paehl (author of GUIPDFTK, among other programs) also makes 64 bit Sumatra PDF compiles available for download from http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?SumatraPDF.

Nikkhokkho (of FileOptimizer fame) also offers his somewhat outdated SumatraPDFOpt (previously mentioned at http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 951#p57951) at http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/stati ... atraPDFOpt.
  • http://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.net/static.php?page=SumatraPDFOpt author wrote:I am compiling Sumatra PDF from the original sources, to make freely available my optimized compiles. I am not modifying original code, but applying a different build chain to gather a better executable, in terms of native x64 support as well as regular x86; faster execution speed; smaller executable size; and lower memory footprint. Of course, the rest of features, should be exactly the same as in official Sumatra PDF. To prevent any possible confusion, my releases are groupped under the SumatraPDFOpt name, as an acronym of "SumatraPDF x86/x64 Optimized Builds".

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Midas wrote:Very old topic update: OSS Sumatra PDF is one of the best lightweight and portable PDF viewers but it doesn't have an official forum topic here
Thanks -- good idea. I've been using Sumatra more often of late.
Midas wrote:x64
Is there much of a performance issue with 32-bit Sumatra that the 64-bit ones fix?

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#24 Post by I am Baas »

Midas wrote:started by user Darkbee, who's in fact Sumatra PDF's author
...Not.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 3892#p3892 :wink:

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webfork wrote:Is there much of a performance issue with 32-bit Sumatra that the 64-bit ones fix?
It's not really worth it for this type of application, plus the author makes some valid points as well.

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Re: Sumatra PDF viewer

#26 Post by Midas »

I am Baas wrote:
Midas wrote:started by user Darkbee, who's in fact Sumatra PDF's author
...Not.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 3892#p3892 :wink:
I stand corrected -- that's why I like it here, no slip goes unpunished... :twisted:

As for x86_64, the mere existence of several compilers proves there's a market for it -- I don't really know, I have regressed to 32 bit XP for the time being.

OTOH, with it being OSS and in the long run, having more people messing with the code, even if only to put out proofs-of-concept, does improve Sumatra PDF's survivability prospects, doesn't it?

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Midas wrote:does improve Sumatra PDF's survivability prospects, doesn't it?
Probably. As far as someone else being able to take over the project if the author walked away? I don't know that compiling for 64-bit really indicates that, but it does show that folks are looking at the code and that's a step.

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Re: Sumatra PDF viewer

#28 Post by Midas »

webfork wrote:As far as someone else being able to take over the project if the author walked away?
  • Or, as it happens more frequently, gradually looses interest and stops updating. Having code fit for more current systems makes a project more likely to get adopted, IMHO. :)

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Midas wrote:OTOH, with it being OSS and in the long run, having more people messing with the code, even if only to put out proofs-of-concept, does improve Sumatra PDF's survivability prospects, doesn't it?
No. This is such a misconception people have with open source software that more people with jump on board and help with development. I used to think like this, until I realised myself that it's just a false sense of security.

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Midas wrote:OTOH, with it being OSS and in the long run, having more people messing with the code, even if only to put out proofs-of-concept, does improve Sumatra PDF's survivability prospects, doesn't it?
I wrote up something on this and then forgot about it ...

The best real-world comparison I could come up with is building techniques for some sort of monument. If you are working on something you don't know you'll be able to finish, you want to make sure your techniques are available and understood so that someone can pick it back up. There are many different buildings that took generations to build (several gothic churches in Europe come to mind) so everyone needed to be on the same page about what was being built and how.

I would think that people who were close to the project and actively looking at what you're doing are more familiar and can start building. I'd definitely say that all the variants and tweaks of the webkit browsers says something about the success of that code base. That said, someone recompiling a program for a different platform isn't exactly the same as looking carefully at the code.

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