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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by scns »

arcanemachiner wrote: post #73
nickjj wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is very rare these days to have an application that is all of the following... Yep. On Windows there's: - IrfanView for image editing - foobar2000 for mp3s They've been on my "must have" install list for ~20 years. There's also Ditto for managing multiple clipboard entries. It's a good example of how a small open source tool with an optimized UI for 1 thing ends up being 100x better than the same feature MS trie…

For me the killer audio player was Winamp. I could hide the window and control everything via keyboard shortcuts. It was the perfect program: completely invisible and yet completely functional.

Was because you left Windows? Development picked up again.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by mkl »

chafporte wrote: post #78
kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

please add viewing of 2 pages side by side.

Ctrl-7 (Facing) or Ctrl-8 (Book view), depending on whether you want the first page to be by itself (book view). You should probably have a look through the menus to see what it can do before complaining.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by mNovak »

ColonelPhantom wrote: post #57
nickjj wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It is very rare these days to have an application that is all of the following... Yep. On Windows there's: - IrfanView for image editing - foobar2000 for mp3s They've been on my "must have" install list for ~20 years. There's also Ditto for managing multiple clipboard entries. It's a good example of how a small open source tool with an optimized UI for 1 thing ends up being 100x better than the same feature MS trie…

7-zip has already been mentioned, but I want to mention Notepad++. It's not as featureful as a full-on IDE or most modern extensible text editors, but it's fast and has a simple classic UI. When I just want to edit a basic text file I tend to use N++, as long as I'm on Windows and I don't want to boot up VSCode, let alone a full IDE.

I use N++ everyday and do love it; though I recently found out that it completely freezes trying to open modest sized single-line json (couple MB), which made me sad.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by mnsc »

kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

As an avid notepad2 user, thank you!

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by atlantic »

kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

I just want to stop by and say thanks. Many years ago, I was desperately looking for alternatives to AdobePDF, the unmentioned elephant in the room. I found your software, and never looked back. It was small, fast, and uncluttered. And it still is.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by chasil »

kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

Some of our exotic engineering PDFs have attachments. When we converted to Edge, it was quickly discovered that these were no longer accessible.

I tried PDF.js, and it worked, but we ended up picking the very worst and most insecure PDF viewer that exists. Guess who that is?

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by irq-1 »

mNovak wrote: post #123
ColonelPhantom wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

7-zip has already been mentioned, but I want to mention Notepad++. It's not as featureful as a full-on IDE or most modern extensible text editors, but it's fast and has a simple classic UI. When I just want to edit a basic text file I tend to use N++, as long as I'm on Windows and I don't want to boot up VSCode, let alone a full IDE.

I use N++ everyday and do love it; though I recently found out that it completely freezes trying to open modest sized single-line json (couple MB), which made me sad.

Open it as plain text. It does the same thing trying to highlight large XML files.

There is also a plugin to reformat JSON.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by nigrioid »

kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

I love SumatraPDF but I want the colored toolbar icons back.

Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app (2021)

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Post by Macha »

anta40 wrote: post #66
kjksf wrote: post #60

SumatraPDF author here. Glad people like the software for the reasons I thought the would (small, fast). If you haven't already: use Ctrl + K (Command Palette), a better way to operate the program than menus etc. Also I'll plug my latest project: I "ported" notepad2 to web: https://onlinetool.io/notepad2/ It's 85% done i.e. some functions are not implemented. On Chrome / Edge it can even read / write files from your…

I rarely use SumatraPDF because I often switch Mac-Windows. That said, I certainly appreciate small fast software, e.g uTorrent. It's small because it's Windows only, and very likely avoid cross platform libs and rewrite everything on their own. For writing personal project, I agree cross platform my be over-rated. Just stick to your favorite platform. Make it works and optimized.

I guess you're talking the uTorrent of over a decade ago? Even on Windows I ditched it for deluge some time ago.
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