Preview.app
Am I the only person who has Preview.app constantly hang and/or freeze my Mac, even on the smallest of PDFs (I’m on M1 with latest macOS.
SumatraPDF Reader
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#12I love SumatraPDF. I've used it for years and it is wonderful. I have been writing Latex in vim and I compile with the document open in sumatra side by side for instant updates. Very smooth workflow with the instant reload of the page.
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#13Stopped using cause the author can't comprehend that scrolling / scrollbars could apply to document as a whole (like every other editor/viewer ever allows). https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/display-scrollbar-in-si...
Hmm? I don't think "every other editor/viewer ever" does this. Okular doesn't do this for example, I just checked: If I use "Fit Page" and uncheck "Continous", the vertical scrollbar disappears.
I'd also find it confusing, because it seems like that means if you zoom in, the scrollbar would be for the current page, but then if you zoom out, it would be for the entire document. Is that how other viewers actually work, or is it more elaborate than that?
Obviously this isn't a model interaction with an open source project either way. Although I don't think how they responded was ideal, I don't think I would've enjoyed communicating with you on that thread if I were the maintainer, either. Nobody's perfect, but all in all, I'd hope you agree that this has thusfar not been very productive on either side.
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#14Stopped using cause the author can't comprehend that scrolling / scrollbars could apply to document as a whole (like every other editor/viewer ever allows). https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/display-scrollbar-in-si...
He does, document level scrolling is the default behavior? Link looks like someone put it in a non-default view mode and doesn't like the specifics of how that mode works.
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#15Stopped using cause the author can't comprehend that scrolling / scrollbars could apply to document as a whole (like every other editor/viewer ever allows). https://forum.sumatrapdfreader.org/t/display-scrollbar-in-si...
Which of the comments in that thread are by the author?
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#16Preview.app Am I the only person who has Preview.app constantly hang and/or freeze my Mac, even on the smallest of PDFs ( I’m on M1 with latest macOS.
Preview also supports reloading the PDF on changes so you can have a similar workflow to Sumatra:
open - edit - reload - edit - reload - edit - Preview crashes - reopen - edit - reloads - edit - Preview crashes etc.
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#17I adore Sumatra. I have used it for decades. Used to run it on my Windows 95 laptop even :) Super fast. Just. Works. Rarely have any issues with it.
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#18The big update of SumatraPDF was out yesterday [1]. There are a lot of bugs fix and improvement in the backlog [2].
[1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/...
[2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/3672
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#19I love SumatraPDF. I've used it for years and it is wonderful. I have been writing Latex in vim and I compile with the document open in sumatra side by side for instant updates. Very smooth workflow with the instant reload of the page.
Yep. An obligatory hat tip to lervag — his vimtex plugin* is a beast.
*Which you are most likely using, since it integrates with Sumatra out of the box. And with MuPDF. And Skim, etc. It's cool like that.
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#20Using it for windows, good and lightweight, much more convenient than Adobe for basic usage. But I wish that I was able to ”drag and open in new window” tabs of different opened PDF files. But I must say that skim for Mac is the best!
You mean "ability to drag out a tab to open it in new window"?
If so, you can do in latest update [1]
[1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/...