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SumatraPDF Reader

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Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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post #2

Stopped 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...

You can always submit a PR to implement the feature you want. Maybe showing the author what you want via PR is the best way to explain what you are asking for.

You can even fork it for your own use.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

#22
What's the SumatraPDF for Android?

It used to be Repligo, but it got removed from the Play store ages ago. I still had access to it, but since it wasn't being maintained, it became harder to use with each android os update.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

#25
post #11

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.

I use preview all day, every day, often with dozens of files open, including full scans of the full OED (each pdf 100s of MB). It occasionally will hang when I "print to PDF" with a large document, but other than that no issues to report for a couple years now on M1 and M2.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

#26
post #24

Bless the heart of whoever looked at the PDF spec and said to themselves, "Nice, I'd like to writer a parser for this."

No joke. Yesterday I found out PDFs can have forms with JavaScript. https://tcpdf.org/examples/example_014/ How does this even work?

because some viewers have built in javascript interpreters. In the pdf it's just text labelled as a script

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

#29

Probably one of the only bits of software I miss from when I ran Windows.

Agreed. SumatraPDF is still one of my favourite programs, and I wish there was a Linux PDF reader which approached it. (Okular is probably the best, but it can’t remember opened tabs.)

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

#30

What's the SumatraPDF for Android? It used to be Repligo, but it got removed from the Play store ages ago. I still had access to it, but since it wasn't being maintained, it became harder to use with each android os update.

I use MuPDF, which SumatraPDF is built on top of, I think. It is extremely no-frills, but it does the job.
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