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The 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
Like others have mentioned, Sumatra is one of a few Windows-only utilities that I routinely miss when on Mac or Linux, primarily due to two simple interactions which I miss every day viewing schematics, mechanical/technical drawings or datasheets -- Alt + Scroll == Zoom and Right Click + Drag == Pan. Does anyone know of any viewers on Mac or Linux that provide these two features? Skim on Mac implements Option + Scrol…
You can use Karabiner Elements + BetterTouchTool to rebind that when Skim is in the foreground?
Extremely good software. Always on my _bat-belt_. The author was one of the most active members of the old Business Of Software forums, IIRC. I always wondered how he could make money from a free PDF viewer.
Sumatra is one of the (few) win apps I miss since recently converting to linux. Running it under wine seems like overkill, but I wish for a debian port...
Qpdfview is my daily driver for reading documents on Linux. Supports tabs, search, highlighting. If you want something still more lightweight, Zathura would be the way to go. It can be a tad too minimalistic, but great for LaTeX with vimtex, and for an occasional quick document, the startup times are phenomenal.
But one thing I really hate with it is that if you rename a file while it's open, it'll stop displaying it. Not sure if this is related to zathura itself or to the backend I'm using (mupdf).
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/1365482/how-to-view-a-pdf-wi...
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?
1. Yes we all know how stupid this was. but they wanted fillable forms and validating those forms made sense at the time. Really it was because they were trying to compete with the web.
Sumatra is one of the (few) win apps I miss since recently converting to linux. Running it under wine seems like overkill, but I wish for a debian port...
Okular is really good and probably has more features than Sumatra; though I still run Sumatra in Windows.
I have the bad habit of keeping many PDF files in the reader open (yeah, I keep reading long books). The thing is when I open Sumatra for a new file (maybe only for a quick glance) Sumatra will reload all my files and slowed the startup significantly. I wish I can set the option which will load only if I’ve actually switched to the tab, just like Firefox.
RememberOpenedFiles = false
Like others have mentioned, Sumatra is one of a few Windows-only utilities that I routinely miss when on Mac or Linux, primarily due to two simple interactions which I miss every day viewing schematics, mechanical/technical drawings or datasheets -- Alt + Scroll == Zoom and Right Click + Drag == Pan. Does anyone know of any viewers on Mac or Linux that provide these two features? Skim on Mac implements Option + Scrol…
I 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.