I have been using Sumatra for years and my only issue is that it sometimes takes a _very_ long time to get it to start printing a complex document (at least on Windows). I still keep Adobe Reader around just for printing.
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Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#82Like 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'm in the same boat. It's almost the only application I miss! I use Okular but I think Sumatra just has the right UI for me.
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#83Wow, I just installed this for the first time and its performance blows both Adobe Reader (not an achievement) and Foxit (something of an achievement) out of the water! Nice work by these devs. And its install footprint is around 10% of those programs. What the hell is Adobe doing, I wonder, that makes their software so unbearably slow and painful to use?
Even more impressive is I believe it’s a solo dev. SumatraPDF is one of my go to examples of a great software project. Something to aspire to.
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#84A more accurate title would be:
SumatraPDF: multi-format reader for WindowsRe: SumatraPDF Reader
#85Sumatra is great, though occasionally I wish it were possible to have something like Firefox's wrapped scrolling [1] where more than 2 pages can be shown side by side. On a reasonably large monitor, being able to quickly zoom out to see e.g. 30 pages (sometimes all the pages of a journal article) at the same time can be very useful. You can be on p. 20, then go and quickly look up a definition on p.2, then frictionle…
Submit a patch?
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#86Wow, I just installed this for the first time and its performance blows both Adobe Reader (not an achievement) and Foxit (something of an achievement) out of the water! Nice work by these devs. And its install footprint is around 10% of those programs. What the hell is Adobe doing, I wonder, that makes their software so unbearably slow and painful to use?
> What the hell is Adobe doing
Maybe they're handling every posts feature wish list?
Like every comment so far here is Sumatra is nice but... is missing
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#87Like 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…
evince (linux) does Zoom with Ctrl + Scroll, maybe yours does too? I don't think it has Pan, but I'm keyboard-heavy and use horizontal scroll with Shift + Scroll.
Evince uses middle-click to pan
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#88Like 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 use qpdfview and I'm very happy. Loads of customisability.
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#89Like 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…
evince (linux) does Zoom with Ctrl + Scroll, maybe yours does too? I don't think it has Pan, but I'm keyboard-heavy and use horizontal scroll with Shift + Scroll.
Middle button and drag moves the text wherever you drag it.
The evince feature I can't live without is the find, which shows a side panel with all matches in the document along with a bit of context. I wish all document find everywhere did this.
Re: SumatraPDF Reader
#90I've been using Sumatra for what feels like a decade, and it's definitely the best PDF reader out there.
I mostly started using it for the auto-refresh when I'm working on a LaTeX document.