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Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by elashri »

hu3 wrote: post #53
viraptor wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope I can amuse you further: PDF embedded 3d models https://helpx.adobe.com/mt/acrobat/using/displaying-3d-model... and interaction https://www.astrobetter.com/blog/2012/03/07/tutorial-for-emb... You can also do animated page transitions like PowerPoint, but I don't have the right link available...

You did amuse me! Thanks! To me this is the kind of scope creep that causes a "simple" PDF renderer department to end up with 50 devs working in it full-time. I wonder... can a PDF have an iframe that opens itself? Causing an infinie loop of it loading itself?

That's a nice idea. Can we call that PDF bomb?

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by bronlund »

I got a love/hate relationship with PDF readers, and I find myself constantly switching from one to the other in hope of a better experience. All I want is to set my own exact colors and to use a hand-tool if I so wish. You wouldn't think that such simple wants should be an issue or, if what you did was making PDF-readers, that it may cross your mind to implement one or two of those.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by baal80spam »

hu3 wrote: post #24
user3939382 wrote: post #23

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?

I remember someone wrote a game in a PDF document...

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by dagw »

ivraatiems wrote: post #79

Wow, 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

Probably supporting 100% of the PDF spec. plus addressing all those obscure feature requests that 6 companies in this one very niche industry really really need. Sumatra is fantastic and basically the only PDF reader I use on Windows, but it does have maybe 10% of the features Adobe acrobat has. It is however the 10% that that basically everybody needs.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by CodeCompost »

ivraatiems wrote: post #79

Wow, 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?

I got burned by Foxit when they started shipping spyware with it, so I'm hesitant now to try anything else.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by HKH2 »

Ghostt8117 wrote: post #12

I 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.

Atril automatically reloads too.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by HKH2 »

anjel wrote: post #32

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...

I'm a Sumatra user when I'm forced to use Windows. Atril might be a bit feature-light for you, but it is stable and fast.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by HKH2 »

lazycouchpotato wrote: post #52

I haven't really felt the need for a dedicated PDF reader ever since Firefox upped their PDF support. It works pretty well and recently added support for form filling, text box and drawing [1]. SumatraPDF does support other file formats, which is nice. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/pdf-editor/

Is there a dual page view? Can you change whether the first page is left or right?

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by globular-toast »

Semaphor wrote: post #72
pixelpoet wrote: post #6

What's super handy about SumatraPDF is that it will auto reload normal image files if they're modified, so it's an easy way to get some sort of windowed graphics output by saving image files.

Not just images. Whole PDFs as well. I do some PDF generation for work, and running the update command and instantly seeing the changes when it’s done, is great.

Yep. Pretty standard workflow when using LaTeX or something.
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