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Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by rizky05 »

whizzter wrote: post #115
zerr wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The problem is that Gtk is ugly, Qt is extremely bloated and WxWidgets barely works. Seems like the author didn't look at cross-platform toolkits since 90s.

Honestly, this is a guy who uses GDI, so most of the above options will feel bloated already when looking at the source tarball sizes. That said, has there been any fundamentally groundbreaking crossplatform classic UI toolkits released since the 90s? (IMGui is the only one that has seemed interesting but that's specialized and not a general one really)

There are plethora of cross-platform UI toolkit, each have their own philosophy. IMO, current popular toolkit have declarative aspect in it. Believe or not the most mature UI toolkit is the one built for chromium. It just works everywhere.

EDIT: Another commenter suggest only office as example. IIRC, they are building it using chromium as front-end and .NET as backend.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by guilamu »

psnehanshu wrote: post #122

Great app, but never tried it. I am wondering why people just don't use Chrome or Firefox or Edge as their PDF reader?

Maybe it's just me, but they all happen to have issues when printing. No idea why or if it has been fixed recently, but I never had this kind of issue with Sumatra or Acrobat obviously.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by nip »

Mengkudulangsat wrote: post #42
sammy2255 wrote: post #33

Love SumatraPdf, completely no-bs software unlike Adobe. If I ever need to sign a PDF Microsoft Edge works wonderfully

I still need Adobe to sign and fill forms. Wish Sumatra can do those too :(

No need for Adobe: https://simplePDF.eu

Disclosure: I’m the developer behind it

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by teleforce »

fithisux wrote: post #114
teleforce wrote: post #103

Is there any open source seamless PDF editor available given how pervasive is the PDF document nowadays? I really think that we need one and it has been long overdue. What I meant by seamless is that all of the open source software that currently able to edit PDF document is dong it in a clunky way at best for example Krita and LibreOffice Draw. The resulting edited output document also is also looks distinct, in a b…

The spec is very complex. there are some, here and there but nothing coherent. Even worse PDF is not "open source", it should have been accompanied by LaTeX source.

The PDF is now standardized as ISO 32000, it's open for everyone to create compatible tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by Helmut10001 »

SumatraPDF is among the OSS PDF tools I use.

Since Adobe is pushing a more aggressive stance for monetization of Acrobat, I am trying to replace selected PDF workflows with OSS. Here are some of the tools I use.

    qpdf
        removing passwords, unlocking PDFs, conversion
        install in WSL with apt-get install qpdf
        remove password with qpdf --decrypt --password="" input.pdf output.pdf
    PDF4QT - Open Source PDF Editing
        Deleting, Sorting, Extracting Pages
        Currently, no choco release available, must be installed manually from PDF4QT/releases
    Inkscape, LibreOffice Draw
        editing PDFs, adding text
    Mupdf
        Command line tool and Python package for parsing, filling forms, adding text
    SumatraPDF
        Viewing of PDFs
    pdfplumber
        Awesome python package to extract tables from PDFs into data pipelines. Use with Jupyter Lab

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by rtpg »

It's kinda frustrating how by default, most major OS setups now are "open PDFs inside the browser". It's kinda nice that browsers can handle PDFs smooth-ish now, but Preview on Mac is nice, and SumatraPDF is as well.
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