From what I can see, he's a great team player.
Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
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Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#12I have been using SumatraPDF on Windows for a long time. After opening a PDF file with it for the first time, I never went back to Adobe Reader. SumatraPDF is much faster, cleaner and less memory hungry.
My comment is bound to be redundant in this thread, but so have I. SumatraPDF is an excellent piece of software that has made life for countless people easier and without them having to pay anything in exchange.
It's as simple as it gets (with a UI), it's fast, robust and reliable. I wish governments would set aside some generous budgets for this type of projects that are consistently useful and reliable, like they do for arts and education (well, some governments).
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#13Sumatra, alongside maybe Everything and IrfanView, is my favorite piece of software on windows. Incredible speed, great customizability and awesome compatibility.
I really missed it when I made the switch to Linux, but not enough to consider installing WINE. Still, absolutely wonderful project deserving of the highest praise.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#14I still install Sumatra PDF on every Windows PC I have to work on. It's a habit I've kept from the days when Acrobat Reader took like 30 seconds to start.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#15Does anyone know why it's never possible to just transfer money, but they ask for patreon or paypal? I live in the EU and as far as I know its super cheap to send money into a bank account. At least cheaper than what I suppose is patreon's cut.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#16I have been using SumatraPDF on Windows for a long time. After opening a PDF file with it for the first time, I never went back to Adobe Reader. SumatraPDF is much faster, cleaner and less memory hungry.
I agree 100%, it is awesome. Also, it remembers the position in a file.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#17Does anyone know why it's never possible to just transfer money, but they ask for patreon or paypal? I live in the EU and as far as I know its super cheap to send money into a bank account. At least cheaper than what I suppose is patreon's cut.
Because in the U.S. we don't really have a standardized way to transfer money to another bank account, at least not without knowing their bank routing number and account number, which isn't really information you want to share :)
Silly, I know.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#18Sumatra, alongside maybe Everything and IrfanView, is my favorite piece of software on windows. Incredible speed, great customizability and awesome compatibility. I really missed it when I made the switch to Linux, but not enough to consider installing WINE. Still, absolutely wonderful project deserving of the highest praise.
Paint.NET is great, too. It's not open source, unfortunately (for valid if regrettable reasons), but it's free as in free beer. The memory of its GUI makes me sigh a little whenever I open GIMP.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#19I have been using SumatraPDF on Windows for a long time. After opening a PDF file with it for the first time, I never went back to Adobe Reader. SumatraPDF is much faster, cleaner and less memory hungry.
Other readers likely have this feature, but one I love is that you can re-generate the PDF out from under it and it reloads the new content. As someone writing in LaTeX on emacs and constantly re-generating the PDF, this is very helpful.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#20> From the beginning my goal was to keep the UI of SumatraPDF as simple as possible. An 80/20 app: 80% of functionality with 20% of the UI. Come on, voices! Shout! "Worse is better" is the root of all evil. It's a virus, like C and Unix, and it is why most software is so miserable.
Simple != Worse.
Feature bloat is another reason software is miserable.