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Does it work for editing. Right now I'm paying $15 a month for primarily the privilege of editing PDFs. It seems every time I switch jobs, or have to send some documents, I need Adobe PDF writer.
And yeah...editing on Windows is a pain if you don't want to spend money.
I 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.
Same experience. Great piece of software, been using it for a long time as well. THANK YOU SO MUCH !
Does it work for editing. Right now I'm paying $15 a month for primarily the privilege of editing PDFs. It seems every time I switch jobs, or have to send some documents, I need Adobe PDF writer.
No it doesn't edit but he's thinking about implementing it. And yeah...editing on Windows is a pain if you don't want to spend money.
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>(for valid if regrettable reasons) Well now you got me curious. Why is that?
The author blogged about it in 2009 [1] TL;DR They used a MIT licence and other people were selling broken, rebranded cashgrab copies without changing things like the installer or crash logs being sent to the author etc [1] https://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paint...
Sumatra, 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.
I'd add Bvckup 2 to that list. Simply a application for copying/mirroring directories but is quick with a simple UI despite having lots of options. Bought a license years ago but still use it daily.
Rolling your own JSON, XML, etc parsers raises some eyebrows. I guess it's sort of okay if you expect to only be reading your local config files versus arbitrary web content. Maybe then it's okay to trade off raw speed for not handing a ton of formatting and syntax edge cases.
Writing GUI apps against the native framework. Yup, it'll be a major pain to ever port to another platform. But if you don't care to do that, nothing's as fast and clean both to develop and for the end-user to use as every platform's native framework.
Unit tests are sometimes overrated. IMO, they're much more suited to building apps in dynamic languages. Unit tests are a lot less important if you have a good type system and compiler checking things already. I've heard it described before that half of the benefit of unit testing in these languages is forcing yourself to structure code in testable modules with clean interfaces. But if you can just do that anyways, the actual tests are less important.
Sumatra, 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.
What's wrong with WINE?
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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.
I use photopea.com. It's a Photoshop clone but loads much faster and works great for when you don't need some of the newest / cutting edge PS features and don't work with large files.
One of the pains of moving from windows to a Mac was not having Sumatra. I've been using it on Windows for so long. I have tried many options on Mac, but they just doesn't feel "right" (too many options in viewers like Acrobat, too less features compared to Sumatra in others). Any plans to create a mac version?