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Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by wolverine876 »

drannex wrote: post #229
wolverine876 wrote: post #214

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> When you hover on a cross-referenced entry, it opens a little preview window with the contents of the reference. Wikipedia does the same thing, but I assume you would know that. What am I misunderstanding? Also, if it makes your PDF reader execute arbitrary remote code, isn't that a serious risk?

I don't believe it's a risk, since you're not injecting arbitrary remote code into a document, you're more overlaying on top of it. Even if the reader wants to execute code, then it will, that's how you have a reader to begin with. As long as it's not the PDF itself (source document) deciding to execute inline code, you should be fine.

What does it matter if it's displayed in the document or in an overlay window or if it's saved in the document or not? That code could try to do anything; many PDF readers have a security option to prevent opening any remote documents or links.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by enthdegree »

emeril wrote: post #185
ed_balls wrote: post #170

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META: What's the best way to convert pdfs to CSV/excel? Any new LLM tool?

abbyy finereader 8.0(!!!) good luck finding it

This is a really obscure recommendation. Can anyone who knows about the specifics expound?

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by botanical »

When I'd used Windows Sumatra was the best; on Ubuntu, I use Zathura which is similar, fast and minimal. But I think most PDF viewers are more or less the same as they either use mupdf or poppler

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by lxgr »

pbmonster wrote: post #112
lxgr wrote: post #58

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Exclusive locking is simply the default on Windows.

Sure, but for a viewer, deviating from that default makes a lot of sense. I started using Sumatra years ago exclusively because of that feature. Exports/compiles failing, just because the PDF is still open somewhere is just unbelievably annoying.

Definitely! I'm just providing some background on why "lock by default" is so common for Windows applications, and so rare on Unix: It's the defaults.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by Sakos »

kjksf wrote: post #173
Sakos wrote: post #135

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Did they ever fix the issues around printing? I always ended up using a different PDF viewer just because of that.

(I wrote SumatraPDF). Not yet but I'm thinking about how to improve it. Maybe next version.

It's such a good PDF viewer otherwise. I hate having to use something else.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by lazycouchpotato »

HKH2 wrote: post #98
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?

These are all the settings available: https://i.imgur.com/sMZPTax.png

It has dual page view and the option for odd or even page split - addressing your first page left/right concerns.

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Post by davikr »

mahdi7d1 wrote: post #51
davikr wrote: post #3

I really love SumatraPDF but I wish it'd fare better on the search story: there's no widget to show all search matches, afaik, and searching can be slow on really big files with thousands of pages. To be fair, most PDF readers struggle with this, and I suspect only Acrobat attempts to cache or index files (as a Pro feature).

I remember reading a blog post from the author of sioyek boasting about search performance. Haven't personally compared the options but for me sumatra zathura and sioyek all feel fast enough to not notice any problems. https://ahrm.github.io/jekyll/update/2022/09/11/pdf-viewer-t... "Now I must admit, the reason sioyek is so fast is because it creates a search index when you open the document."

Ah, I had heard about Sioyek but I didn't know there was an option I could enable to build a search index. That is really nice.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by MilStdJunkie »

ed_balls wrote: post #170
Helmut10001 wrote: post #128

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, S…

META: What's the best way to convert pdfs to CSV/excel? Any new LLM tool?

Tabula

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by MilStdJunkie »

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?

Rolling around in money from all the licenses, I would imagine.

Re: SumatraPDF Reader

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Post by MilStdJunkie »

viraptor wrote: post #45
hu3 wrote: post #24

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No joke. Yesterday I found out PDFs can have forms with JavaScript. https://tcpdf.org/examples/example_014/ How does this even work?

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...

Please please don't mention 3d pdfs. Please. I had to implement this. 3d manipulation in a block inside of a print format that might make deliverables in the hundreds of gigs. It's . . it's one of the dumbest functional requirements I've ever seen, and the fact it exists. . I'm sorry, I have to go be by myself for a while.
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