Sumatra 7mb Adobe Acrobat DC 2.4gb
In fairness, acrobat is a full fledged editor of a hacked file format. My Acrobat Reader DC install is sitting st 384 MB and Sumatra is at 18.7 MB; only a factor of 20 larger. :)
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
#32Sumatra is pretty nice, and definitely an app I miss on Linux. I used to use evince, but it had more compatibility issues (it uses the Poppler library that Sumatra dropped) and I wasn't a fan of the UI redesigns for Gnome 3.
These days I actually use Firefox as my Linux PDF reader.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Have you tried Pinta? Filled the niche for me after switching to Linux.
Pinta uses an older Paint.Net code - https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry this may be an obvious thing but I am genuinely curious (and I don't live in the US): why would one be afraid of sharing those? It's not like they're your credit card details or something. What am I missing?
Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's an extra Hassel, and your out finds until they give you a provisional credit.
How hard is it to get those debits reversed?
Here in the UK while it's super easy to set up a fraudulent direct debit on someone else's account details, it's equally easy to claim those payments back (and the scheme guarantees you the right to be able to claim a payment back for any reason, doesn't even have to be fraud - the merchant can of course still chase you if you've declined a legitimate payment you owe them).
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#35I just downloaded it and I'm quite impressed with the ease of use of the color options. Just a few lines in a text file. I can swap between dark and light modes easily.
Does anyone know if the window background can be darkened at all? The window UI text color is controlled by the same setting as the pdf text color, so when using a dark background/light text mode the window UI text is very low contrast.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#36Sumatra, 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 love Sumatra too. I dislike there is no dark mode so I just used inverted colors and it has worked well. Super lightweight and simple. Unlike adobe which is bloated, slow, and annoying.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Have you tried Pinta? Filled the niche for me after switching to Linux.
Pinta crashes very frequently for me, usually after 2/3 operations.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#38SumatraPDF is one of the thing I dearly miss after having switched from Windows to Linux. It's just perfect for reading PDFs.
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#39One 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?
I cannot compare it to SumatraPDF, but I really enjoy Skim: https://skim-app.sourceforge.io/
Re: Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry this may be an obvious thing but I am genuinely curious (and I don't live in the US): why would one be afraid of sharing those? It's not like they're your credit card details or something. What am I missing?
Because the same two numbers (routing and account) are used to deposit money AND debit money. So if you post your account numbers I can pull all your money out. Now you'll likely get it back if you file a fraud claim, but that's an extra Hassel, and your out finds until they give you a provisional credit.
It's also why Donald Knuth doesn't hand out real cheques anymore… too many people (me included, but I later blackened those parts) posted pictures of their cheques online: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
I don't know if something really happened or if he was just being cautious, but so the Bank of San Seriffe was born: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html