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Sumatra PDF viewer: free, fast, tiny, and open source
Sumatra is a single 802KB executable file for Windows. No installation required. That means you can run Sumatra off of a flash drive. You can also set it as your default PDF viewer.
The program opens most of your common PDF files faster than you can say Adobe. It also uses keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation. And it's still under development. The most recent update came out about two weeks ago with a few new features like "save as," and the ability to display recently opened files.
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Subscribe to commentsmichas_piAug 8th 2007 10:33PM
I've been using Sumatra for a while now and I think it's awesome.
I had to dump the official Adobe Reader after the AdobeUpdater.exe process would make my CPU load shoot up to 100% and stay that way. It didn't allow itself to be terminated in the Task Manager. Thanks a lot, Adobe.
I found Sumatra after a little Google session and I am highly impressed. Props to the developer.
Sumatra does have a couple of bugs here and there with rendering PDFs correctly and printing documents in the opposite orientation that the PDF is in, but these bugs are forgivable. I mean, it's not Adobe's original software and it comes extremely close in render quality to Adobe Reader.
I love this program.
sickleclownsAug 9th 2007 7:28AM
I tried sumatra about a month ago but switched back to foxit pdf because it was faster/less buggy. Guess I might give this another go, that thumbnail feature's reet handy. I'd use both over acrobat though reader despite the occasional rendering wierdness.
MatidioAug 9th 2007 7:29AM
You can't search pdfs. The major shortcoming for me.
thielAug 9th 2007 6:22PM
At least it renders better than foxit ( which I still use alot)I have never got great text with foxit, even though I like it otherwise. Sumatra is certainly short on features, plus does anyone else have scroll wheel functionality with this???