Written by todo1 | 05 February 2011
Posted in: Programs - Office

Portable Sumatra PDF has a minimalistic design, with its simplicity attained at the expense of extensive features. It uses the MuPDF PDF rendering library. Sumatra was designed for portable use, as it consists of one single file with no external dependencies, making it usable from an external USB drive. This classifies it as a portable application. As is characteristic of many portable applications, Sumatra takes up little disk space. It has a 1.1 MB setup file, compared to Adobe Reader's 44.1 MB, for Windows XP and Vista. Installed size is also 1.1MB, whereas Adobe Reader 9.0.0's installed size is approximately 221 MB. Sumatra does not lock the PDF file. Without closing the PDF file, a user can recompile the text document and generate a new PDF file and then press the R key to refresh the PDF document.

What's New in version 1.3:

    * improved text selection and copying. We now mimic the way a browser or Adobe Reader works: just select text with mouse and use Ctrl-C to copy it to a clipboard
    * Shift+Left Mouse now scrolls the document, Ctrl+Left mouse still creates a rectangular selection (for copying images)
    * 'c' shortcut toggles continuous mode
    * '+' / '*' on the numeric keyboard now do zoom and rotation
    * added toolbar icons for Fit Page and Fit Width and updated the look of toolbar icons
    * add support for back/forward mouse buttons for back/forward navigation
    * 1.2 introduces a new full screen mode and made it the default full screen mode. Old mode was still available but not easily discoverable. We've added View/Presentation menu item for new full screen mode and View/Fullscreen menu item for the old full screen mode, to make it more discoverable
    * new, improved installer
    * improved zoom performance (zooming to 6400 percent no longer crashes)
    * text find uses less memory
    * further printing improvements
    * translation updates
    * updated to latest mupdf for misc bugfixes and improvements
    * use libjpeg-turbo library instead of libjpeg, for faster decoding of some PDFs
    * updated openjpeg library to version 1.4 and freetype to version 2.4.4
    * fixed 2 integer overflows reported by Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research

File size: 1.62 MB

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