Excellent lightweight and pure Win32 software, always finds its way into the system whenever I need to visit MS-land. Never change, and please never do a "modern" electron.js hell rewrite, Sumatra PDF is an exemplar of something that does its job and asks only for what it needs.
This reader along with 7Zip, IrfanViewer, FreeCommander, Gvim (and some others) comprise the old faithfuls.
Don't be fooled by the name. It's not limited to PDF. It's possibly the best ebook reader for windows.
Best PDF reader. For me biggest feature is not locking file while reading. I can't image developing some PDF with Jasper with any other PDF reader. 10 years ago people looked at me as some god when I show them how to test jasper rendering PDF with JUnit and SumatraPDF and not deployng whole app to Websphere and clicking through it. Decresed time to see changes from 4-5 minutes to 2-3 seconds.
This is an incredible program to read PDFs! Lighting fast, super small, no telemetry or any other invasive things...
Along with VLC and Firefox one of the first programs I install on a fresh windows installation. I've been using this instead of Adobe for years. And as has been mentioned it reads a lot of other formats. Its fast and clean and easily the best reader software out there.
If you want support, publicity, bug reports, etc. just change the name to SumatraEPUB or SumatraEbook + "which can read most formats including pdfs" + Android app. It will skyrocket the downloads.
I had to revert back to 3.3, the EbookUI settings were removed in 3.4 and you cannot use custom fonts when reading EPUB files. It's unusable for me like this.
Last time I tried Sumatrapdf I couldn't find a good way to quickly turn dark mode on/off, or keep a sidebar that showed me all of my annotations inline, or make 'popup note' annotations. Has any of it changed now?
SumatraPDF is great! It’s fast, but does not work well for annotations like highlighting text.
I have switched to Okular, you can install it directly from the Microsoft store directly.
this is simply the best thing to happen to a windows pc. seriously, adobe reader is ABSOLUTE trash as compared to sumatra. every time i see someone's pc, i involuntarily install sumatra, remove adobe reader
For Windows XP 32-bit, the last supported version is 3.1.2. There is a guy[1] who hacks on later releases to make them work on XP. His latest is version 3.3.3.[2]
[1] https://msfn.org/board/topic/176299-latest-version-of-softwa...
[2] http://designingonajuicycup.com/downloads/untested/sumatrapd... (file)
This app's still going?!? Man, this was my official PDF/eBook/CBZ reader when my life revolved around cheap PC laptops, Win2K/Classic theme, and lots of low-footprint apps like Foobar2000, uTorrent (pre-monetization), etc
We've been using Sumatra at my work in New Zealand for the past year.
I moved back to Windows after years of Linux use. I was shocked at how slow PDFS opened. So, I started looking for a replacement. Sumatra was by far the best.
My #1 choice for .epub :).
I used to use Sumatra all the time. It's fast and light, exactly what I'm looking for
Unfortunately BSI added DRM to the PDFs which means I'm now locked down to Acrobat
As a lawyer, SumatraPDF is my go to for everything. Fast, snappy, and works with zero-config problems through Wine on Linux.
I found this thing like 6years ago on hn. Thanks! hands down best lightweight pdf editor ever!
Kudos from India :-) Keep up the good work, team! You mean a lot to us!
Any recommendations for macOS?
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Still no released support for screen readers [1]. The developer seems confused about whether muPDF should have the support [2] (accessibility is the responsibility of the GUI - it needs to provide an accessibility tree for any manually rendered text).
[1] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Accessibility-and-Text... [2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/321
I'm especially proud of adding Command Palette (Ctrl + K).
And you can now customize keyboard shortcuts.
And created https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests so that you can vote on features I should implement next (people really want the dark theme).
And I'm making https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease daily builds with seamless auto-updates so that people interested in latest features can get them as soon as they are implemented (I've already added .avif support, and commands to re-open last closed file and clear history)