Rating and comments for Sumatra PDF

It's quite good, very basic pdf viewer. The main disadvantage of this program is that you can't select and copy text form pdf's documents.

Super fast! It's faster than Foxit Reader and it doesn't exhibit any problems with the PDF files I read (musical scores). Foxit had refresh issues with these files. Adobe Reader didn't, but neither come close to Sumatra's speed.

anonymous said....

a>...I read (musical scores). Foxit had refresh issues with these files. Adobe Reader didn't, but neither come close ...

I also read jazz charts and find when I use Acrobat to capture a chart using the 'graphics select tool' and save it to my file viewer (Vueprint), the quality of the graphic page is much less. The printing of that capture is also poor.

Aside from the full version of Acrobat, is there software including Sumatra, that will capture a page from the Real Book and paste the chart accurately or with minimal loss
into Vueprint or other graphics reader?

cheers

Wayne Renardson
wayne at renardson dot org

I just come back from restarting XP. Restart was necessary due to Adobe Reader's request during deinstallation ;-)

5 Stars for
- speed
- being a viewer, no more, no less
- window layout (document only - nagging icons etc. gone to hell)
- using ~5.6 MB of RAM (Adobe Reader: ~113 MB)
- speed!

Very fast!
sumatra is Open source (gpl)
foxit is freeware!

Pro:
Its fast, lighting fast compared to adobe reader.

Cons:
You litterly have no functionality, besides zoom. You can't select text, if there are book marks you will not be able to access them. Doesn't play media, show comments, etc. etc.

This is just ment to read pdfs and not waste time loading adobes over bloated reader.

I found it not to work properly with Stagecoach bus time tables so I had to opt for the official bloated client :(.

To address a comment above, you can select text if you hold down the Control key and drag with the left mouse button.