Sumatra PDF Portable 0.5 Released

Sumatra PDF logo Sumatra PDF Portable 0.5 has been released. It's the lightweight Sumatra PDF viewer packaged as a portable app, so you can view PDFs on the go. This is a new app to the PortableApps.com lineup and it's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. Get it from the Sumatra PDF Portable homepage.

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HA! It's official!

So glad to see this one added to portableapps.com as an official release. I hope this helps others as much as it's helped me. I use this all the time. Now to go replace my beta test version. Thanks John!

nice but... where are

nice but... where are bookmarks ??
I still prefer Foxit PDF Reader.

Some tips

1. Sumatra PDF is not created by the People at PortableApps.com, so complaining about features here is dumb.

2. Foxit PDF reader isn't portable. Your preference of Foxit is pointless here because the point isn't just to have another program that opens PDFs, but to have a portable program that opens PDFs.

3. Stop being a mooch by bashing free programs just because they don't have all the features you want. Either offer postive, constructive criticism or shut the heck up. No programmer wants to program for ungrateful users at any price, let alone free.

[quote]2. Foxit PDF reader

[quote]2. Foxit PDF reader isn't portable. Your preference of Foxit is pointless here because the point isn't just to have another program that opens PDFs, but to have a portable program that opens PDFs.[/quote]

There is a zipped version which you can unzip and just start.

I like Foxit reader, it's at least way better then the adobe app.
But I'm gone try Sumatra PDF anyway.

I tried Sumatra PDF. It's realy looks like a clean,small program. I was missing a pagelist on the left, so I think it's useable and good for usb-stick but still to bare to be a real pdf-reader. It does look prommising though.

Definition

I guess you have a different definition for "portable".
For firefeather, portable means " no registry entries and files whatsoever are left behind"
and for you, "portable" is "I don't have to install it. I just copy the files to my USB and it works".
Am I right.
So the same program can be "portable" for one person but not for another".

"Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard P. Feynman

firefeather, may I suggest

firefeather, may I suggest you to take some rest... you seem very nervous !

1. I perfectly know that PortableApps.com does not create programs but adapt existing programs, like http://www.framakey.org (unfortunately for you, it's mainly in French)

2. Foxit PDF Reader is not portable... well, 2 weeks before the launching of Sumatra PDF Portable, I discoverd Foxit PDF reader ... with a portable launcher done according the "PortableApps.com" theme. In the readme.txt file, first lines are :

Foxit Reader Portable Edition 2.0.0.0
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Copyright (C) 2004-2005 John T. Haller
Copyright (C) 2006 OTBSoft

If you cannot find it, I may send you a copy...

3. I don't think to be a "mooch by bashing free programs" because Foxit is Free ! See http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php -> "Foxit Reader 2.0 is a free PDF document viewer and printer". So I only compare 2 free (and portable programs.

The interface of Sumatra is nicer... but without bookmarks viewer and "find" capabilities, could you explain me how you will manage and navigate through big files ?

"Either offer postive, constructive criticism or shut the heck up. No programmer wants to program for ungrateful users at any price, let alone free."

I'm the first to congratulate programmer for nice programs or to offer help in the only way I have -> translations to French and/or beta testing...but I will not congratulate for the pleasure of congratulation.

Finally my posts in English are generally shortest and less nuanced/balanced than those sent in my native language.

I believe the guys at Framakey worked with John at one point

1. Reading the notes in the french installers and NSIS scripts, it looks like JTH and Framakey the guys at Framakey collaborated. Cool. 8)
2.The Foxit Reader PE launcher was adapted by OTBSoft from one of John's Launcher's. Thus the dual copyright notice.
3. Foxit Reader is a free as in beer but not free as in speech reader. It is closed source. SumatraPDF is used here because it is both. So even though they are both free they are still apples and oranges. I think firefeather may have been suggesting that you contact Krzysztof Kowalczyk to give any feature requests and help with programming. Could have been more diplomatic...

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Jeffrey Wiggs
Loving God and Learning Laughter