Sumatra PDF Portable 0.8 Revision 2 Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 21, 2008 - 4:28pm

Sumatra PDF logoSumatra PDF Portable 0.8 Revision 2 has been released. It's the lightweight Sumatra PDF viewer packaged as a portable app, so you can view PDFs on the go. This release fixes a bug in the 0.8 release that caused an empty directory to be created on the local PC. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Features

Sumatra PDF Portable Screenshot Sumatra PDF is a slim, free, open-source PDF viewer for Windows. Sumatra has a minimalistic design but still has most of the features you need from a PDF viewer. It's small and starts up very fast.

New in This Release

A bug in the 0.8 release that caused an empty directory to be created within APPDATA on the local PC has been fixed.

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

Sumatra PDF Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

Sumatra PDF Portable is available for immediate download from the Sumatra PDF Portable homepage. Get it today!

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forgot about that.
Works without problems now.

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Hi all,

I downloaded the 0.8 Rev 2 update, used the launcher to execute, and I still get the empty "SumatraPDF" directory in APPDATA.

Another observation - If I bypass the PA launcher and just run SumatraPDF.exe on the C: drive it will write its .DAT file to APPDATA, but if I run SumatraPDF.exe from a USB key it writes the .DAT file to the USB directory where the EXE is located. Is the problem hard coded into the SumatraPDF executable?

John R

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