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Gayan Perera
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Sumatra PDF = PDF, Comic & E-Book Reader

Hey Guys

Just a suggestion for Sumatra PDFs App Description

Sumatra PDF is currently described as a "a lightweight PDF viewer" in the Portable Apps Directory page (https://portableapps.com/apps)

Based on Sumatra PDFs main site (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/free-pdf-reader.html) - a more accurate description would be

- A lightweight PDF viewer, Comic Book reader, and E-book Viewer

OR

- Lightweight document viewer (PDF, ePub, MOBI, CHM, XPS, DjVu, CBZ, CBR)

A scan through the Portable App page for Sumatra PDF (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable) does mention that it can read Comic Books, but doesn't mention the fact that it can read E-Books.

Currently a quick scan through the Portable App Directory reveals that there are no programs that support Comic Books and/or E-Books - thus resulting in users requesting for an app to be developed such as Calibri, STDU Viewer, Cool Reader, CDisplay, Jomic, ComicRack, CDisplayEx, Java-Comix .... and the list goes on

Note: Sumatra PDFs capabilities as a Comic Book and E-Book reader have been recognized in earlier posts:
- https://portableapps.com/node/38240
- https://portableapps.com/node/38704

Thanks

John T. Haller
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Good call. I've added it.

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Oh I did not know that

Oh I did not know that Sumatra supports other formats except PDF. Thank for information.

There is no a stable release on our directory yet as e-book reader.

Calibre and FBReader are best GPL readers and they support many different formats:

http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#what-formats-does-app-support-c...

http://fbreader.org/content/book-formats-supported-and-not-supported

(I notice that there is no any format that supports fbreader and not calibre. So it seems calibre is best for all)

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