Sumatra PDF Viewer is now portable:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
"It's designed for portable use: it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive"
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I just tried this viewer today and it rocks! Lightning fast startup and document open. I don't know how to check for portability issues, but I really like it. This would be a great one to add to portableapps.com
Version 0.5 available now for download
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I forgot to post the test package of this. I'm on my way out. But I'll post it tomorrow.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I can't wait. Finally, a portable PDF reader, from PortableApps.com too
Maybe tomorrow though, cause I haven't heard from you on the forums today.
Tomorrow became Monday as I wasn't around on Sunday... but here it is:
https://portableapps.com/node/5681
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I just tried this viewer today and it rocks! Lightning fast startup and document open. I don't know how to check for portability issues, but I really like
it. This would be a great one to add to portableapps.com
It starts up really fast, but opens 2 pdfs I tested sooooooooooo sloooooooooowly.
Foxit 15 s.
They were also incorrectly displayed.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
That's weird. I've opened up at least 10 at this point and they've all been fast with no errors. Some were MSOffice/OpenOffice docs that were converted to PDF; some were scans of images that were directly created as PDFs; and some were created in Acrobat. No problems on any of them.
Hmm..something bad happens with my memory.
I found this files. Rendering is really fast. But they are shown incorrectly. I'll post Krzysztofowi a bug report.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
portablefreeware.com lists Sumatra as having display problems, and cautions users that they therefore might wanna skip Sumatra in favor of another such PDF app.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
Potentially, what other PDF readers are there to choose? Foxit has copyright, I haven't tried Cool PDF reader, but I don't think it's any good. And the only thing that seems to be wrong with Sumatra, is Zooming at high levels (Takes a while to load) Other than that, it's fantastic, opened my 89 page PDF file in well. There's no ammount of seconds to describe it. It's quicked than Adobe.
Nope, zoom is the only view bug in the tracker. But not the only.
http://www.ii.uj.edu.pl/~rosek/komp/6_AnSem.pdf for example. It's not my pdf, I don't know what was it created with.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
Turns out I am mistaken.
PFW lists "Cool PDF Reader" as the suspect app I was thinking about.
Sorry, my bad...
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@ John T. Haller:
D00d, how come I can't edit my above post (which I only posted
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
Would you relax for once and not go blaming stuff on people? It's EXACTLY the same as it always has been. For the ENTIRE life of this site. Once someone replies, you can not edit. We even discussed this in a thread a few days ago.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
I didn't realize it was a "once someone replies" thing. I don't recall ever running up against such a situation prior to this.
My apologies.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
@Preacher
Well like John said to me in a post in this forum it's just a drupal thing
your friendly neighbourhood moderator Zach Thibeau
I tried a 282 pages PDF and it didn't even take 1/10 seconds. It was impressive, adope takes like ages on it. So I don't know maybe it is an architecture issue?
Sumatra uses the MuPDF engine by default. Un-tick the "Use MuPDF rendering engine" option in the "View Menu", restart Sumatra, and then try viewing the PDF again. It would work fine. It seems to view files correctly and faster than with the default MuPDF rendeing engine after the change.
Edit: Hm, meant to rely to the comment about the dodgy pdf file(s)...
Thanks. I tried to change the engine, but I didn't restart it. Now it works fine.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov