Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app

Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by grudg3 on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @01:00PM (#35072394)

> It also blows my mind that Windows still doesn't come with a proper built-in PDF viewer like macOS does.

Usually that viewer is the browser, so by default Edge is the default PDF viewer.

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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by pcdevils on Thursday March 09, 2023 @04:11AM (#35079539)

Part of the push to use the browsers pdf engine was a result of Adobe acrobat being an endless festival of security bugs. Loading it in the browser allows them to reuse the same sandboxing. Pretty good idea for most folk. I like sumatrapdf because it keeps track of the pdfs I have open and the page. Like having an ebook reader on windows that doesn't suck.

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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by hulitu on Thursday March 09, 2023 @08:32AM (#35080967)

> Part of the push to use the browsers pdf engine was a result of Adobe acrobat being an endless festival of security bugs.

The browsers are also "an endless festival of security bugs." Especially since they started to execute remote code. I can't view pdfs in browser. I need to zoom, find, and copy parts of (electronical schematics) pdfs and the browser version just sucks.

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Re:Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open sour... by pcdevils on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:26PM (#35102093)

Agreed. I still use acrobat for form filling and this one for the rest

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