Alternatives :

 

- Genius PDF Reader do the job I want ( Genius PDF is no more! ) link version 2.1 here

 

- Also I found Haihaisoft PDF Reader a bit similar to sumatra.(Video Tutorial)

 

- Rocket PDF seems good also

 

- PDF Lite is very similar (see video here) and can be downloaded from here  (silent setup here)

 

- PDF Master is a Russian alternative , official website here

Edited November 20, 20223 yr by spinalgr

SumatraPDF is still working great, lightweight and fast. It can also read cbr, cbz, epub, and many other formats.

Only caveats: it's only a reader, not an editor.

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3.5 (2023-10-23)

• Arm 64-bit builds
• dark mode (menu Settings / Theme or Ctrl + K command Next theme) you can use i (invert colors) to match the background / text color of rendered PDF document. Due to technical limitations, it doesn’t work well with images
• i (invert colors) is remembered in settings
• CmdEditAnnotation select annotation under cursor and open annotation edit window
• rename CmdShowCursorPosition => CmdToggleCursorPosition
• add Annotations [ FreeTextColor, FreeTextSize, FreeTextBorderWidth ] settings
• ability to move annotations. Ctrl + click to select annotation and them move via drag & drop
• add CmdCommandPaletteOnlyTabs command with Alt + K shortcut
• exit full screen / presentation modes via double click with left mouse button
• ability to drag out a tab to open it in new window
• support opening .avif images (including inside .cbz/,cbr files)
• respect image orientation exif metadata in .jpeg and .png images
• support Adobe Reader syntax for opening files /A "page=<pageno>#nameddest=<dest>search=<string>
• add Next Tab / Prev Tab commands with Ctrl + PageUp / Ctrl + PageDown shortcuts
• keep Home tab open; add NoHomeTab advanced option to d`isable that
• add context menu to tabs
• bugfix: handle files we can’t open in next file in folder / prev file in folder commands
• command palette: when search starts with >, only show commands, not files (like in Visual Studio Code)
• add reopen last closed command (Ctrl + Shift + T, like in web browsers)
• add clear history command
• can send commands via DDE
• added CmdOpenWithExplorer, CmdOpenWithDirectoryOpus, CmdOpenWithTotalCommander, CmdOpenWithDoubleCommander commands
• enable CmdCloseOtherTabs, CmdCloseTabsToTheRight commands from command palette
• recognize PgUp / PgDown and a few more in keyboard shortcuts
• add -disable-auto-rotation cmd-line print option

 

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3.5.1 (2023-10-24)

• fix uninstaller crash
• disable lazy loading of files when restoring a session

 

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3.5.2 (2023-10-25)

• fix not showing tab text
• make menus in dark themes look more like standard menus (bigger padding)
• fix Bookmarks for folder showing bad file names
• update translations

 

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• add DisableAntiAlias advanced setting and CmdToggleAntiAlias command

• add CmdShowAnnotations, CmdHideAnnotations, CmdToggleShowAnnotations commands for temporarily hiding / showing annotations

• add CmdToggleInverseSearch to temporarily disable mouse click invoking tex inverse search

• add bgcolor, opacity, textsize, borderWidth arguments to CmdCreateAnnot* commands

• add Annotations.FreeTextBackgroundColor and Annotations.FreeTextOpacity advanced settings

• sort thumbnails on home page by most recently used date. Set advanced setting HomePageSortByFrequentlyRead = true to revert to pre-3.6 behavior of sorting by frequency of use.

• support brotli compression in PDF files

• in Command Palette, if you start search with : we show everything (like in 3.5)

• in Command Palette, when viewing opened files history (#), you can press Delete to remove the entry from history

• improved zooming:

  • zooming with pinch touch screen gesture or with ctrl + scroll wheel now zooms around the mouse position and does continuous zoom levels. Used to zoom around top-left corner and progress fixed zoom levels shown in menu

• include manual (F1 to launch browser with documentation)

• add LazyLoading advanced setting, defaults to true. When restoring a session lazy loading delays loading a file until its tab is selected. Makes SumatraPDF startup faster.

• new commands in command palette (Ctrl + K):

  • CmdCloseAllTabs : “Close All Tabs”

  • CmdCloseTabsToTheLeft : “Close Tabs To The Left”

  • CmdDeleteFile: “Delete File”

  • CmdToggleFrequentlyRead : “Toggle Frequently Read”

  • CmdToggleLinks : “Toggle Show Links”

  • CmdInvokeInverseSearch

  • CmdMoveTabRight (Ctrl + Shift + PageUp), CmdMoveTabLeft (Ctrl + Shift + PageDown) to move tabs left / right, like in Chrome

• add ability to provide arguments to some commands when creating bindings in Shortcuts:

  • CmdCreateAnnot* commands take a color argument, openedit to automatically open edit annotations window when creating an annotation, copytoclipboard to copy selection to clipboard and setcontent to set contents of annotation to selection

  • CmdScrollDown, CmdScrollUp : integer argument, how many lines to scroll

  • CmdGoToNextPage, CmdGoToPrevPage : integer argument, how many pages to advance

  • CmdNextTabSmart, CmdPrevTabSmart (Smart Tab Switch), shortcut: Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + Shift + Tab

• added UIFontSize advanced setting

• removed TreeFontWeightOffset advanced setting

• increase number of thumbnails on home page from 10 => 30

• add ShowLinks advanced setting and “Toggle Show Links” (CmdToggleLinks) for command palette

• default ReuseInstance setting to true

• added Key arg to ExternalViewers advanced setting (keyboard shortcut)

• added Key arg to SelectionHandlers advanced setting (keyboard shortcut)

• improved scrolling with mouse wheel and touch gestures

• theming improvements

• go back to opening settings file with default .txt editor (notepad most likely)

• don’t exit fullscreen on double-click. must double-click in upper-right corner

• when opening via double-click, if Ctrl is pressed will always open in new tab (vs. activating existing tab)

• register for handling .webp files

• bug fix: Del should not delete an annotation if editing content

• bug fix: re-enable tree view full row select

• change: CmdCreateAnnotHighlight etc. no longer copies selection to clipboard by default. To get that behavior back, you can use copytoclipboard argument instead.

• change: Ctrl + Tab is now CmdNextTabSmart, was CmdNextTab. Ctrl + Shift + Tab is now CmdPrevTabSmart, was CmdPrevTab. You can re-bind it if you prefer old behavior

• CmdCommandPalette takes optional mode argument: @ for tab selection, # for selecting from file history and > for commands.

• command palette no longer shows combined tabs/file history/commands. CmdCommandPalette only shows commands. Because of that removed CmdCommandPaletteNoFiles because now `CmdCommandPalette behaves like it

• removed CmdCommandPaletteOnlyTabs, replaced by CmdCommandPaletteNoFiles @

• Ctrl + Shift + K no longer active, use Ctrl + K. You can restore this shortcut by binding it to CmdCommandPalette > command.

• add Name field for shortcuts. If given, the command will show up in Command Palette (Ctrl + K)

• closing a current tab now behaves like in Chrome: selects next tab (to the right). We used to select previously active tab, but that’s unpredictable and we prefer to align SumatraPDF behavior with other popular apps.

• swapped key bindings: i is now CmdTogglePageInfo, I is CmdInvertColors. Several people were confused by accidentally typing i to invert colors, is less likely to type it accidentally

• allow creating custom themes in advanced settings in Themes section. See docs.

• improve scrolling with middle click drag #4529

• make built-in keyboard shortcuts work on non-us keyboards (cyrillic , hebrew etc.)

• add CmdDuplicateInNewTab (Open Current Document In New Tab) command