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Sumatra is a good application choice for safety, but be aware - the printing support is either really bad or non functional depending on the document.

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I moved to Sumatra PDF many moons ago and have never looked back. It is like the Google Chrome of PDF viewers.

I'm honestly interested... Was that intended to be a subtle joke or a serious analogy?

I was actually serious. When Chrome came out I left Firefox since Chrome was so much faster on my PC. Same thing with Sumatra. I guess the analogy would work well for those who had a similar experience with Chrome. :)

That much I guessed. I just wondered if you realised that Chrome itself has a PDF viewer built-in these days, making Google Chrome the Google Chrome of PDF readers. :-)

That certainly makes a good joke. :-) But no, I didn't have that in mind.

Yep. Sumatra is great for snappy viewing. But do not print! What it does is convert whole pages in bitmaps and chokes the memory and the network.

I would strong recommend PDF-Xchange. I was a heavy Foxit user, but then it became bloated too and Sumatra lacks some features like highlighting and commenting.

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