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this is simply the best thing to happen to a windows pc. seriously, adobe reader is ABSOLUTE trash as compared to sumatra. every time i see someone's pc, i involuntarily install sumatra, remove adobe reader

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So you remove a full-featured product, albeit a bloated one, for one that has very limited functionality. So next time they go to sign a PDF or whatever they are going to say... hmmm, this person uninstalled something I actually use.

For everyone who needs: JSignPDF[1]. FLOSS multi platform software to sign PDF's.

[1] http://jsignpdf.sourceforge.net/

eh, people dont have to "Sign" a pdf, there are dozens of online software to do just that.

So upload sensitive information to a random third-party to sign a document? No thanks

Many people aren't willing to do this when the document contains sensitive information.

No. Anything that requires signing is not getting uploaded to a random web service.

At what point will Adobe designers realise that most of us would rather experience knife wounds than use Adobe Reader? It is an objectively worse experience to almost every single PDF reader including Chrome. I'd rather get stabbed every time I use SumatraPDF than use Adobe Reader.

I agree with you on Adobe Reader but I think Adobe doesn't care one bit. Somehow they have managed to entrench themselves in the enterprise document workflow.

It’s been over a decade since I used adobe reader (currently a Linux user, and sumatra user when I had windows). And I honestly don’t remember what made adobe reader bad (I just remember that it was bad). Do you care to explain what it is specifically about adobe reader that is so bad compared to Sumatra?

The pre-CC Adobe Reader XI functions pretty much the same as Sumatra and doesn't have those anti-features

Adobe Reader XI reached end-of-life of on 15 October 2017. [0] It has not received security updates for nearly five years.

Security updates are very important for a PDF reader, particularly Adobe's. [1] I would advise you not to use it, unless it is to open trusted PDF files you created yourself.

[0] https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/end-of-support-acrobat-xi...

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...

sumatra is like 2 MB install

What does it add to plain mupdf (on which it seems to be based)? I love the clean, elegant interface of mupdf, and I can't imagine how could you ever improve on that.

Lots and lots of additional features.

More formats supported, more view options, remembers the history of files, command palette to quickly access all functionality, way more keyboard shortucts, customizable keyboard shortucts, more customizability of the UI.

Maybe I shouldn't comment on the competition but mupdf on windows is very bare bones.

As I understand, with html, mupdf tries to support all web technologies?

No. MuPDF only supports a limited subset of HTML5 and CSS to support basic EPUB and FictionBook2.

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