Comments on: Goodbye Adobe Reader Hello Sumatra

By: Valery

Valery — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:17:38 +0000

For my opinion PDF-XChange Viewer is the most feature rich alternative to Acrobat available and FREE! Most features are FREE! Sumatra work good, but it is only for viewing. I need make comments, stamps, highlight text, …… and another. And PDF-XChange can do! I like its GUI much more than Foxit GUI. I’m satisfied with its fast and easy work. I wholeheartedly recommend anyone needing to work with PDF files takes a look at the free PDF-XChange Viewer from Tracker Software. It does numerous things that the FREE version of Foxit doesn’t. it also offers support for XFA PDF form files which neither Foxit nor Nitro does. The support is also excellent and free!

By: Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:42:06 +0000

Hi retards, Calibre is far better than Sumatra, Foxit or PDF XChange Viewer, you should widen your horizons and try it. The rendering is for example much much better, i like BIG letters, it suits me because it is good to have a distance when reading from a backlit screen. The problem with all the other readers is that if you zoom, the text comes out of screen instead of rearranging itself, how primitive isn’t that?

By: DarkBlood

DarkBlood — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:39:00 +0000

for me was “Goodbye Foxit Reader, welcome PDF-XChange Viewer” :D

Sumatra is the most simple pdf reader, TOO SIMPLE and because of that it lacks a lot of features that others pdf readers have.

PDF-XChange Viewer is much like Foxit Reader, is better is some cases, more preferences for advanced users, natively portable (ALL settings are stored on the folder dir of the program) and nothing of ad-aware.

By: Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player Zero Day Vulnerability

Adobe Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player Zero Day Vulnerability — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:24:02 +0000

[...] An alternative would be to uninstall Adobe Reader or Acrobat and install one of the available third party pdf readers like Foxit Reader or Sumatra. [...]

By: Dalopin

Dalopin — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:59 +0000

SumatraPDF ignores password protected PDFs and allows to still copy the content

By: Sumatra PDF Reader 1.0 Released

Sumatra PDF Reader 1.0 Released — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:41:01 +0000

[...] reviewed the Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra back in the beginning of 2008 and came to the conclusion back then that Sumatra was a lightweight [...]

By: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates | Blogging Planet

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates | Blogging Planet — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:32:08 +0000

[...] might want to consider switching from Adobe Reader to a third party application like Foxit Reader, Sumatra PDF or PDF-Xchange [...]

By: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Security Updates — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:48:41 +0000

[...] might want to consider switching from Adobe Reader to a third party application like Foxit Reader, Sumatra PDF or PDF-Xchange [...]

By: bill

bill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:26:35 +0000

Adobe Reader 8.12 boolean search says it finds x number of PDF files, but displays nothing in the results box! Previous version 7.08, although slow, worked.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:21:16 +0000

FoxIt text search = pitiful. No boolean capabilities in 2.2 and apparently not 2.3.

By: Ignasi

Ignasi — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:23:35 +0000

- Sumatra is GPL.
- For me, it’s faster than Foxit and PDF x-Viewer.
- No installation, just unzip (drool).
- I have ALL that readers, but I open 90% of my PDFs with Sumatra.

Just my 2 cents :)

By: Zoob

Zoob — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:37:40 +0000

Thanks you guys for the info on PDF XChange Viewer. I had never heard of it, so I downloaded it and gave it a run. I was quite impressed with it. It even had tabs at the top, though I don’t often have more than one PDF file open at once so I don’t know if I’ll get much use out of that feature. I found it to render the text in a similar fashion to Foxit so I think I will be sticking with Foxit for the time being.

By: Jawwad

Jawwad — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:57:26 +0000

I have to agree that PDF XChange is the best for now.

By: Kip

Kip — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:17:03 +0000

I prefer PDF Xchange Viewer too – especially since a free portable version is now available. No installation and a set of markup tools make it a must-have
http://www.docu-track.com/downloads/users/

By: Tobey

Tobey — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:38:08 +0000

1 more satisfied Foxit user here, never had a reason to try another viewer..

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:47:45 +0000

I used Foxit for years, but recently switched to PDF XChange Viewer. For my eyes, the latter renders the text more clearly. Try a side-by-side comparison.

By: noris

noris — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:29:07 +0000

The only features that sumatra lack of is zooming using CTRL + mousescroll with available in both Foxit and Reader.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:16:51 +0000

I might have to add that I’m using a PDF Reader only for viewing purposes and no other fancy stuff.

I have not tried Foxit for a long time, might give it a shot.

By: MM

MM — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:54:24 +0000

My own observations are contrary to yours. I find that Adobe Reader 8 is actually snappier to deal with heavy pdf files (specially graphic intensive ones) than Sumatra, Foxit or PDF XChange Viewer.

The problem with Adobe Reader is that it is slow to startup and heavy on the resources, but once it is loaded it is the fastest pdf viewer around. The Adobe Reader Lite version ameliorates most of these problems.

If all you use is the occasional small PDF with a bit of text, Sumatra is great. I use Sumatra as my default viewer, but for heavy duty Adobe is hard to beat.

By: zzzZZZzzz

zzzZZZzzz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:52:17 +0000

I’ve just tested Sumatra.. Well it even doesn’t seem to have a text selection tool; or I cannot find it.

So for instant I keep the bloated Acrobat Reader.. it fits best to my needs.