Version history for Sumatra PDF
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Changes for v3.1.2 - v3.2
- upgraded core PDF parsing rendering to latest version of mupdf. Faster, less bugs.
- support for multiple windows
- improved management of favorites
- dropped support for Windows XP. Use 3.1.2 on XP.
Changes for v3.1.1 - v3.1.2
- fixed issue with icons being purple in latest Windows 10 update
- tell Windows 10 that SumatraPDF can open supported file types
Changes for v3.1 - v3.1.1
- (re)add support for old processors that don’t have SSE2
- support newer versions of unrar.dll
- allow keeping browser plugin if it’s already installed
- crash fixes
Changes for v3.0 - v3.1
- 64bit builds
- all documents are restored at startup if a window with multiple tabs is closed (or if closing happened through File -> Exit); this can be disabled through the RestoreSession advanced setting
- printing happens (again) always as image which leads to more reliable results at the cost of requiring more printer memory; the "Print as Image" advanced printing option has been removed
- scrolling with touchpad (e.g. on Surface Pro) now works
- many crash and other bug fixes
Changes for v2.5.2 - v3.0
- Tabs! Enabled by default. Use Settings/Options... menu to go back to the old UI
- support table of contents and links in ebook UI
- add support for PalmDoc ebooks
- add support for displaying CB7 and CBT comic books (in addition to CBZ and CBR)
- add support for LZMA and PPMd compression in CBZ comic books
- allow saving Comic Book files as PDF
- swapped keybindings:
- F11 : Fullscreen mode (still also Ctrl+Shift+L)
- F5 : Presentation mode (also Shift+F11, still also Ctrl+L)
- added a document measurement UI. Press 'm' to start. Keep pressing 'm' to change measurement units
- new advanced settings: FullPathInTitle, UseSysColors (no longer exposed through the Options dialog), UseTabs
- replaced non-free UnRAR with a free RAR extraction library. If some CBR files fail to open for you, download unrar.dll from http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm and place it alongside SumatraPDF.exe
- deprecated browser plugin. We keep it if was installed in earlier version
Changes for v2.5 - v2.5.2
- use less memory for comic book files
- PDF rendering fixes
- 2.5.1
- hopefully fix frequent ebook crashes
Changes for v2.4 - v2.5
- 2 page view for ebooks
- new keybindings:
- Ctrl+PgDn, Ctrl+Right : go to next page
- Ctrl+PgUp, Ctrl+Left : go to previous page
- 10x faster ebook layout
- support JP2 images
- new advanced settings: ShowMenuBar, ReloadModifiedDocuments, CustomScreenDPI
- left/right clicking no longer changes pages in fullscreen mode (use Presentation mode if you rely on this feature)
- fixed multiple crashes and made multiple minor improvements
Changes for v2.3.2 - v2.4
- Changes in this release:
- full-screen mode for ebooks (Ctrl-L)
- new key bindings:
- F9 - show/hide menu (not remembered after quitting)
- F8 - show/hide toolbar
- support WebP images (standalone and in comic books)
- support for RAR5 compressed comic books
- fixed multiple crashes
Changes for v2.3.1 - v2.3.2
- •fix changing a language via Settings/Change Language
Changes for v2.3 - v2.3.1
- no longer using SSE2 to support old computers
Changes for v2.2.1 - v2.3
- Greater configurability via advanced settings
- "Go To Page" in ebook ui
- add View/Manga Mode menu item for Comic Book (CBZ/CBR) files
- new key bindings:
- Ctrl-Up : page up
- Ctrl-Down : page down
- add support for OpenXPS documents
- support Deflate64 in Comic Book (CBZ/CBR) files
- fixed missing paragraph indentation in EPUB documents
- printing with "Use original page sizes" no longer centers pages on paper
- reduced size. Installer is ~1MB smaller
Changes for v2.2 - v2.2.1
- fixed ebooks sometimes not remembering the viewing position
- fixed Sumatra not exiting when opening files from a network drive
- fixes for most frequent crashes and PDF parsing robustness fixes
Changes for v2.1.1 - v2.2
- add support for FictionBook ebook format
- add support for PDF documents encrypted with Acrobat X
- “Print as image” compatibility option in print dialog for documents that fail to print properly
- new command-line option: -manga-mode [1|true|0|false] for proper display of manga comic books
- many robustness fixes and small improvements
Changes for v2.0.1 - v2.1.1
- support for EPUB ebook format
- added File/Rename menu item to rename currently viewed file (contributed by Vasily Fomin)
- support multi-page TIFF files
- support TGA images
- support for some comic book (CBZ) metadata
- support JPEG XR images (available on Windows Vista or later, for Windows XP the Windows Imaging Component has to be installed)
- the installer is now signed
- fixes for a few crashes
Changes for v1.9 - v2.0
- support for MOBI eBook format
- support opening CHM documents from network drives
- a selection can be copied to a clipboard as an image by using right-click context menu
- using ucrt to reduce program size
Changes for v1.8 - v1.9
- support for CHM documents
- support touch gestures, available on Windows 7 or later. Contributed by Robert Prouse
- open linked audio and video files in an external media player
- improved support for PDF transparency groups
Changes for v1.7 - v1.8
- improved support for PDF form text fields
- various minor improvements and bug fixes
- speedup handling some types of djvu files
Changes for v1.6 - v1.7
- favorites
- improved support for right-to-left languages e.g. Arabic
- logical page numbers are displayed and used, if a document provides them (such as i, ii, iii, etc.)
- allow to restrict SumatraPDF's features with more granularity; see sumatrapdfrestric.init for documentation
- -named-dest also matches strings in table of contents
- improved support for EPS files (requires Ghostscript)
- more robust installer
- many minor improvements and bugfixes
Changes for v1.5.1 - v1.6
- add support for displaying DjVu documents
- display Frequently Read list when no document is open
- add support for displaying Postscript documents (requires recent Ghostscript version to be already installed)
- add support for displaying a folder containing images: drag the folder to SumatraPDF window
- support clickable links and a Table of Content for XPS documents
- display printing progress and allow to cancel it
- add Print toolbar button
- experimental: previewing of PDF documents in Windows Vista and 7. Creates thumbnails and displays documents in Explorer's Preview pane. Needs to be explicitly selected during install process. We've had reports that it doesn't work on Windows 7 x64.
Changes for v1.5 - v1.5.1
- fixes for rare crashes
Changes for v1.4 - v1.5
- add support for viewing XPS documents
- add support for viewing CBZ and CBR comic books
- add File/Save Shortcut menu item to create shortcuts to a specific place in a document
- add context menu for copying text, link addresses and comments. In browser plugin it also adds saving and printing commands
- add folder browsing (Ctrl+Shift+Right opens next PDF document in the current folder, Ctrl+Shift+Left opens previous document)
Changes for v1.3 - v1.4
- browser plugin for Firefox/Chrome/Opera (Internet Explorer is not supported). It's not installed by default so you have to check the apropriate checkbox in the installer
- IFilter that enables full-text search of PDF files in Windows Desktop Search (i.e. search from Windows Vista/7's Start Menu). Also not installed by default
- scrolling with right mouse button
- you can choose a custom installation directory in the intstaller
- menu items for re-opening current document in Foxit and PDF-XChange (if they're installed)
- we no longer compress the installer executable with mpress. It caused some anti-virus programs to falsely report Sumatra as a virus. The downside is that the binaries on disk are now bigger. Note: we still compress the portable .zip version
- -title cmd-line option was removed
- support for AES-256 encrypted PDF documents
- fixed an integer overflow reported by Jeroen van der Gun and and other small fixes and improvements to PDF handling
Changes for v1.2 - v1.3
- Changes in this relase:
- improved text selection and copying. We now mimic the way a browser or Adobe Reader works: just select text with mouse and use Ctrl-C to copy it to a clipboard
- Shift+Left Mouse now scrolls the document, Ctrl+Left mouse still creates a rectangular selection (for copying images)
- 'c' shortcut toggles continuous mode
- '+' / '*' on the numeric keyboard now do zoom and rotation
- added toolbar icons for Fit Page and Fit Width and updated the look of toolbar icons
- add support for back/forward mouse buttons for back/forward navigation
- 1.2 introduces a new full screen mode and made it the default full screen mode. Old mode was still available but not easily discoverable. We've added View/Presentation menu item for new full screen mode and View/Fullscreen menu item for the old full screen mode, to make it more discoverable
- new, improved installer
- improved zoom performance (zooming to 6400% no longer crashes)
- text find uses less memory
- further printing improvements
- translation updates
- updated to latest mupdf for misc bugfixes and improvements
- use libjpeg-turbo library instead of libjpeg, for faster decoding of some PDFs
- updated openjpeg library to version 1.4 and freetype to version 2.4.4
- fixed 2 integer overflows reported by Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research
- Contributors to this release:
- Simon Bünzli (zeniko)
- Krzysztof Kowalczyk
Changes for v1.1 - v1.2
- Contributors to this release:
- Simon Bünzli (zeniko)
- William Blum
- Krzysztof Kowalczyk
- Changes in this relase:
- improved printing: faster and uses less resources
- add Ctrl-Y as a shortcut for Custom Zoom
- add Ctrl-A as a shortcut for Select All Text
- improved full screen mode
- open embedded PDF documents
- allow saving PDF document attachements to disk
- latest fixes and improvements to PDF rendering from mupdf project
Changes for v1.0.1 - v1.1
- added book view (“View/Book View” menu item) option. It’s known as “Show Cover Page During Two-Up” in Adobe Reader
- added “File/Properties” menu item, showing basic information about PDF file
- added “File/Send by email” menu
- added export as text. When doing “File/Save As”, change “Save As types” from “PDF documents” to “Text documents”. Don’t expect miracles, though. Conversion to text is not very good in most cases.
- auto-detect commonly used TeX editors for inverse-search command
- bug fixes to PDF handling (more PDFs are shwon correctly)
- misc bug fixes and small improvements in UI
- add Ctrl + and Ctrl – as shortcuts for zooming (matches Adobe Reader)
Changes for v1.0 - v1.0.1
- many memory leaks fixed (Simon Bünzli)
- potential crash due to stack corruption (pointed out by Christophe Devine)
- making Sumatra default PDF reader no longer asks for admin priviledges on Vista/Windows 7
- translation updates
Changes for v0.9.4 - v1.0
- lots of small bug fixes and improvements
Changes for v0.9.3 - v0.9.4
- improved PDF compatibility (more types of documents can be rendered)
- added settings dialog (contributed by Simon Bünzli)
- improvements in handling unicode
- changed default view from single page to continuous
- SyncTex improvements (contributed by William Blum)
- add option to not remember opened files
- a new icon for documents association (contributed by George Georgiou)
- lots of bugfixes and UI polish
Changes for v0.9.2 - v0.9.3
- fix an issue with opening non-ascii files
- updated Japanese and Brazillian translation
Changes for v0.9.1 - v0.9.2
- ability to disable auto-update check
- improved text rendering - should fix problems with overlapping text
- improved font substition for fonts not present in PDF file
- can now open PDF files with non-ascii names
- improvements to DDE (contributed by Danilo Roascio)
- SyncTex improvements
- improve persistance of state (contributed by Robert Liu)
- fix crash when pressing 'Cancel' when entering a password
- updated translations
Changes for v0.9 - v0.9.1
- improved rendering of some PDFs
- support for links inside PDF file
- added -restrict and -title cmd-line options (contributed by Matthew Wilcoxson)
- enabled SyncTex support which mistakenly disabled in 0.9
- misc fixes and translation updates
Changes for v0.8.1 - v0.9
- add Ctrl-P as print shortcut
- add F11 as full-screen shortcut
- password dialog no longer shows the password
- support for AES-encrypted PDF files
- updates to SyncTeX/PdfSync integration (contributed by William Blum)
- add -nameddest command-line option and DDE commands for jumping to named destination(contributed by Alexander Klenin)
- add -reuse-instance command-line option (contributed by William Blum)
- add DDE command to open PDF file (contributed by William Blum)
- removed poppler rendering engine resulting in smaller program and updated to latest mupdf sources
- misc bugfixes and translation updates
