SumatraPDF can be configured for restricted use.
Restricted mode is useful if you want to use SumatraPDF as a bundled viewer for your program’s documentation or in kiosk mode.
In restricted mode, some actions that are not appropriate in such contexts are disabled:
- opening new files
- launching URLs from within PDF documents
- text and image selection
- printing
- changing default settings
- saving to disk
- automatic and manual update checks
- a history of recently opened files
- TeX preview support
- registering as a default PDF viewer
- opening with Adobe Acrobat
- emailing PDFs
To restrict SumatraPDF, put the
sumatrapdfrestrict.ini file in the same directory as SumatraPDF.exe.Here is the full documentation for the available options.
To disable only auto-detected URL, email, and plain-text DOI links in PDF text (not embedded hyperlinks), use
DisableAutoLinks in normal advanced settings instead — see Hyperlinks.