Version history

SumatraPDF documentation

Version history

3.4.6 (2022-06-08)

fix crashes
fix hang in Fit Content mode and Bookmark links

3.4.5 (2022-06-05)

fix crashes

3.4.4 (2022-06-02)

restore HOME and END in find edit field
fix crashes

3.4.3 (2022-05-29)

re-enable Backspace in edit field
fix installation for all users when using custom installation directory
re-enable Copy Image context menu for comic book files
fix display of some PDF images
fix slow loading of some ePub files

3.4.2 (2022-05-27)

make keyboard accelerators work when tree view has focus
fix -set-color-range and -bg-color replacing MainWindowBackground
fix crash with incorrectly defined selection handlers

RSS/Atom feed.

3.4.1 (2022-05-25)

fix downloading of symbols for better crash reports

3.4 (2022-05-24)

Command Palette
customizable keyboard shortcuts
better support for epub files using mupdf's epub engine. Adds text selection and search in ebook files. Better rendering fidelity. On the downside, might be slower.
search / translate selected text with web services
- we have few built-in and you can add your own
installer: -all-users cmd-line arg for system-wide install
added Annotations.TextIconColor and TextIconType advanced settings
added Annotations.UnderlineColor advanced setting
added Annotations.DefaultAuthor advanced setting
i keyboard shortcuts inverts document colors Shift + i does what i used to do i.e. show page number
u and Shift + u keyboard shortcuts adds underline annotation for currently selected text
Delete / Backspace keyboard shortcuts delete an annotation under mouse cursor
support .svg files
faster scrolling with mouse wheel when cursor over scrollbar
add -search cmd-line option and [Search("<file>", "<search-term>")] DDE command
a way to get list of used fonts in properties window
support opening .heic image files (if Windows heic codec is installed)
add experimental smooth scrolling (enabled with SmoothScroll advanced setting)

3.3.3 (2021-07-20)

fix a crash in PdfFilter.dll

3.3.2 (2021-07-19)

restore showing Table Of Contents for .chm files
fix crashes

3.3.1 (2021-07-14)

fix rotation in DjVu documents

3.3 (2021-07-06)

added support for adding / removing / editing annotations in PDF files. Read the tutorial
new toolbar
- changed toolbar to scale with DPI by using new, vector icons
- added rotate left / right to the toolbar
- new toolbar:
added ability to hide scrollbar (more screen space for the document). Use right-click context menu.
add -paperkind=${num} printing option (checkin)

Minor improvements and bug-fixes::

advanced setting to change font size in bookmarks / favorites tree view e.g. TreeFontSize = 12
support newer versions of ghostscript (≥ 9.54) for opening .ps files
support jpeg-xr images in .xps files
restore tooltips (regression in 3.2)
update mupdf to latest version
make silent installation always silent
don't crash when attempting to zoom in on home page
don't show "manga" view menu item for documents that are not comic books
allow opening fb2.zip files (#1657)
restore ability to save embedded files (fixes #1557)
Alt + Space opens a sys menu

3.2 (2020-03-15)

This release upgrades the core PDF parsing and rendering library mupdf to the latest version. This fixes PDF rendering bugs and improves performance.

Added support multiple windows with tabs:

added File / New Window (Ctrl-n) which opens a new window
to compare the same file side-by-side, Ctrl-Shift-n shortcut opens current file a new window. The same file is now opened in 2 windows that you can re-arrange as needed
-new-window cmd-line option will open the document in new window
if you hold SHIFT when drag&dropping files from Explorer (and other apps), the file will be opened in a new window

Improved management of favorites:

context menu (right mouse click) on the document area adds menu items for:
- showing / hiding favorites view
- adding current page to favorites (or removing if already is in favorites)
context menu in bookmarks view adds menu item for adding selected page to favorites

This release no longer supports Windows XP. Latest version that support XP is 3.1.2 that you can download from

https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/download-prev.html

3.1.2 (2016-08-14)

fixed issue with icons being purple in latest Windows 10 update
tell Windows 10 that SumatraPDF can open supported file types

3.1.1 (2015-11-02)

(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

3.1 (2015-10-24)

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

3.0 (2014-10-18)

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

2.5.2 (2014-05-13)

use less memory for comic book files
PDF rendering fixes

2.5.1 (2014-05-07)

hopefully fix frequent ebook crashes

2.5 (2014-05-05)

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

2.4 (2013-10-01)

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

2.3.2 (2013-05-25)

fix changing a language via Settings/Change Language

2.3.1 (2013-05-23)

don't require SSE2 (to support old computers without SSE2 support)

2.3 (2013-05-22)

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
downside: this release no longer supports very old processors without SSE2 instructions. Using SSE2 makes Sumatra faster. If you have an old computer without SSE2, you need to use 2.2.1.

2.2.1 (2013-01-12)

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

2.2 (2012-12-24)

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

2.1.1 (2012-05-07)

fixes for a few crashes

2.1 (2012-05-03)

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

2.0.1 (2012-04-08)

fix loading .mobi files from command line
fix a crash loading multiple .mobi files at once
fix a crash showing tooltips for table of contents tree entries

2.0 (2012-04-02)

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

1.9 (2011-11-23)

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

1.8 (2011-09-18)

improved support for PDF form text fields
various minor improvements and bug fixes
speedup handling some types of djvu files

1.7 (2011-07-18)

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

1.6 (2011-05-30)

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.

1.5.1 (2011-04-26)

fixes for rare crashes

1.5 (2011-04-23)

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)

1.4 (2011-03-12)

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 installer
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

1.3 (2011-02-04)

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

1.2 (2010-11-26)

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

1.1 (2010-05-20)

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 shown correctly)
misc bug fixes and small improvements in UI
add Ctrl + and Ctrl – as shortcuts for zooming (matches Adobe Reader)

1.0.1 (2009-11-27)

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

1.0 (2009-11-17)

lots of small bug fixes and improvements

0.9.4 (2009-07-19)

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

0.9.3 (2008-10-07)

fix an issue with opening non-ascii files
updated Japanese and Brazillian translation

0.9.2 (2008-10-06)

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

0.9.1 (2008-08-22)

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

0.9 (2008-08-10)

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

0.8.1 (2008-05-27)

automatic reloading of changed PDFs (contributed by William Blum)
tex integration (contributed by William Blum)
updated icon for case-sensitivity selection in find (contributed by Sonke Tesch)
language change is now a separate dialog instead of a menu
remember more settings (like default view)
automatic checks for new versions
add command-line option -lang $lang
add command-line option -print-dialog (contributed by Peter Astrand)
ESC or single mouse click hides selection
fix showing boxes in table of contents tree
translation updates

0.8 (2008-01-01)

added search (contributed by MrChuoi)
added table of contents (contributed by MrChuoi)
added many translation
new program icon
fixed printing
fixed some crashes
rendering speedups
fixed loading of some PDFs
add command-line option -esc-to-exit
add command-line option -bgcolor $color

0.7 (2007-07-28)

added ability to select the text and copy to clipboard - contributed by Tomek Weksej
made it multi-lingual (13 translations)
added Save As option
list of recently opened files is updated immediately
fixed .pdf extension registration on Vista
added ability to compile as DLL and C# sample application - contributed by Valery Possoz
mingw compilation fixes and project files for CodeBlocks - contributed by MrChuoi
fixed a few crashes
moved the sources to Google Code project hosting

0.6 (2007-04-29)

enable opening password-protected PDFs
don't allow printing in PDFs that have printing forbidden
don't automatically reopen files at startup
fix opening PDFs from network shares
new, better icon
reload the document when changing rendering engine
improve cursor shown when dragging
fix toolbar appearance on XP and Vista with classic theme
when MuPDF engine cannot load a file or render a page, we fallback to poppler engine to make rendering more robust
fixed a few crashes

0.5 (2007-03-04)

fixed rendering problems with some PDF files
speedups - the application should feel be snappy and there should be less waiting for rendering
added 'r' keybinding for reloading currently open PDF file
added <Ctrl>-<Shift>-+ and <Ctrl>-<Shift>-- keybindings to rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise (just like Acrobat Reader)
fixed a crash or two

0.4 (2007-02-18)

printing
ask before registering as a default handler for PDF files
faster rendering thanks to alternative PDF rendering engine. Previous engine is available as well.
scrolling with mouse wheel
fix toolbar issues on win2k
improve the way fonts directory is found
improvements to portable mode
uninstaller completely removes the program
changed name of preferences files from prefs.txt to sumatrapdfprefs.txt

0.3 (2006-11-25)

added toolbar for most frequently used operations
should be more snappy because rendering is done in background and it caches one page ahead
some things are faster

0.2 (2006-08-06)

added facing, continuous and continuous facing viewing modes
remember history of opened files
session saving i.e. on exit remember which files are opened and restore the session when the program is started without any command-line parameters
ability to open encrypted files
"Go to page dialog"
less invasive (less yellow) icon that doesn't jump at you on desktop
fixed problem where sometimes text wouldn't show (better mapping for fonts; use a default font if can't find the font specified in PDF file)
handle URI links inside PDF documents
show "About" screen
provide a download in a .zip file for those who can't run installation program
switched to poppler code instead of xpdf

0.1 (2006-06-01)

first version released