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
- search / translate selected text
with web services
- 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
SmoothScrolling 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
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)
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)
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)