What's new in SumatraPDF Portable 3.5.2
Oct 25, 2023
- Fix not showing tab text
- Make menus in dark themes look more like standard menus (bigger padding)
- Fix Bookmarks for folder showing bad file names
- Update translations
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.5.1 (Oct 24, 2023)
- Fix uninstaller crash
- Disable lazy loading of files when restoring a session
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.5 (Oct 23, 2023)
- Arm 64-bit builds
- dark mode (menu Settings / Theme or Ctrl + K command Next theme) you can use i (invert colors) to match the background / text color of rendered PDF document. Due to technical limitations, it doesn’t work well with images
- i (invert colors) is remembered in settings
- CmdEditAnnotation select annotation under cursor and open annotation edit window
- rename CmdShowCursorPosition => CmdToggleCursorPosition
- add Annotations [ FreeTextColor, FreeTextSize, FreeTextBorderWidth ] settings
- ability to move annotations. Ctrl + click to select annotation and them move via drag & drop
- add CmdCommandPaletteOnlyTabs command with Alt + K shortcut
- exit full screen / presentation modes via double click with left mouse button
- ability to drag out a tab to open it in new window
- support opening .avif images (including inside .cbz/,cbr files)
- respect image orientation exif metadata in .jpeg and .png images
- support Adobe Reader syntax for opening files /A "page=<pageno>#nameddest=<dest>search=<string>
- add Next Tab / Prev Tab commands with Ctrl + PageUp / Ctrl + PageDown shortcuts
- keep Home tab open; add NoHomeTab advanced option to d`isable that
- add context menu to tabs
- bugfix: handle files we can’t open in next file in folder / prev file in folder commands
- command palette: when search starts with >, only show commands, not files (like in Visual Studio Code)
- add reopen last closed command (Ctrl + Shift + T, like in web browsers)
- add clear history command
- can send commands via DDE
- added CmdOpenWithExplorer, CmdOpenWithDirectoryOpus, CmdOpenWithTotalCommander, CmdOpenWithDoubleCommander commands
- enable CmdCloseOtherTabs, CmdCloseTabsToTheRight commands from command palette
- recognize PgUp / PgDown and a few more in keyboard shortcuts
- add -disable-auto-rotation cmd-line print option
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.6 (Jun 9, 2022)
- Fix crashes
- Fix deadlock in Fit Content mode and Bookmark links
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.5 (Jun 7, 2022)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.4 (Jun 3, 2022)
- Restore HOME and END in find edit field.
- Fix crashes.
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.3 (May 30, 2022)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.2 (May 28, 2022)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4.1 (May 25, 2022)
- Fix downloading of symbols for better crash reports.
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.4 (May 25, 2022)
- 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
- 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 SmoothScrolling advanced setting)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.3.3 (Jul 21, 2021)
- Fix a crash in PdfFilter.dll.
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.3.2 (Jul 20, 2021)
- Restore showing Table Of Contents for .chm files
- Fix crashes
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.3.1 (Jul 15, 2021)
- Fix rotation in DjVu documents
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.3 (Jul 6, 2021)
- 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
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.2 (Mar 16, 2020)
- 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.
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.1.2 (Aug 15, 2016)
- fixed issue with icons being purple in latest Windows 10 update
- tell Windows 10 that SumatraPDF can open supported file types
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.1.1 (Nov 2, 2015)
- Changes in this release:
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.1 (Oct 25, 2015)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 3.0 (Oct 20, 2014)
- Changes in this release:
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.5.2 (May 15, 2014)
- use less memory for comic book files
- PDF rendering fixes
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.5.1 (May 7, 2014)
- hopefully fix frequent ebook crashes
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.5 (May 6, 2014)
- Changes in this release:
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.4 (Oct 2, 2013)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.3.2 (May 27, 2013)
- fix changing a language via Settings/Change Language
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.3.1 (May 24, 2013)
- No longer using SSE2 to support old computers
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.3 (May 22, 2013)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.2.1 (Jan 14, 2013)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.2 (Dec 26, 2012)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.1.1 (May 8, 2012)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.1.0 (May 4, 2012)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.0.1 (Apr 9, 2012)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 2.0 (Apr 3, 2012)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.9 (Nov 24, 2011)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.8 (Oct 7, 2011)
- improved support for PDF form text fields
- various minor improvements and bug fixes
- speedup handling some types of djvu files
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.7 (Jul 19, 2011)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.6 (May 31, 2011)
- 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.
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.5.1 (Apr 27, 2011)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.5 (Apr 25, 2011)
- 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)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.4 (Mar 14, 2011)
- browser plugin for Firefox/Chrome/Opera (Internet Explorer is not supported). It's not installed by default so you have to check the appropriate 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.3 (Feb 5, 2011)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.2 (Dec 1, 2010)
- mproved 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.1 (Dec 1, 2010)
- 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)
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.0.1 (Dec 1, 2010)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.0 (Dec 1, 2010)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 1.0 (Dec 1, 2010)
- lots of small bug fixes and improvements
New in SumatraPDF Portable 0.9.4 (Jul 29, 2009)
- 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
New in SumatraPDF Portable 0.9.3 (Oct 13, 2008)
- fix an issue with opening non-ascii files
- updated Japanese and Brazillian translation
New in SumatraPDF Portable 0.5 (Mar 26, 2007)
- 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 -- and --- keybindings to rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise (just like Acrobat Reader)
- fixed a crash or two