Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast PDF reader for Windows. It supports many different format including DF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR). Also Sumatra PDF is designed for portable use: it’s just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive. Than Sumatra PDF is for you! The lightweight program is a free open source PDF, XPS, eBook (ePub, Mobi), CHM, DjVI and Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader running on Windows. SumatraPDF starts very fast and comes with a clean and simple interface. When comparing Sumatra vs Calibre, the Slant community recommends Calibre for most people. What are the best ebook converters for the Mac? What is the best Windows eBook reader? What are the best RSS readers for Linux? What is the best Linux eBook reader?
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This is a list of links to articles on software used to manage Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. The distinction between the various functions is not entirely clear-cut; for example, some viewers allow adding of annotations, signatures, etc. Some software allows redaction, removing content irreversibly for security. Extracting embedded text is a common feature, but other applications perform optical character recognition (OCR) to convert imaged text to machine-readable form, sometimes by using an external OCR module.
- 2Multi-platform
- 3AmigaOS
- 5macOS
- 6Microsoft Windows
- 8Web-based
Terminology[edit]
- Converters: These allow users to convert PDF files to other formats.
- Creators: Software to convert other formats to PDF.
- Editors: These allow users to modify an existing PDF file.
Multi-platform[edit]
| Name | License | Platforms | Converts PDF to other format | Edits existing PDF | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Mac | Windows | Other | |||||
| GIMP | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Converts PDF to raster images | ||
| ImageMagick | Apache | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Converts PDF to raster images and vice versa | ||
| LibreOffice | GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Import from PDF (extension included by default), export as PDF including PDF/A. | ||
| OpenOffice.org | GNU LGPLv3 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Import from PDF (with restrictions) (after installing an extension), export as PDF including PDF/A. | ||
| PDFBox | Apache License | Yes | Yes | Unix | Yes | Converts PDF to other file format (text, images, html, ...) | ||
| Poppler-utils | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Unix | Yes | Converts PDF to other file format (text, images, html, ...) | ||
| pstoedit | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Unix | Yes | Converts PostScript to (other) vector graphics file format | ||
| QPDF | Apache License 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Structural, content-preserving transformations from PDF to PDF | |||
| pdf-parser | Public Domain | Python script | Yes | Extraction and analysis tool, handles corrupt and malicious PDF documents | ||||
| Solid Converter PDF | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | PDF to Word, Excel, HTML and Text; supports passwords, text editing, and batch conversion | |||
| SWFTools | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | SWF conversion and manipulation suite containing a standalone PDF to SWF converter along with a Python gfx API ( requires Xpdf ) | ||
| Smallpdf Desktop | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Supports merging, splitting, and extracting pages from PDFs. Also rotating, deleting and reordering pages. Converts PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, raster images. | ||
| Nitro PDF | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Converts PDF to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, raster images . Rich UI, allows combining PDFs, converting to other formats, editing (add images, shapes, text, etc.) | |||
| Mobipocket Creator | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Import from PDF and create HTML and MOBI output | ||||
| Inkscape | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Import-/Export- from PDF to (Vector-)graphics. Export documents only one page at a time (pages can be later combined using PDF printer) | ||
| Scribus | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Unix, GNU/Hurd, Haiku, OS/2 | Yes | Yes | Export PDF and many other formats, multi-pages and multi-layers. Supports JS forms |
| LibreOffice Draw | GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PDF viewing and editing. Has many of the features offered by Acrobat. | |
| OpenOffice Draw | GNU LGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | PDF import via OpenOffice.org software, or extensions | ||
| PDFedit | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | BSD | Yes | Software to view or edit the internal structures of PDF documents, and merge them | ||
| Pdftk | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | FreeBSD, Solaris | Yes | Command-line tools to edit and convert documents; supports filling of PDF forms with FDF/XFDF data. GUI front-end exists | |
| PDF Studio | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Full feature PDF editor | ||
| Karbon | GNU GPL/LGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | BSD, Solaris/Illumos | Yes | Import PDF with multiple pages as layouts, export as a one-page PDF. All standard vector graphics editor features. | |
| Serif PagePlus | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Desktop publishing (DTP) application allows opening and editing of PDF documents; Allows compatible saving as PDF 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 and supports also PDF/X1, PDF/X1a and PDF/X-3 | ||||
| Soda PDF | Proprietary | Yes | Mac OS X | Yes | Modular PDF software | |||
Development libraries[edit]
These are used by software developers to add and create PDF features.
| Name | License | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe PDF Library | Proprietary | C++, .NET, Java API with support for PDF editing, viewing, printing and text extractions |
| Apache PDFBox | Apache License | Java developer library for creating, view, extract, print PDF files. |
| Formatting Objects Processor | Apache License | Open-source print formatter driven by XSL Formatting Objects and an output independent formatter; main output target is PDF |
| iText | Proprietary/AGPL | Library to create and manipulate PDF, RTF, HTML files in Java, C#, and other .NET languages |
| JasperReports | GNU LGPL | Open-source Java reporting tool that can write to screen, printer, or into PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, RTF, ODT, comma-separated values and XML files |
| JPedal | Proprietary/GNU LGPL | Java developer library for viewing, extracting, and printing PDF files. |
| LEADTOOLS | Proprietary | .NET, C/C++, Java, and HTML5 developer library for reading, writing, viewing, annotating, and extracting text from PDF files. |
| libHaru | ZLIB/LIBPNG | Open-source, cross-platform C library to generate PDF files |
| OpenPDF | GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0 | Open source library to create and manipulate PDF files in Java. Fork of an older version of iText, but with the original LGPL / MPL license. |
| PDFsharp | MIT License | C# developer library to create, extract, edit PDF files. |
| PDFTron Systems | Proprietary | C, C++, C# .NET, JAVA, Objective-C, Python, Ruby and PHP library for creating, editing, annotating, optimizing and viewing PDF files. |
| podofo | GNU LGPL | Open-source C++ library to read and write the PDF files |
| Poppler | GNU GPL | Open-source multi-backend C++ library derived from Xpdf; no bundled viewer; incl. pdftohtml converter |
| TCPDF | GNU LGPL | Open-source PHP library to create PDF files |
Creators[edit]
These create files in their native formats, but then allow users to export them to PDF formats.
| Name | License | Platforms | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat | Proprietary | Windows, MacOS X | Desktop PDF authoring suite |
| Adobe Illustrator | Proprietary | Windows, MacOS X | Illustrator can save as PDF, and can recognize and edit text and graphics |
| FineReader | Proprietary | ? | OCR tool; can save as PDF, and recognize text from PDF |
| Ghostscript | Proprietary/AGPL | Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, UNIX | Viewer, creator, converter; supports also PDF/X-3; used by PdfCreator (until v1.7.3 then .NET Framework 4 since v2.0.0), WinPdf, BullzipPdf, CutePDF freeware version and others |
| Microsoft Office | Proprietary | Windows, Mac OS X | All Microsoft Office products from 2007 version allow users to Save as PDF |
| OpenOffice.org | GNU LGPL | Linux, Windows, Mac | All OpenOffice.org applications allow PDF export; supports also PDF/A-1a; since many import formats are supported (e.g., doc, docx, rtf, xls, ppt) conversion is also possible |
| LibreOffice | GNU LGPLv3 / MPLv2.0 | Linux, Windows, Mac | All LibreOffice applications allow PDF export; supports also PDF/A-1a; since many import formats are supported (e.g., doc, docx, rtf, xls, ppt) conversion is also possible |
| Serif PagePlus | Proprietary | Windows | Desktop publishing (DTP) application; Allows compatible saving as PDF 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.7 and supports also PDF/X1, PDF/X1a and PDF/X-3 |
| PageStream | Proprietary | ? | Cross-platform desktop publishing application to open, edit, export |
| Prince | Proprietary | Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, | Converts HTML, XML, SVG, and MathML to PDF by way of CSS |
| Scribus | GNU GPL | Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation and Windows desktops | Cross-platform desktop publishing (DTP) application; supports also PDF/X-3 |
| LaTeX, TeX | LaTeX Project Public License, Permissive | ? | Mark-up language and tools to write technical reports, books, magazines, almost any publication type |
| LuaTeX | GNU GPL | ? | TeX typesetting system that creates PDF documents |
| pdfTeX | GNU GPL | ? | TeX typesetting system that creates PDF documents |
| XeTeX | MIT | ? | TeX typesetting system that creates PDF documents |
Viewers[edit]
These allow users to view (not edit or modify) any existing PDF file.
| Name | License | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Reader | Proprietary, freeware | Adobe's PDF reader |
| DigiSigner | Proprietary, freeware | PDF viewer with added function to digitally sign PDF documents |
| Evince | GNU GPL | Universal viewer for GNOME. |
| Mozilla Firefox | MPL 2.0 | JavaScript-based built-in viewer, based on PDF.js. |
| Foxit Reader | Proprietary, adware | PDF Viewer / Reader for Desktop computer and Mobile Devices. Allows users to add many elements to PDFs (e.g. arrowed comment boxes, text boxes, links, bookmarks, and images). |
| Ghostview | Aladdin Free Public License | A graphical interface for Ghostscript |
| Google Chrome | Proprietary, freeware | Browser includes PDF viewer functionality. |
| MuPDF | Proprietary/AGPL | PDF conversion and rendering with anti-aliased graphics. |
| PDF.js | Apache License 2.0 | A JavaScript library to convert PDF files into HTML5, usable as a web-based viewer that can be included in web browsers. |
| Qiqqa | Proprietary, freeware | View PDFs in a variety of zoom layouts, annotate, tag, search, cross-reference. |
| Utopia Documents | GNU GPL v3 | Semantic scientific PDF reader (optimised for life sciences and medicine), allows public comments on PDFs, generates on-the-fly link-outs to scientific databases and resources when used while online |
| Xpdf | GNU GPL/Proprietary | Multi-platform viewer; source and binaries available for Linux, Windows and Macintosh |
AmigaOS[edit]
Converters[edit]
- Antiword: A free Microsoft Office Word reader for various operating systems; converts binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text or PostScript; available for AmigaOS 4, MorphOS, AROS x86
- dvipdfm: a DVI to PDF translator with zlib support
Viewers[edit]
- Xpdf: a multi-platform viewer for PDF files, Amiga version uses X11 engine Cygnix.
Linux and Unix[edit]
| Name | License | Functions | Description | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| View | Annotate | Edit | Create | Convert | Library | |||
| Okular | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | KDE desktop environment; replaces KPDF. Supports a range of annotation types. Annotations are stored separately from the unmodified PDF file, or (since version 0.15 with Poppler 0.20) can be saved in the document as standard PDF annotations. | ||||
| Evince | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Default PDF and file viewer for GNOME; replaces GPdf. Supports addition and removal (since v3.14), of basic text note annotations. | ||||
| CUPS | Free | No | No | No | Yes | Printing system can render any document to a PDF file, thus any Linux program with print capability can produce PDF files | ||
| Pdftk | GPLv2 | No | Yes | Yes | Command-line tools to merge, split, en-/decrypt, watermark/stamp and manipulate PDF document files. Front end to an older version of the iText library. | |||
| poppler | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Utility library for rendering Portable Document Format (PDF) documents. poppler-utils includes command-line tools to extract images from a PDF (pdfimages) and convert a PDF to other formats (pdftohtml, pdftotext, pdftoppm). | ||||
| ps2pdf | GNU AGPL | Yes | Part of Ghostscript; converts a PostScript file to a PDF. | |||||
| SWFTools | GNU GPL | Yes | pdf2swf component converts PDF to SWF. | |||||
| Scribus | GNU GPL | Yes | Open source program for page layout. | |||||
| Xpdf | GNU GPL | Yes | Yes | Open source multi-backend library for viewing and manipulating PDF files. Bundled with a viewer with the same name for the X Window System. | ||||
| PDF Studio | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Software for viewing and editing PDF documents | ||||
| Inkscape | GNU GPL | Yes | Technically not a PDF editor, but can be used as such page by page | |||||
| Adobe Reader | Proprietary freeware | Yes | Extant versions are obsolete, Adobe has stopped support for Linux. | |||||
| Firefox | MPL | Yes | Includes a PDF viewer | |||||
| Google Chrome | Proprietary freeware | Yes | Includes a PDF viewer | |||||
| MuPDF | GNU AGPL | Yes | Yes | Lightweight document viewer. | ||||
| Zathura | Free | Yes | Lightweight document viewer with vim-like keybindings. | |||||
macOS[edit]
Converters[edit]
- deskUNPDF for Mac: proprietary application from Docudesk to convert PDF files to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice.org, image, and data file formats
Editors[edit]
- Adobe Acrobat: Proprietary PDF authoring suite
- PDF Expert: Proprietary PDF viewer and editor.
- PDF Studio: Proprietary software to view and edit PDF documents.
- PDF Signer: Proprietary; fills forms and embeds image signatures in PDF documents
Creators[edit]
- macOS: Creates PDF documents natively via print dialog
Viewers[edit]
- Safari: This bundled web browser has built-in support for reading PDF documents.
- Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer
- Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer
- Preview: macOS's default PDF viewer (in Mac OS X v10.5 and later, it also can rotate, reorder, annotate, insert, and delete pages. It can also merge files, create new files from existing files, and move pages between files.)
- Adobe Reader: Adobe Systems's reader which is also available for Macintosh; Safari plug-in available
- Skim, an open source (BSD licence) PDF reader and note-taker for Mac OS X
- Foxit Reader: Proprietary, freeware. Allows users to add elements to PDFs (e.g. arrowed comment boxes, text boxes, links, bookmarks, and images)
Microsoft Windows[edit]
Converters[edit]
- Adobe Acrobat: Can convert files into PDF or convert PDF files into other formats
- ABBYY FineReader: Commercial PDF converter which converts PDF into Word (.doc), Excel (.xls), PowerPoint (ppt), and more
- deskUNPDF: PDF converter to convert PDFs to Word (.doc, docx), Excel (.xls), (.csv), (.txt), more
- GSview: File:Convert menu item converts any sequence of PDF pages to a sequence of images in many formats from bit to tiffpack with resolutions from 72 to 204 × 98 (open source software)
- Google Chrome: convert HTML to PDF using Print > Save as PDF.
- gDoc Fusion: Proprietary, shareware; PDF views, edits, converts documents into PDF, XPS or Microsoft Word document; after 30 days a watermark is placed on documents in shareware version
- OmniPage: Converts to and from PDF and other formats with many options.
- Nitro PDF Reader: (Freeware) Extracts Images in original resolution.
- PDF-XChange: PDF Tools and PDF-XChange print driver allow conversion from many formats to PDF. A 'lite' version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) but places a watermark on documents
- Qiqqa: Converts Microsoft Word document and Web Pages to PDF.
- SWFTools: 'pdf2swf component converts PDF to SWF – command line with GUI wrapper
- poppler-utils a collection of tools builds on poppler to convert PDF contents to everything
- GraphicsMagick: Can convert PDF to PNG or other formats.
Creators[edit]
| Name | License | Freeware version | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bullzip PDF Printer | Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer, requires Ghostscript and PDFPowerTool. |
| CC PDF Converter | GNU GPL | — | Virtual Printer. Creates a PDF with embedded Creative Commons license from any software. Bundled with optional proprietary Razoss adware and browser tools. |
| CutePDF | Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer, also with proprietary PDF editor. Attempts to install the Ask Toolbar as well as Hotspot Shield. Can be avoided by using the /no3d command-line switch. Includes OpenCandy adware. |
| deskPDF | Proprietary | No | Available for both client and terminal servers. |
| doPDF | Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer. It doesn't use Ghostscript. Includes adware. |
| eCopy PaperWorks | Proprietary | No | |
| Foxit PhantomPDF | Proprietary | No | |
| Foxit Reader PDF Printer | Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer that comes with Foxit Reader. |
| gDoc Creator | Proprietary, shareware | No | Enterprise-level creator to create, review, edit, share or archive PDF and XPS documents. After 30 days shareware version places a watermark on documents. |
| HelpNDoc | Proprietary | Yes | Manual and documentation authoring tool with native PDF export. Free for personal use. |
| Nitro PDF Reader | Proprietary | Yes | As with Adobe Acrobat, Nitro PDF Pro's reader is free; but unlike Adobe's free reader, Nitro's free reader allows PDF creation (via a virtual printer driver, or by specifying a filename in the reader's interface, or by drag-'n-drop of a file to Nitro PDF Reader's Windows desktop icon); Ghostscript not needed. |
| NovaPDF | Proprietary | No | Virtual printer. |
| PagePlus | Proprietary | No | Desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing, editing and creation features |
| PaperPort | Proprietary | No | Desktop publishing suite with PDF viewing, editing and creation features |
| PDFCreator | GNU GPL/Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer for Windows using a custom license called FairPlay. Used Ghostscript GPL until v1.7.3. Now uses .NET Framework 4. Includes adware. |
| PDF24 Creator | Proprietary | Yes | A PDF creator for Microsoft Windows |
| PDF-XChange | Proprietary | Yes | PDF Tools allows creation of PDFs from many types of source input (images, scans, etc.). The PDF-XChange print driver allows printing directly to a PDF. A 'lite' version of the print driver is free for non-commercial (home and academic) use. |
| PrimoPDF | Proprietary | Yes | Virtual printer, for Microsoft .NET Framework and uses Ghostscript and RedMon. Connects with www.primopdf.com. Includes Open Candy adware. |
| Solid PDF Creator | Proprietary | No | |
| Universal Document Converter | Proprietary | No | Virtual printer. It doesn't use Ghostscript. |
| Xara Photo & Graphic Designer | Proprietary | No | Graphic design software with PDF creation plus import, viewing and limited editing |
Editors[edit]
| Name | License | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat | Proprietary | Adobe Systems's proprietary desktop PDF authoring suite. |
| Adobe Photoshop | Proprietary | Adobe Systems's Graphic Design software and image editor. |
| Bluebeam Revu | Proprietary | A commercial PDF editor, markup and collaboration product aimed at engineering and architectural markets. |
| Foxit Reader | Freeware | Highlight text, draw lines, measure distances of PDF documents. |
| gDoc Fusion | Proprietary/Shareware | desktop product to create, review, edit, share or archive PDF and XPS documents. After 30 days a watermark is placed on documents in shareware version. |
| LibreOffice | Free (Mozilla Public License) | GUI tools to manipulate, split, merge, encrypt and decrypt PDF files. |
| Microsoft Word 2013 | Proprietary | Desktop software. The 2013 edition of Office allows PDF files to be converted into a format that can be edited. |
| Nitro PDF Reader | Freeware | Text highlighting, draw lines and measure distances in PDF files. |
| Nitro PDF Pro | Proprietary | a proprietary commercial PDF creator/editor with an interface styled after Microsoft Office; replicates most or all features of the Adobe Acrobat full commercial version; offers a separate freeware reader (which also supports PDF creation, annotation, collaboration and signing); Ghostscript not additionally needed. |
| PDF Studio | Proprietary | Proprietary software for viewing and editing PDF documents. |
| pdftk | Free (GPL) | command-line tools to manipulate, edit and convert documents; supports filling of PDF forms with FDF/XFDF data. |
| PDF-XChange Viewer | Freeware | Freeware PDF reader, tagger, editor (simple editions) and converter (free for non commercial uses). Allows edit of text, draw lines, highlighting of Text, measuring distance. |
| Solid PDF Tools | Proprietary | Convert PDFs into editable documents and create PDFs from a variety of file sources. |
Viewers[edit]
- Adobe Reader: Adobe's PDF reader is free for personal use.
- Evince: a free (GPL), open source PDF reader. Part of the GNOME desktop environment. Windows port available since version 2.28.
- Foxit Reader: Proprietary/freeware PDF reader, supports FDF import/export, saving filled forms; other extended functionality available via purchasable plugins.
- gDoc Fusion: Proprietary/shareware to view PDF, XPS, Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, Microsoft PowerPoint presentation or image files, included in the evaluation version of the product. Shareware version places a watermark on documents after 30 day eval.
- Google Chrome: Includes a PDF viewer.
- GSview: Open source software and Ghostscript's viewer for Windows.
- Javelin PDF Reader: A full functionality PDF reader with support for DRM using encoded and encrypted PDF files in Drumlin's DRMX and DRMZ formats.
- Microsoft Edge: Includes a PDF viewer.
- Microsoft Reader: A discontinued PDF viewer in Windows 8.1.
- Mozilla Firefox: Includes a PDF viewer.
- MuPDF: Free lightweight document viewer.
- Nitro PDF Reader: Freeware (though proprietary) PDF reader and creator. Supports three methods (specifying the file within the reader's interface, or dragging-'n-dropping a file onto the reader's Windows desktop icon, or 'printing' to a virtual printer driver) of PDF creation (Ghostscript not additionally needed), saving filled forms (AcroForms), text typewriter, markup/collaboration, and stamp signature (document signing).
- PDF-XChange Viewer: Freeware viewer with free OCR, supports FDF/XFDF import/export, saving filled forms, extended markup and export to image capabilities.
- Qiqqa: Freeware PDF reader, indexer, tagger and annotator. Supports OCR and export of PDF text and images.
- Sumatra PDF: A free (GPL), open source PDF reader based on MuPDF. It also supports DjVu, XPS, CHM, Comic Book (CBR, CBT, CBZ and CB7Z) and eBook (EPUB, FB2, FB2Z, PBD, MOBI, PBR, TCR & ZFB2) , TXT and image file formats (.tga, .gif, .jpg, .j2k, .png, .webp, .tiff). Supports automatic .pdfsync & .synctex reloading of PDF files so is well favoured as a LaTeX / pdfTeX viewer with forward - inverse synchronization. Using Ghost script it supports PostScript (.ps, .eps) files.[1]
- STDU Viewer: A freeware for non-commercial usage PDF reader. It also supports DjVu, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), XPS, TIFF, TXT and image file formats.
Mobile[edit]
| Name | License | Platform | Functions | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android | iOS | Other | View | Annotate | |||
| Amazon Kindle app | Freeware | Yes | Yes | BlackBerry OS webOS Windows Phone | Yes | ? | |
| Evince | GNU GPL | ? | ? | Maemo | Yes | ? | |
| Foxit MobilePDF | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ||
| Google Drive app | Freeware | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
| iBooks | Proprietary | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
| MuPDF | GNU AGPL | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | Lightweight document viewer | |
| Qiqqa | Proprietary | Yes | ? | Yes | Yes | ||
Web-based[edit]
Converters[edit]
- Zamzar: Online file converter
- Smallpdf: Offers free Online PDF conversion (PDF to other formats and vice versa)
Editors[edit]
- PDFescape: an advertising and fee supported web service to view, create forms, fill out forms, and edit PDF documents from a web browser (requires JavaScript to be enabled)
- PDFVue: a free web application that allows the user to view PDF's, comment and fill PDF forms from a web browser. Generates a watermark.
- Smallpdf: Free web-based PDF software for editing, signing, compressing, merging, splitting, rotating, unlocking and protecting PDF files.
Viewers[edit]
- A.nnotate: a web service which views PDF documents as HTML in the browser, with annotation features.
- DigiSigner: free online PDF viewer java applet with additional function to digitally sign PDF documents.
- Docstoc: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online
- Issuu: a web service which allows viewing PDF documents online
- Google Docs: a web service which views PDF documents as PNG images in the browser
- Scribd: a web service which renders PDF documents as HTML5 in the browser
- PDF.js: A Javascript-based library, with viewer, and browser plugin.
- PDFTron Systems: WebViewer. A free JavaScript viewer and annotator for self-hosting of web optimized PDFs.
References[edit]
- ^https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Supported-document-formats.html
External links[edit]
- PDF at Curlie
- PDF software at Curlie
- Windows Tools and Drivers at Curlie
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Mar 05,2019 • Filed to: PDF Reader
Sumatra PDF reader is open source PDF viewing software that offers a very user friendly experience as compared to Adobe Reader which is consistently bloated and full of bugs that slow down a user’s experience in viewing PDF information. In this article we will share tips on using Sumatra PDF reader to view PDF files.
Part 1: The Highly Recommended Alternative Solution to Sumatra PDF Reader
PDFelement Pro - The Best Sumatra PDF Reader Alternative
Sumatra PDF Reader is only available for Windows users. If you are a Mac user, it is frustrated that you can not read PDF with Sumatra PDF Reader. However, there are many Sumatra PDF Reader alternative in the market. And the one stands out is PDFelement Pro. This Sumatra PDF Reader alternative allows you to view PDF easily and comes with many PDF editing tools so you can many any changes on your PDF files.
Why Choose This PDF Editor:
- Easily read PDF with many handy PDF viewing tools.
- Edit PDF texts, images, links, and add watermark with ease.
- Convert PDF to Word keeping the original file layout.
- Fully control PDF, combine and split PDF .
- Mark up or annotate PDF, and fill out PDF forms.
Part 2: Tips on How to Use Sumatra PDF Reader to Read PDF
Sumatra PDF reader is relatively small in that it takes very little ram and does not automatically search for updates. It loads up content very quickly which is a perk for this software. It has a minimalistic user interface and quite useful to users who don’t have the experience on using newer versions of advanced pdf software’s. In this case we can call it the recommended user pdf for those who only need to view content rather than waste time on features of the same.
How to Use Sumatra PDF Reader to Read PDF
Download Sumatra PDF Reader
There are five main sites where you can download Sumatra PDF reader:
• CNET: Download Sumatra PDF Reader
This is a good site to download the software as it is straight forward and does not re direct the user to other sites which are full of advertisements.
• File hippo: Download Sumatra PDF Reader
Another great site to get a this wonderful pdf reader. File hippo is a secondary download site that incorporates audio files , video files , e books and many more files as well as software all under one roof.
Acrobat Reader For Mac
• Softonic: Download Sumatra PDF Reader
A direct competitor to CNET above, it offers the same user experience as CNET only a different user interface and the main difference is the installer that has to be incorporated in your download for future Softonic downloads. Once the installer is on your computer, all downloads from this site will be directly installed.
Sumatra Pdf Reader For Mac
• Softpedia: Download Sumatra PDF Reader
The first major observation from this site is its blue background and prompting of internet download manager for faster downloads. Another difference is that it has mirror sites, i.e. sources where one can retrieve the software and in this case it has mirrors one, two and three all from the US. It’s not as efficient as the above as one is likely to get slower downloads since it is fetching the software from a different location other than its own.
• Code: Download Sumatra PDF Reader
This is a minimalistic site as it takes one directly to the download options available. It does not offer user ratings of the Sumatra reader nor the sites rating. It offers basic user information as who uploaded it, when and number of downloads of the same. Overall not a bad option although one can download viruses and malware, as the downloads are not approved by the site management.
How to Use Sumatra PDF Reader to View PDF
Step 1: After downloading Sumatra , double click on it to launch the program.
Step 2: Once it is open , one can create a new document or view an existing one saved on the computer.
Step 3: Toggling on the view and tools buttons gives you the options of going to the next page, zooming and panning and also adding a pdf file to favorites.
Step 4: Changing the language is easy too as one goes to settings and there it is on an icon where you change to your native speaking language.
Step 5: On options is where one can tick on the check box if you need to get automatic updates and default settings are the programs best suited user settings for correct use of the pdf reader.
Sumatra PDF Reader Pros:
- It is not bloated and uses minimal ram and system requirements to run on there by making it faster and more convenient to use.
- Does not have irrelevant features that may confuse the user. This is more important for users who don’t have basic skills on word editing software.
- It is relatively small and can fit in a usb device.
Sumatra PDF Reader Cons:
- It has no tabs on its user interface for the advanced users.
- Auto update feature is not present thereby making it lag back in editing features and missing out on newer recommended features.
- It cannot uninstall once installed.
- It takes a lot of time to render big files as it has minimal abilities as compared to other advanced document editing program.
- It is only available for windows operating software.