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== Sumatra PDF ===== [[Evince PDF]] ===[[Image:25star.png]] [[Image:35star.png]] A minimalistic PDF reader. Sumatra PDF has a minimalistic design, and its simplicity is attained at the expense of many other features. As is characteristic of many portable applications, Sumatra takes up little disk space - it has a 1mb setup file (compared to Adobe Reader's 27.5mb setup file), and it starts up rapidly. It was designed for portable use in the sense that it's just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive[1]. This would classify it as a portable application.Windows, FreeBSD, LinuxOne interesting feature of Sumatra PDF is that it remembers exactly the last opened page for each pdf file. This helps it be a very useful pdf e-book reader.Evince is a document viewer for multiple document formats. The goal of evince is to replace the multiple document viewers that exist on the GNOME Desktop with a single simple application.Review: Sumatra PDF contains anti-features. It enforces [[DRM]] restrictions. As stated on a Sourceforge review, "''it supports DRM of "protected" PDF files, and the author stubbornly refuses to make it optional. So you can't print PDFs for offline reading, and you can't copy text to the clipboard for pasting into Google translate, saving to your notes, quoting in a paper, etc.''"Evince currently supports PDF, Postscript, djvu, tiff, dvi, XPS, SyncTex with gedit, comics books (cbr,cbz,cb7 and cbt), and many more.Shortcut keys: '''Review:''' {{:Evince PDF- review}}:* space - scroll by screen=== [[PDFlite]] ===:* backspace - scroll back by screen[[Image:05star.png]] :* k - scroll by one line:* j - scroll back by one line:* Down - scroll by one line:* Up - scroll back by one line:* n - goto next page:* p - goto previous page:* Page Down - go to next page:* Page Up - go to previous page:* g - goto page:* q - quit:* + - zoom in:* - - zoom out:* r - reload PDF document:* <Shift> <Ctrl> + - rotate clockwise:* <Shift> <Ctrl> - - rotate counter-clockwise:* Home - go to first page:* End - go to last pageSumatra PDF Official Web Site: PDFlite can be used to read any PDF file. Simple design. View PDF documents with all common features such as search, print, zoom. Use the PDFlite printer so you can convert any document to PDF file.* http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/Sumatra PDF Viewer was developed by Krzysztof Kowalczyk.PUP alert: Malware in installer. Even if you uncheck the toolbar and other software it still installs PUP in the background! Avoid unless you want to take the time to install it yourself from the sourcecode they provide. === [[Sumatra PDF]] ===[[Image:20star.png]] Microsoft Windows Only {{:Sumatra PDF- Description Text}} '''Review:''' Sumatra PDF contains anti-features. It enforces [[DRM]] restrictions. As stated on a Sourceforge review, "''it supports DRM of "protected" PDF files, and the author stubbornly refuses to make it optional. So you can't print PDFs for offline reading, and you can't copy text to the clipboard for pasting into Google translate, saving to your notes, quoting in a paper, etc.''" The Sumatra PDF software developers are crybabies. Read their little rant about [http://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/ripoffs/pdflite.html PDFLite is a SumatraPDF ripoff]. The title should be Sumatra PDF developers do not understand Open Source. === GhostScript === [[Image:40star.png]] Windows, FreeBSD, Linux Command Line. Ghostscript is a suite of software. You can view, convert, and manipulate PDF files. Ghostscript is an interpreter for PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Postscript can be picky and inconsistent about the PDF files it will open. Example: view a PDF on Windows XP gswin32c.exe -dSAFER -dBATCH "C:\Program Files\GPLGS\test3.pdf" The example will open the pdf document in a GUI window for viewing.