Sumatra PDF viewer

Keyboard shortcuts

Navigation


j/k, Up/Down:	scroll up/down by line
space:	scroll by screen
backspace:	scroll back by screen
n/p:	next/previous page
Page Down/Page Up:	next/previous page
<Alt> + Left:	go back
<Alt> + Right:	go forward
<Ctrl> + G, g:	go to page
Home:	go to first page
End:	go to last page

Viewing state


+:	zoom in
-:	zoom out
<Ctrl> + scroll wheel	zoom in/out
<Shift> <Ctrl> +:	rotate clockwise
<Shift> <Ctrl> -:	rotate counter-clockwise
<Ctrl> + L, F11:	full screen
F12:	show/hide PDF bookmarks (table of contents)
F6:	switch focus between bookmarks window and main window

Actions


<Ctrl> + Left Mouse:	select text and copy to clipboard
<Ctrl> + O:	open PDF file
<Ctrl> + W:	close PDF file
<Ctrl> + S:	save as
<Ctrl> + P:	print
r:	reload
<Ctrl> + F:	find text
F3/<Shift> + F3:	find next/previous
<Ctrl> + Q, q:	quit program

Command-line arguments


-page $pageno	open PDF at a given page
-nameddest $dest	open PDF at a specified named destination
-lang $language	set user interface language. $language is a two-letter language code e.g. "en", "de"
-title $title	set the window title
-restrict	run in restricted mode. In restricted mode some options are disabled
-reuse-instance	use existing Sumatra process instead of starting a new process
-register-for-pdf	forces registering Sumatra as a default reader for PDF files and exits
-esc-to-exit	if given, ESC key will exit the program. It's persisted in settings file, so only needs to be provided once
-bgcolor $color	change the yellow background color to a provided color in hex format (e.g. 0xffff00)

Note: -esc-to-exit and -bgcolor options change the defaults and persist them in sumatrapdfprefs.dat file (in %appdata%\SumatraPDF directory if installed, in the same directory as executable in portable mode). To revert back to defaults, you can delete sumatrapdfprefs.dat file.

LaTeX preview support

Sumatra has built-in support for easy previewing of LaTeX documents. Read this page for more information and detailed instructions on how to configure various text editors to integrate with Sumatra's preview functionality.

Notes

If "Remember settings for each document" is turned on and a PDF is later opened again, Sumatra PDF will return to the page shown when it was closed. Settings are not only stored for those 10 files shown in the "File" menu - but resuming will not work if the file has been moved in the meantime

Some settings (e.g. fullscreen) are saved as defaults without a GUI option, when SumatraPDF is closed without any document open.

Known limitations

Printing in Sumatra is slow. It's unlikely to be fixed.

Filling forms and adding comments is not implemented. Also unlikely to be fixed.

Disable viewing PDF files directly in web browser (IE and Firefox)

Adobe Acrobat also comes with Internet Explorer and Firefox plugin which makes it take over PDF files downloaded via browser and display them directly in the browser.

This is not always a desired behaviour and you can use Sumatra as the default PDF viewer in both IE and Firefox, without completely uninstalling Adobe Acrobat.

Here are the steps (based on this blog post):

Launch Adobe Acrobat
Select Edit/Preferences
Select Internet
Uncheck Display PDF in browser
Click OK
Launch Sumatra PDF viewer
Select menu Setting/Options... and click "Make SumatraPDF my main PDF reader" button

Clicking on links to PDF documents should no longer open the embedded viewer but pop up a dialog box. Select "Always perform this action..." checkbox if you want Sumatra to automatically open those PDF files.