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 |
| <Ctrl> + G, g: |
go to page |
| Home: |
go to first page |
| End: |
go to last page |
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| Viewing state
| +: |
zoom in |
| -: |
zoom out |
| <Shift> <Ctrl> +: |
rotate clockwise |
| <Shift> <Ctrl> -: |
rotate counter-clockwise |
| <Ctrl> + L, F11: |
full screen |
| F12: |
show/hide PDF bookmarks (table of contents) |
| F5:
| switch focus between bookmarks window and main window |
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| 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
| 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 |
| -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) |
| -register-for-pdf |
forces registering Sumatra as a default reader for PDF files and exits |
| -no-register-ext |
don't register Sumatra as a default PDF reader |
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.