Keyboard shortcuts
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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: | |
| 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 |
| -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) |
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.