Version history

1.1 (2010-05-20):

Contributors to this release:

  • Simon Bünzli (zeniko)
  • William Blum
  • myself

Changes in this relase:
  • added book view (“View/Book View” menu item) option. It’s known as “Show Cover Page During Two-Up” in Adobe Reader
  • added “File/Properties” menu item, showing basic information about PDF file
  • added “File/Send by email” menu
  • added export as text. When doing “File/Save As”, change “Save As types” from “PDF documents” to “Text documents”. Don’t expect miracles, though. Conversion to text is not very good in most cases.
  • auto-detect commonly used TeX editors for inverse-search command
  • bug fixes to PDF handling (more PDFs are shown correctly)
  • misc bug fixes and small improvements in UI
  • add Ctrl + and Ctrl – as shortcuts for zooming (matches Adobe Reader)
1.0.1 (2009-11-27):
  • many memory leaks fixed (Simon Bünzli)
  • potential crash due to stack corruption (pointed out by Christophe Devine)
  • making Sumatra default PDF reader no longer asks for admin priviledges on Vista/Windows 7
  • translation updates
1.0 (2009-11-17):
  • lots of small bug fixes and improvements
0.9.4 (2009-07-19):
  • improved PDF compatibility (more types of documents can be rendered)
  • added settings dialog (contributed by Simon Bünzli)
  • improvements in handling unicode
  • changed default view from single page to continuous
  • SyncTex improvements (contributed by William Blum)
  • add option to not remember opened files
  • a new icon for documents association (contributed by George Georgiou)
  • lots of bugfixes and UI polish
0.9.3 (2008-10-07):
  • fix an issue with opening non-ascii files
  • updated Japanese and Brazillian translation
0.9.2 (2008-10-06):
  • ability to disable auto-update check
  • improved text rendering - should fix problems with overlapping text
  • improved font substition for fonts not present in PDF file
  • can now open PDF files with non-ascii names
  • improvements to DDE (contributed by Danilo Roascio)
  • SyncTex improvements
  • improve persistance of state (contributed by Robert Liu)
  • fix crash when pressing 'Cancel' when entering a password
  • updated translations
0.9.1 (2008-08-22):
  • improved rendering of some PDFs
  • support for links inside PDF file
  • added -restrict and -title cmd-line options (contributed by Matthew Wilcoxson)
  • enabled SyncTex support which mistakenly disabled in 0.9
  • misc fixes and translation updates
0.9 (2008-08-10):
  • add Ctrl-P as print shortcut
  • add F11 as full-screen shortcut
  • password dialog no longer shows the password
  • support for AES-encrypted PDF files
  • updates to SyncTeX/PdfSync integration (contributed by William Blum)
  • add -nameddest command-line option and DDE commands for jumping to named destination(contributed by Alexander Klenin)
  • add -reuse-instance command-line option (contributed by William Blum)
  • add DDE command to open PDF file (contributed by William Blum)
  • removed poppler rendering engine resulting in smaller program and updated to latest mupdf sources
  • misc bugfixes and translation updates
0.8.1 (2008-05-27):
  • automatic reloading of changed PDFs (contributed by William Blum)
  • tex integration (contributed by William Blum)
  • updated icon for case-sensitivity selection in find (contributed by Sonke Tesch)
  • language change is now a separate dialog instead of a menu
  • remember more settings (like default view)
  • automatic checks for new versions
  • add command-line option -lang $lang
  • add command-line option -print-dialog (contributed by Peter Astrand)
  • ESC or single mouse click hides selection
  • fix showing boxes in table of contents tree
  • translation updates (contributed by many people)
0.8 (2008-01-01):
  • added search (contributed by MrChuoi)
  • added table of contents (contributed by MrChuoi)
  • added many translation (contributed by many people)
  • new program icon
  • fixed printing
  • fixed some crashes
  • rendering speedups
  • fixed loading of some PDFs
  • add command-line option -esc-to-exit
  • add command-line option -bgcolor $color
0.7 (2007-07-28):
  • added ability to select the text and copy to clipboard - contributed by Tomek Weksej
  • made it multi-lingual (13 translations contributed by many people)
  • added Save As option
  • list of recently opened files is updated immediately
  • fixed .pdf extension registration on Vista
  • added ability to compile as DLL and C# sample application - contributed by Valery Possoz
  • mingw compilation fixes and project files for CodeBlocks - contributed by MrChuoi
  • fixed a few crashes
  • moved the sources to Google Code project hosting
0.6 (2007-04-29):
  • enable opening password-protected PDFs
  • don't allow printing in PDFs that have printing forbidden
  • don't automatically reopen files at startup
  • fix opening PDFs from network shares
  • new, better icon
  • reload the document when changing rendering engine
  • improve cursor shown when dragging
  • fix toolbar appearance on XP and Vista with classic theme
  • when MuPDF engine cannot load a file or render a page, we fallback to poppler engine to make rendering more robust
  • fixed a few crashes
0.5 (2007-03-04):
  • fixed rendering problems with some PDF files
  • speedups - the application should feel be snappy and there should be less waiting for rendering
  • added 'r' keybinding for reloading currently open PDF file
  • added <Ctrl>-<Shift>-+ and <Ctrl>-<Shift>-- keybindings to rotate clockwise and counter-clockwise (just like Acrobat Reader)
  • fixed a crash or two
0.4 (2007-02-18):
  • printing
  • ask before registering as a default handler for PDF files
  • faster rendering thanks to alternative PDF rendering engine. Previous engine is available as well.
  • scrolling with mouse wheel
  • fix toolbar issues on win2k
  • improve the way fonts directory is found
  • improvements to portable mode
  • uninstaller completely removes the program
  • changed name of preferences files from prefs.txt to sumatrapdfprefs.txt
0.3 (2006-11-25):
  • added toolbar for most frequently used operations
  • should be more snappy because rendering is done in background and it caches one page ahead
  • some things are faster
0.2 (2006-08-06):
  • added facing, continuous and continuous facing viewing modes
  • remember history of opened files
  • session saving i.e. on exit remember which files are opened and restore the session when the program is started without any command-line parameters
  • ability to open encrypted files
  • "Go to page dialog"
  • less invasive (less yellow) icon that doesn't jump at you on desktop
  • fixed problem where sometimes text wouldn't show (better mapping for fonts; use a default font if can't find the font specified in PDF file)
  • handle URI links inside PDF documents
  • show "About" screen
  • provide a download in a .zip file for those who can't run installation program
  • switched to poppler code instead of xpdf
0.1 (2006-06-01):
  • first version released
Sumatra is written by Krzysztof Kowalczyk