Download Sumatra PDF 1.3

Sumatra PDF is a lightweight open source program for opening PDF documents. Installed, the program takes up 1.2MB, making it smaller than Foxit Reader. When a PDF document is printed, it is first converted internally to a bitmap image. This usually results in a large spooled file, which can cause quite a bit of delay on printers with low memory. Version 1.3 of Sumatra PDF was released on Friday and the changelog of this release looks like this:

Changes in this relay:

• Improved text selection and copying. We now mimic the way a browser or Adobe Reader works: just select text with mouse and use Ctrl-C to copy it to a clipboard
• Shift+Left Mouse now scrolls the document, Ctrl+Left mouse still creates a rectangular selection (for copying images)
• ‘c’ shortcut toggles continuous mode
• ‘+’ / ‘*’ on the numeric keyboard now do zoom and rotation
• Added toolbar icons for Fit Page and Fit Width and updated the look of toolbar icons
• Add support for back/forward mouse buttons for back/forward navigation
• 1.2 introduces a new full screen mode and made it the default full screen mode. Old mode was still available but not easily discoverable. We’ve added View/Presentation menu item for new full screen mode and View/Fullscreen menu item for the old full screen mode, to make it more discoverable
• New improved installer
• Improved zoom performance (zooming to 6400% no longer crashes)
• Text find uses less memory
• Further printing improvements
• Translation updates
• Updated to latest mupdf for misc bugfixes and improvements
• Use libjpeg-turbo library instead of libjpeg, for faster decoding of some PDFs
• Updated openjpeg library to version 1.4 and freetype to version 2.4.4
• Fixed 2 integer overflows reported by Stefan Cornelius from Secunia Research

Sumatra PDF screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.