Vote for features! #2562
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Just a note, that Gitlab have all github's features, including sorting by upvotes. Maybe it would be useful to migrate into gitlab? This is a response to starting using Canny (why use two platforms when single can be used). This is just a hint, I am not expecting the answer, thank you for a great software, it would be harder to live without sumatra 👍🙂 |
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Migrating to GitLab would be too much work and too big of a disruption for the benefit. |
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I’ve come to much prefer GitHub over GitLab. I would definitely prefer not seeing a move away from GitHub. (You don’t really provide arguments for it either? Feature parity does not provide an upside.) |
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Just a small request. I know that we already have some of the annotating features in SumatraPDF, but the extensive feature (highlight, underline, commenting) is in the beta version. If it is possible to put it into the stable release, it would be great. Beta versions do not integrate well with Texmaker, that's one of the downsides. I don't want to update often but the beta version requires me to update frequently. Thanks. Keep up the good work 👍 |
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@SuM-erb |
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If pre-release version doesn't integrate with Texmaker then that's a bug and you should file an issue with details. The issue will not go away in released version because released version is the exact same thing as pre-release. At some point I'll just decide that this pre-release is good enough to be released. |
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I wrote that a long time ago when using portable LaTeX with many editors but still cant remember why I singled that line out for %% as I did not for others :puzzled: I am! sometime I should re-edit. |
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Thanks so much! For solving my issue. Sorry for the deleted comment. |
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Now, if I close Texmaker, it closes SumatraPDF as well. After I have reopened everything, it shows me "no synchronization info at this point". After I have freshly compiled it, it shows me that "synchronization info cannot be opened". :( |
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The compiled file must have succeed without any synctex error and the new synctex file match the new PDF e.g. the sample files are the same time and date. Thus check the times of new.tex new.pdf and new.synctex(.gz) are not out of sync in time and look in the new.log if they do not match. A common problem is users do not heed the expert advice to only have all project files in one folder (no output / auxiliary sub chapter folders) the inter-relationships of dozens of modules in LaTeX depend on one common working directory whilst compiling (or else an exceedingly good understanding of how environmental variables can point to common related resources like images and fonts). At this stage we are off topic as SumatraPDF itself is not apparently the issue. But it seems to be the synctex file it is being asked to use. There is a slight possibility the file is not suited to SumatraPDF legacy reading but I suspect it is more likely not being written as a valid synctex file |
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I don't understand much about what you said, but I truly appreciate your effort. Please note that the stable release has no such issue. As I said, I wanted those nice annotation features, which is why I am using the beta version of SumatraPDF. Thanks anyway. |
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@kjk TexMaker (written by Kile author) and other IDEs like TexWorks should have their own PdfLaTeX previewer but many Windows users prefer SumatraPDF rather than native viewer or Okular for Windows. The problem can be the need to reconfigure if the locations change, but that is easily addressed by good IDE configuration the tex support in SumatraPDF e.g. synctex -inverse calling and -reuseinstance should not have changed (AFAIK) |
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TexMaker has its own reader, but I don't use it simply for convenience. :D |
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@SuM-erb |
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Hi community 🙂. Is there any chance to add a in-build dictionary to the reader?. Similarly to the kindle one |
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@devpcastello There is the use external or custom online dictionary methods of selection and many windows executable dictionary plug-ins work well with SumatraPDF |
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Hello, |
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SumatraPDF needs to be run slowly in any emulator |
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I wouldn't know how to add Sumatra to flatpak. I assume someone is in charge of deciding what is available in flatpak on fedora - you would have to convince them. |
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I wonder if it is emulated or made to run locally on snaps? It runs quite well with Wine or Bottles (actually quite slow with bottles (sandboxed) and Linux community is saying that Wine decreasing security of a system and it is better not to have wine installed directly). Also I noticed that program is not pulling settings from file next to program, but from file located in AppData/Local/ Sumatra... and it modifies it each time program is launched. If I disable write function then it can not remember files opened. Would it not be better if file located in ..AppData just served as a "memory file" and a "settings file" separated in folder where program resides? |
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@NameUserIII In any case if its official build using -appdata (portable or installed) can be used to set settings folder. |
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1 request: Allow create & edit bookmarks. I'm software developer too, so maybe i can help you with this. |
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@Hugoalv79 and we can start off with the first last entry Now SumatraPDF can only append those bookmarks by altering the trailer of the file but a full editor would inject bookmarks wherever it wishes. so the simplest way to add bookmarks to an existing PDF is use a full editor to export and import those bookmarks and thats usually done with a CLI like PDFTK |
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Is it possible to set the default paper size in the settings? My understanding is that A4 paper is more common outside of USA which uses Letter, and having to change the size every time I print is a (somewhat) minor hassle, but still annoying. Maybe in the settings text file (SumatraPDF-settings.txt) have something to set the default paper size so that "PaperSize = Letter", or whatever, can be changed to "PaperSize = A4" and allow the print sizes already allowed by the drop menu inside the printer advanced settings. |
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@Haplo-dBiggs The default for current page in a document is fixed and cannot be changed by SumatraPDF |
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I can't create a canny.io account just now.... I have several PDFs that I have to open in Firefox because it will show me the layers. I'd prefer to not have to remember which document has to open in what reader. Here is an online example of a document with layers. sorry, it's the only reference I could find in a hurry. |
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Hmm in my "Powered by Acrobat " Edge Viewer I cant see any Layers just a Map I would need to export to an editor to change appearance or use an Adobe product, like heavyweight DC Reader Editor. |
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Yeah, I only have a few PDFs that need to be opened in Firefox. I guess layers are not a popular feature. But it sure would be handy. My present work around it to rename the file to "ORIGINAL NAME (open in Firefox).PDF" |
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Well you could call Firefox as an externalviewer same as Edge Foxit PDFXedit (my preference) with the current filename however you would need to know or suspect there were layers in the first place |
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I can try it. It at least solves the "use Sumatra" and is an easier work around than my present method. But the caveat that you pointed out (of having to suspect there is more to a file than first meets the eye) is why I put in the feature request. If Sumatra just shows me the layers that would be the ideal solution. :D I'll follow the example in the docs for now. |
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Thanks for the tip by the way, that was painless to set up. |
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@neail001
The toggle is between |
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Hi, just found out the text document under advance settings allows for Inversion and Background colour (it's the document background, not UI). It's great, but a toggle could bring a little more accessible solution. |
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I am removing the feature request as it works for now. Not the fancy but works. |
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Modern UI FTW. |
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My vote: I wish the PDF preview from the print screen worked |
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I'm a heavy user of text selection, in particular double-click-drag. I also often like to use shift-arrow keys or ctrl-shift-arrow to expand the selection. I find the above are not implemented in SumatraPDF, and I would love them! |
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double click drag etc. has clearly bee mentioned many times by others and double click is heavily assigned to so many functions it is a selection problem as to what action will be following. So was recently changed in a fullscreen where I feel was counter productive to the historic word selection for opening position in synchronised editor (even though that was not perfectly carried out per character in synctex!). As for line feeds there are none however the lines returned in a clipboard will have added them, this is the same for the majority of PDF textractors. Each letter in a PDF has a position so if the positions are character 1 in a line it is presumed there must be a carriage return AND new line needed before that letter, or else it would overlay the letter on the line before. |
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Annotations are additive (incremental writing) so each delete adds more to a file, by duplicating previous object with a negated one, Nothing to do with SumatraPDF but the way PDF was designed as an extensible editing format. It can thus be a problem defining the point in the stack of edits that starts a new chain of overlays. If you used a true delete all the extras would be removed thus even undo the last few needs all that session be removed to rollback to last save (so only save as infrequent as practical) . Editing a PDF is a fragile task at the best of times. Applications like Adobe Reader and MS Edge are under the surface a full PDF editor and totally re-write of the PDF so there is no simple way to adjust the annotations as usually "flattened" into the file. |
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The current smooth scrolling feature is not working well. Improving the scrolling behavior would be a great feature. |
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@yshplsngh |
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I've started https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests so that people can vote on features.
Knowing which features people want the most will help me prioritize development work.
I've populated it with a couple of features. So please go and vote for existing features and create new feature requests for others to vote on.
This is slightly overlapping with both this forum and issues. The big thing is that it allows to sort by vote so I can see which features are most requested.
I'll interlink issues / discussions posts with those feature requests.
A guideline when creating new feature requests: don't put multiple requests (even if somewhat related) into a single requests. The smaller the scope of the request, the more likely that it'll be implemented.
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