Download Sumatra PDF 1.4

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 1.4 of Sumatra PDF has been released and the changelog of this release looks like this:

Changes in this release:

• Browser plugin for Firefox/Chrome/Opera (Internet Explorer is not supported). It’s not installed by default so you have to check the apropriate checkbox in the installer
• IFilter that enables full-text search of PDF files in Windows Desktop Search (ie search from Windows Vista/7’s Start Menu). Also not installed by default
• Scrolling with right mouse button
• You can choose a custom installation directory in the installer
• Menu items for re-opening current document in Foxit and PDF-XChange (if they’re installed)
• We no longer compress the installer executable with mpress. It caused some anti-virus programs to falsely report Sumatra as a virus. The downside is that the binaries on disk are now bigger. Note: we still compress the portable .zip version
• -title cmd-line option was removed
• Support for AES-256 encrypted PDF documents
• Fixed an integer overflow reported by Jeroen van der Gun and and other small fixes and improvements to PDF handling

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