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They even discontinued their own PDF reader (completely disabling it if you already had it installed) in an attempt to make people use Edge to read PDFs. Openi
by opencl 9y ago
They even discontinued their own PDF reader (completely disabling it if you already had it installed) in an attempt to make people use Edge to read PDFs.
Opening it now just says "Microsoft Edge is the new home for PDFs!"
Edge is unsurprisingly not a very good PDF reader.
- fhood 9y agoI want preview (the app) on all my devices. Not just my laptop. Is there something out there for Windows that fill that niche? Edit: The thing that has impressed me about preview is that I can use it for very basic image editing, filling out forms (with signatures), and reading books. And it is very good at all of those. So that is what I would want in a replacement.
- krylon 9y agoI am not sure how close it comes, but for PDFs I use SumatraPDF: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html It is relatively lightweight, can be used without a formal installation (i.e. no admin privileges required), and I like very much that it stores its state between sessions, so when I open it after a reboot, it has all the files open I had open before, and it also saves the position within the files. Searching within files is not as good as with Apple's Preview.app, but most of the lengthy files I view have decent TOCs, so it is not a big problem for me.
- mrec 9y agoSeconded. Despite the name it also handles things like EPUB and CBZ competently.
- krylon 9y agoI just found out it handles djvu nicely, too.
- fhood 9y agoThanks, I'll take a look.
- Markoff 9y agocan't markup documents, which is why i moved from Sumatra to Foxit reader. bloated? sure. but I need markup
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoChrome works well for PDFs.
- TremendousJudge 9y agoso does Sumatra, and it uses a couple orders of magnitude less ram
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoI love Sumatra when I’m writing papers since it auto reloads PDFs without losing page context. However, I usually have chrome open anyways.
- petecox 9y agoOn low end hardware though? My experience is that any browser based renderer (Chrome/Edge/Firefox) will choke in comparison to a native desktop program, e.g. SumatraPDF or Atril. It's the first thing I disable.
- simooooo 9y agoMy windows machine suggests using TWINUI for pdfs.. whatever the hell that is