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Are you serious about the PDF viewers? Windows has Sumatra, Xodo, Drawboard all of which are fine and the first two are free. Mac OS on the other hand, has had
by Alas1 7y ago
Are you serious about the PDF viewers? Windows has Sumatra, Xodo, Drawboard all of which are fine and the first two are free.
Mac OS on the other hand, has had a broken pdfkit implementation since around Sierra, and any PDF viewer that relies on it (Preview, Skim) has broken and blurry rendering of which there are several reports online. This makes any PDF reader other than Adobe's (which is an abomination) unusable. This has gone mostly unnoticed or ignored as the blur is reduced by the high PPI screens, although it is there and becomes much more apparent on a lower PPI external screen.
This single fact makes Mac OS unusable for me. Windows has its own faults, but at least I can read crisp PDFs on it.
- dublin 7y agoAlthough it's a bit of a pig, Acrobat Reader DC is still the best thing out there. I bought and really love Drawboard, but since there's no reliable way to gracefully make it persist as the default PDF app for the OS (and consequently, the browsers), I just went back to DC. (This is a general problem with "modern" apps - they can't really be made to act as reasonable default apps for Win32 apps, AFAIK.) That said, for all its warts, the Win10/WSL combo is light-years ahead of MacOS. (I had to use a Mac for a recent client engagement, and truly felt like I'd been cast back to the turn of the century. Seriously, MacOS is really primitive, especially for dev, compared to Win10/WSL.) But more than that, I'll just never go back to a computer without really awesome pen and touch support. The only problem I've had with several versions of Surface Pro hardware is Intel's execrable Skylake power management cluster-foxtrot.