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> PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install. The built-in viewer that shipped with 8 is no-frill

by Encosia 11y ago

> PDF viewer. Chrome is the only non-awful PDF viewer I've found for Windows. Requires third-party install. The built-in viewer that shipped with 8 is no-frills (like Chrome's), but works well enough. If you have touch/pointer input, you can annotate and sign PDFs in that viewer too, which is great on a Surface. > It'd be useful to be able to mute an application from the OS interface, and to see an indicator for audio activity ion something like the task manager. This has been possible since 7, I think? Maybe 8. > Would be good if you could choose a filesystem that had strong performance with git. Either make git+NTFS fast, or else offer a well-support FS that git does want to work on. Not sure I understand this one. I've been using git on both OS X and Windows for years and haven't noticed any perf issue on my Windows machines (coming from SVN, granted). Is there something I'm missing, maybe with particular git features I don't use?

mattkevan 11y ago
Argh, the Win8 PDF viewer is so infuriating. It seems to only have two zoom levels: 100%, and grid of thumbnails. Great if I want to only see a bit of a page or all of then very small, but not so much when I just want to view a whole page on the screen. Which I would have thought would be a fairly basic task. For a document viewer. Happy to hear if I'm wrong though.
- Encosia 11y ago
  I only have Win10 handy right now, but the built-in "Reader" app there has an option for fitting a single page, two pages side-by-side, and continuous vertical pages. It's missing an automatic option to fit the page width-wise, which is what I'd prefer, but zooming in to that level is easy enough with the "+" zoom button overlaid in the bottom right corner. Not sure if that's a lot different than the Win8 version. It's been a while since I've used 8 now.
  - cturner 11y ago
    Thanks for your note. I should have mentioned in my original comment, I'm behind with my knowledge of Windows. The fact there's a competent PDF reader in Windows 8 highlights this. Thanks.

by Encosia 11y ago

mattkevan 11y ago

Argh, the Win8 PDF viewer is so infuriating. It seems to only have two zoom levels: 100%, and grid of thumbnails. Great if I want to only see a bit of a page or all of then very small, but not so much when I just want to view a whole page on the screen. Which I would have thought would be a fairly basic task. For a document viewer. Happy to hear if I'm wrong though.

Encosia 11y ago
I only have Win10 handy right now, but the built-in "Reader" app there has an option for fitting a single page, two pages side-by-side, and continuous vertical pages. It's missing an automatic option to fit the page width-wise, which is what I'd prefer, but zooming in to that level is easy enough with the "+" zoom button overlaid in the bottom right corner. Not sure if that's a lot different than the Win8 version. It's been a while since I've used 8 now.
- cturner 11y ago
  Thanks for your note. I should have mentioned in my original comment, I'm behind with my knowledge of Windows. The fact there's a competent PDF reader in Windows 8 highlights this. Thanks.