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Yesterday Version 1.0 of this open source PDF viewer has been released [1]. According to the version history it contains lots of small bug fixes and improvements.

Sumatra PDF works well in conjunction with TeXnicCenter (TXC) and supports SyncTeX to switch between source and output. Current alpha builds of TXC 2.0 make Sumatra PDF their default PDF viewer, thus generate appropriate build profiles in case Sumatra PDF is installed. Even if the Ad0be Reader (AR) is installed, Sumatra PDF will be preferred.

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Three days ago version 1.0.1 has been released. Among bug fixes it contains translation updates and some accommodations to Windows 7 and Vista.
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Today Sumatra PDF Version 1.1 has been released. Among several bug fixes and new features the display of PDF files has been improved. An outstanding feature is the auto-detection of commonly used editors in order to enable inverse search.
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One week ago, on 4 February, and almost unnoticed, version 1.3 of Sumatra PDF has been released. Beside important bug fixes some highlights are
  • improved text selection and copying.
  • updates for the toolbar.
  • new, improved installer.
  • improved zoom options.
  • text search consumes less memory.
  • translation updates.
The full change log can be found on the project page. Issues are discussed in the Sumatra PDF Viewer Forum.
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On 12 March the new version 1.4 of Sumatra PDF has been released. Beside fixed bugs some highlights are:
  • Browser plug-in for Firefox/Chrome/Opera (no support for Internet Explorer). Installation is not activated by default and has to be chosen explicitly.
  • menu items for re-opening current document in Foxit and PDF-XChange (if they're installed).
  • support for AES-256 encrypted PDF documents.
The full list can be found on the project page.
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With the release of Version 1.5 on 23 April this year has seen already the third update for the Sumatra PDF Viewer. A bug fix release to Version 1.5.1 followed three days later on 26 April. Some of the new features are:
  • File/Save Shortcut menu item to create shortcuts to a specific place in a document
  • context menu for copying text, link addresses and comments. In browser plug-in it also adds saving and printing commands
  • folder browsing
As always, the full change log can be found on the project page.
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30 May was the official release date for version 1.6, thus the fourth update for this year. The new version has got some interesting features. Some highlights are:
  • display Frequently Read list when no document is open
  • add support for displaying Postscript documents (requires recent Ghostscript version to be already installed)
  • display printing progress and allow to cancel it
  • add Print toolbar button
As always, the full changelog can be found on the project page.
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About one week ago, on 18 Juli, the Sumatra PDF Viewer has reached Version 1.7, thus got the fifth update this year. The changelog lists some interesting points.
  • Favorites
  • Improved support for right-to-left languages e.g. Arabic
  • Logical page numbers are displayed and used, if a document provides them (such as i, ii, iii, etc.)
  • Improved support for EPS files (requires Ghostscript)
  • More robust installer
As always, the full changelog is available on the project page.
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After version 1.9 had been released as the last update in 2011 on 23 November, this year sees with Version 2.0 from 2 April 2012 a major release. The change log is quite short.
  • support for MOBI eBook format
  • support opening CHM documents from network drives
  • a selection can be copied to a clipboard as an image by using right-click context menu
  • using ucrt to reduce program size
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Just a few days after version 2.0 the development team of Sumatra PDF has rolled out the bug fix release 2.0.1 on 8 April. It fixes some critical bugs.
  • fix loading .mobi files from command line
  • fix a crash loading multiple .mobi files at once
  • fix a crash showing tooltips for table of contents tree entries
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