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SumatraPDF reader

21 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 1 story, 20 comments · first 2016-03-10 · latest 2026-04-14

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  1. …that accepts dropped images from file system but it doesn't work for that Here's the result: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/58d9a4... It took me less than 15 mins, with testing. Now you tell me: 1. Can a farm worker…
    comment by kjksf · 2026-04-14 · in Write less code, be more responsible
  2. …fix it. Logs help. Let me give you specific example. Here's a fix made by claude to my SumatraPDF: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/a571c0... I have a crash reporting system that sends me crash information in text…
    comment by kjksf · 2026-03-27 · in We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year
  3. …are 3 refactorings from SumatraPDF where I asked claude code to simplify code written by a human: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/a472d3... https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/5624aa...…
    comment by kjksf · 2026-02-10 · in Eight more months of agents
  4. I’m curious, have you tried SumatraPDF (uses muPDF under the hood)? https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
    comment by Modified3019 · 2024-04-20 · in MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo
  5. …to the following issue list from SumatraPDF repo [1] [2]. Epub rendering issue like [3] [4]. [1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues?q=is%3... [2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues?q=is%3... [3]…
    comment by quyleanh · 2023-10-25 · in SumatraPDF Reader
  6. Do you mind reporting those issues either to SumatraPDF at https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues or directly to MuPDF at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ if it also has the same issue? Thank you! There are many wonderfully…
    comment by sebras · 2023-10-24 · in SumatraPDF Reader
  7. None, AFAIK. Canonical: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/191
    comment by isatty · 2023-10-24 · in SumatraPDF Reader
  8. …"ability to drag out a tab to open it in new window"? If so, you can do in latest update [1] [1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/...
    comment by quyleanh · 2023-10-24 · in SumatraPDF Reader
  9. …was out yesterday [1]. There are a lot of bugs fix and improvement in the backlog [2]. [1] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/releases/tag/... [2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/3672
    comment by quyleanh · 2023-10-24 · in SumatraPDF Reader
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    story by quyleanh · 2023-10-24 · 272 comments
  11. I make do with SumatraPDF. https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
    comment by gary_0 · 2023-05-31 · in EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C recommendation
  12. FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040. I have just learned the…
    comment by eesmith · 2023-04-17 · in FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
  13. For PDFs you should try this bad boy https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
    comment by russnes · 2022-09-24 · in Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers
  14. …manually rendered text). [1] https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Accessibility-and-Text... [2] https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/321
    comment by ghusbands · 2022-05-31 · in SumatraPDF 3.4 Released
  15. …in fact before I started developing sioyek, I tried to add some of the features to sumatra here: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/pull/869 . Anyway, I don't think sumatra has these features: * Marks * Preview links * Jump to…
    comment by hexomancer · 2022-02-19 · in Show HN: Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and textbooks
  16. …but your comment led me to look at this GitHub issue discussing this feature in SumatraPDF: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/246#is... Someone there mentioned that Firefox supports this. I just tried it (it's called…
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2021-11-09 · in Write thin to write fast
  17. …I just implemented "vector of strings" where all strings are contiguous in memory. The code: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/commit/bc8311... The basic idea is like you said: you keep strings contiguously in memory and…
    comment by kjksf · 2021-07-24 · in Modern C++ for C Programmers (2018)
  18. No, we don't misunderstand it. 10 lines per day is just rubbish. Here's an example: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf is code written by 2 people (me and another guy). It's written, documented, tested and bug fixed. It's 110k…
    comment by kjksf · 2020-02-12 · in Mythical man month: 10 lines per developer day
  19. …easily by configuring things like the server to which send the reports. I did this for SumatraPDF ( https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/blob/master/s... ) and now I think it's a must for writing desktop software that runs on…
    comment by kjksf · 2020-01-08 · in Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
  20. …(also supports PDF, MOBI, FB2, CHM, XPS, DjVu) - it's free, open-source software [0][1]. [0]: https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf [1]: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html
    comment by piotrkubisa · 2019-08-30 · in Microsoft Is Killing ePub Support in Edge Classic
  21. …to someone else's projects, which is the worst of both worlds. When I do open source (e.g. https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf ), the biggest advantage is that it is my project, I'm the boss and I make all the rules. I get to…
    comment by kjksf · 2016-03-10 · in Ask HN: Working on open source full-time vs at a fast growing product company