Generally, the performance of Sumatra PDF Reader is good and worth giving a try. Use right-click context menu.Sumatra PDF Reader is a popular PDF reader and its performance catches the eyes of myriads of people.

added ability to hide scrollbar (more screen space for the document).

added rotate left / right to the toolbar.

changed toolbar to scale with DPI by using new, vector icons.

added support for adding / removing / editing annotations in PDF files.

open PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBR, CBZ files via drag drop.

open PDF, DjVu, XPS, CBR, CBZ files via menu.

You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind. Sumatra PDF Portable is the lightweight Sumatra PDF packaged as a portable app, so you can view PDF files on the go. Sumatra PDF is distributed under GPLv2 license.

Sumatra supports SyncTeX, a bidirectional method for synchronizing TeX source and PDF output produced by pdfTeX or XeTeX. Sumatra is multilingual, with 20 community-contributed translations. Hyperlinks that are embedded in PDF documents are not active in Sumatra. This results in very large spool files and potentially slow printing on printers with little memory. Printing is achieved in Sumatra by transforming each pdf page into a bitmap image. Without closing the PDF file a user can recompile the text document and generate a new PDF file and then press the R key to refresh the PDF document. It has a 5 MB setup file, compared to Adobe Reader’s 50 MB, for Windows. As is characteristic of many portable applications, Sumatra takes up little disk space. This classifies it as a portable application. It’s designed for portable use: it’s just one file with no external dependencies so you can easily run it from external USB drive. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Sumatra PDF Portable is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows.

Sumatra pdf portable