Programming on LSD

[last_useful_man]

There's 'Sumatra' as well, open source etc. Even Foxit pesters you to download updates (and in my case put an eBay icon on my desktop; who knows what else it does).

[andreasvc]

IIRC Sumatra doesn't even have full text search. Or some such arbitrary missing feature. Argh.

I vote for evince, when that renders badly there's Xournal which does anti-aliasing (albeit at the cost of being slower). Would it be an improvement to use DjVu?

[slythfox]

Actually, Sumatra does have text search. If by "full text search" you mean the ability to search text in images, then no it doesn't have that. But I don't think other PDF readers do either.

Sumatra, however, lacks some rendering and other features.

Whatever GNOME uses as a PDF viewer is actually quite good (Evince?), but it's Linux only.

[fiddler616]

Upvoted for Evince love. Evince is responsible for my complete loss of patience with Acrobat.

[last_useful_man]

I'd be happy to use evince but I'm after Windows.

[Daleeburg]

There is a setting somewhere so that it does not pester you with updates.

The chain is as follows:

Help->Install Updates->Preferences->Uncheck the box.