Desktop PDF reader for WinRT (SumatraPDF)

[irony_delerium]

Since I can't seem to post this in the correct place (Windows 8 > Windows 8 Development & Hacking on one of the jailbroken RT app threads):

SumatraPDF 2.2.1 - look it up on Wikipedia or Google since I also can't post links...

This is a reasonably capable PDF reader. (Also, from my use of it today, it's certainly more friendly t- o touch than Foxit Reader is on a touch-capable Win8 Pro system.) It also appears to support many other formats - I tried an ePub with it and that also worked well.

I had to make a few minor patches to the source in places (expectations of x86/x64 in a few libraries), and replace the bundled JPEG library to get it to build. I'm assuming printing support will work, but I haven't had reason to test that.

A few visual anomalies seem to exist, but they also seem to be pretty minor. (The toolbar doesn't render quite right, which looks like broken icon references.)

I've attached the binary; contact me and I'll send the link to the source.

Chris

 

[someniceguy]

Do you know a good open source PDF editor for Windows? I am not saying you have to compile it to ARM, I can take a look at it myself

SumatraPDF is only a reader as you said.

I need to annotate PDFs and fill out forms. One app at the store does this to some extent, but it's kind of limited.

 

[GoodDayToDie]

Thanks for the port; it's added to the list!

@someniceguy: You can actually ue Word 2013 to edit PDFs. If you just need annotation and form filling, though, those can be done with the built-in PDF reader (the Metro-style one). Note that annotation requires a stylus, though, so not available on Surface RT.

 

[someniceguy]

First of all, thanks for the info.

@someniceguy: You can actually ue Word 2013 to edit PDFs.

It asks me to convert the PDF to a Word document first. That's a deal break for me.

If you just need annotation and form filling, though, those can be done with the built-in PDF reader (the Metro-style one).

I can use Reader to make basic annotations such as highlighting with a given color and adding notes. Nothing else, it seems. It's a very limited program.

The only semi decent program I found is PDF Touch, but it too has limitations. For example, it gives you a very limited selection of colors for highlighting. And it does not support all types of annotations (or I could not see them), such as adding notes. The worse of it, though, is that it does not show the table of contents of the PDF, and I could not find any way to search inside the PDF.

Use ezPDF (Android) for a brief time and you realize Store Apps for PDF handling are from the stone ages.

Again, thanks for the suggestions, but still looking for that open source advanced program for PDF manipulation.

 

[save_jeff]

The progromm is a little bit ugly but works realy fine ! even faster then the mtro app

 

[irony_delerium]

Yeah, it doesn't take too much to beat the speed of the Reader app. Of course, I was interested in using it with big PDFs - on average, 300 pages, mostly D&D books actually, which left me wanting a program that responded in a timely manner, and would allow me to have multiple files open at the same time, since I'm usually using them as reference material while playing... Reader blew chunks for that on an i5-480m @ 2.66, so there wasn't a chance it would do better on a far wimpier processor...

 

[Merconium]

Has the developer integrated GPU rendering yet? I know he previously complained about the cost/reward ratio. Without it, though, Sumatra really lags all other readers on scanned (old) PDFs or complex ones.

 

[irony_delerium]

Has the developer integrated GPU rendering yet? I know he previously complained about the cost/reward ratio. Without it, though, Sumatra really lags all other readers on scanned (old) PDFs or complex ones.

Didn't look like it had any Direct2D dependencies or other such things in it. I also ended up potentially slowing it down a bit by replacing libjpeg-turbo with the original libjpeg, which had it's own gcc dependencies.

On the other hand, at least for the purposes that I wanted a PDF reader for - multiple files open at once, easy access to bookmarks, decently quick rendering - it seems to be good enough. The rendering speed isn't great, but it's better than Reader, which is the other reader I tried before building this one.

 

[apandada1]

The version of SumatraPDF posted here did not work for me. I got the error message "SumatraPDF crashed Sorry, that shouldn't have happened!".

However, this version worked for me. https://github.com/plumeqi/RT_Arm32_Porting/tree/main/SumatraPDF3.3.3/Bin

Now I can read PDF as well as DjVu and ePubs on my Surface RT.

 

[cxhx]

The version of SumatraPDF posted here did not work for me. I got the error message "SumatraPDF crashed Sorry, that shouldn't have happened!".

However, this version worked for me. https://github.com/plumeqi/RT_Arm32_Porting/tree/main/SumatraPDF3.3.3/Bin

Now I can read PDF as well as DjVu and ePubs on my Surface RT.

Thank you, bro. I can use it now in 2022.