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I'm especially proud of adding Command Palette (Ctrl + K).

And you can now customize keyboard shortcuts.

And created https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests so that you can vote on features I should implement next (people really want the dark theme).

And I'm making https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease daily builds with seamless auto-updates so that people interested in latest features can get them as soon as they are implemented (I've already added .avif support, and commands to re-open last closed file and clear history)

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I have now been on Linux for quite some time but I remember how happy I was when I found as a teenager your fast no bs pdf reader for my not at all powerful old windows machine. The sheer joy of kicking Adobe Acrobat reader out of the system tray...

I'll add to the list of thank yous, I've been a SumatraPDF user for years and never looked back. It's everything I love in a program: light, fast, does one job perfectly. Kudos from Belgium ! :)

Funny, I use SumatraPDF in Belgium too :-) Thanks !

I don't know whether this would be you or mupdf -- I suspect the latter -- but I'd really like to be able change the line spacing (i.e. the "leading") in the epub reading mode.

I find line spacing to be one of the larger factors contributing to readability (or lack thereof).

Regardless, thanks, and cheers!

Incredible piece of work. Thank you for dealing with the PDF spec(?) so I don’t have to.

That is mostly done by the MuPDF library, which SumatraPDF provides a nice interface for (along with supporting many other formats).

I think the difficulty of PDFs is not so much the spec, but the many many non-spec-compliant PDF files out there that need workarounds.

Thank you for such an amazing product, I have been using Sumatra everywhere I can for years. In an era of bloated software you showed there is another way.

Thank you for your work on SumatraPDF, it's the best PDF and epub viewer I've ever used.

Thank you very much for adding font recognition in a second properties window. I've been able to rid myself of Acrobat for months now. My only critique would be that the font list would be better kept in the first properties window. One Ctrl+D is more elegant than two.

Would a Dark Mode come in the next release?

Possibly. It's the most requested feature at https://sumatrapdf.canny.io/feature-requests

I don't use Windows, but when I have to, SumatraPDF is one of the first things I install. Thanks.

The 64 bit installer of the prerelease (SumatraPDF-prerel-64-install.exe) seems to be 404ing. The other three downloads work, though.

https://files.sumatrapdfreader.org/file/kjk-files/software/s...

  {
    "code": "not_found",
    "message": "File with such name does not exist.",
    "status": 404
  }

Thanks, I'm proxying downloads via cloudflare (otherwise I would pay $500/mo bandwidth bill) and sometimes it breaks.

I've cleared the cache and it seems to be working (at least for me).

I've been dying for a proper dark theme. I think there's been a workaround/hack to do something like it, but it doesn't look good that way.

This used to be my go-to reader when I used to use windows. Really snappy, always did the job. Congratulations on the release.

is there an option to display two pages side-by-side for a PDF that I am missing?

I presume this is very common use-case for ebooks?

View -> Facing

Ctrl-7 or Ctrl-8, depending on whether you want page 1 by itself or beside page 2.

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