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New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Many new printing options The Advanced print dialog has new options, each with a matching -print-settings value: Print each page at its document page size (paper=auto) for documents with mixed page sizes (#533) Ch…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: JPEG XL images SumatraPDF opens JPEG XL (.jxl) images using the official libjxl decoder (#1943).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Table of contents and favorites modes in the command palette The command palette has two new modes. % mode (Navigate Table Of Contents, CmdNavigateTableOfContents, Shift + F12, or type % at the document) shows the…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Remove Deleted Files From History Remove Deleted Files From History (CmdRemoveDeletedFilesFromHistory, command palette) removes files that no longer exist on disk from the list of recently opened files.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Back / Forward toolbar buttons The toolbar has Back and Forward buttons.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Read Aloud (text-to-speech) SumatraPDF can read text aloud using Windows text-to-speech.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Open PDFs inside .p7m files SumatraPDF opens PDF documents wrapped in digitally signed .p7m files (#5618).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Digital signature info in Document Properties Document Properties shows the digital signatures in a PDF: who signed it, whether the certificate is trusted and whether the document is unchanged since signing.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Drag images out of documents Drag an image from a PDF or other document and drop it into another application, such as a web app, an image editor or File Explorer.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: PDF tools: compress, encrypt, delete and extract pages New commands, in the command palette and a new Document submenu of the page’s right-click menu: Compress PDF / Decompress PDF (CmdPdfCompress, CmdPdfDecompres…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Tab colors Set Tab Color (CmdSetTabColor, on a tab’s right-click menu) gives a document’s tab a custom color (#2725).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Change Background Color Change Background Color (CmdChangeBackgroundColor, command palette) opens a color picker to change the background color for the current file or for all files of the same type.

This feature is available in the pre-release builds.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Password-protected comic books Password-protected CBZ / CBR files can be opened (#95).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Extract Text From Document New Extract Text From Document command (CmdDocumentExtractText) in the Ctrl + k command palette saves the text of a document’s pages to a .txt file.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Bake PDF File New Bake PDF File command (CmdPdfBake) in the Ctrl + k command palette turns interactive form fields and annotations into static page content and saves the result as a new PDF, which then opens.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Save and restore tab groups You can save the current set of open tabs as a named group and restore it later with Save Tab Group (CmdTabGroupSave) and Restore Tab Group in the Ctrl + k command palette.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Scrollbars setting and Change Scrollbar dialog The new Scrollbars advanced setting picks the scrollbar style: windows, smart, overlay or hidden.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Tab switching in most-recently-used order The new TabsMru advanced setting makes Ctrl + Tab go through tabs in most-recently-used order.

Sumatra File Manager is a file manager for Windows.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Keyboard navigation in custom menu bar In the custom menu bar (shown when tabs are in the title bar), arrow keys move between menus, like a standard Windows menu bar.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Menu bar with tabs setting The new ShowMenubarWithTabs advanced setting controls whether the menu bar is shown when tabs are on.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Crop and resize images When you view an image file, Crop Image (CmdCropImage) and Resize Image (CmdResizeImage) open an editing window.

Sumatra File Manager is a file manager for Windows.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Red dot for unsaved changes A tab with unsaved annotation changes shows a red dot after its title.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Drag selected text to other apps Select text in a document, then drag it into another application such as a text editor (#507).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Take Screenshot New Take Screenshot command (CmdScreenshot) in the Ctrl + k command palette captures the desktop and every visible window.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Overlay scrollbar A new optional overlay scrollbar floats over the document.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Show PDF Info New Show PDF Info command (CmdPdfShowInfo) in the Ctrl + k command palette opens a window with details about the PDF: metadata, fonts, images, shadings, patterns and XObjects.

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Built-in PDF command-line tools SumatraPDF.exe includes MuPDF’s command-line tools: SumatraPDF <tool> <args>, with tools such as draw, convert, audit, bake, clean, create, extract, info, merge, pages, poster, reco…

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: DDE commands accept arguments Commands sent via DDE can take arguments, the same as in custom shortcuts (#5383).

New in the SumatraPDF pre-release builds: Detailed printer info and custom paper sizes -enum-printers (alias -list-printers) now works in release builds and shows much more: driver, status, defaults, paper sizes, resolutions and more.

I’m porting gpui-component (a Rust UI component library built on GPUI) to C++ as gpui-cpp.

SumatraPDF is a Windows GUI application written in C++ for viewing PDF, ePub and comic books.

I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub.

A new JavaScript library pretext for fast text measuring / layout popped up on social media.

So you’ve installed Visual Studio and you want to run the compiler cl.exe from command-line.

Anna’s Archive implements an interesting, anonymous way to create an account for web applications.

TOON stands for a Token-Oriented Object Notation.

Since I’ve decided to use TOON instead of JSON, I’ve benchmarked the performance of serialization of 2 Go TOON libraries compared to JSON built-in serialization.

I strongly believe that fast iteration cycle is important for productivity.

Zed has a good debugger built-in but their keybindings are crazy.

AltTab solves a simple problem really well: it brings Windows-style Alt + Tab window switching to Mac OS.

Stage Manager in Mac OS is not a secret, but I’ve only learned about it recently.

Today I figured out how to setup Zed to debug, at the same time, my go server and Svelte web app.

Svelte 5 just added a way to use async function in components.

When working on big JavaScript web apps, you can split the bundle in multiple chunks and import selected chunks lazily, only when needed.

In MS-DOS days programmers were limited to 640 kB of code.

This is a re-post of How to Permanently Increase Your Sales by 50% or More in Only One Day article by Steve Pavlina Of all the things you can do to increase your sales, one of the highest leverage activities is attempting to increase your products’ regist…

I’m working on a Go library appendstore for append-only store of lots of things in a single file.