{"id":106,"date":"2009-09-30T11:02:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2015-10-11T22:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T04:30:37","slug":"pdf-viewer-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/pdf-viewer-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"PDF viewer roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to navigate a PDF version of a map is a frustrating experience. Based on the recommendations of <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5328211\/five-best-pdf-readers\">LifeHacker<\/a>, I tried three PDF viewers:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Adobe Acrobat : well supported, tons of features, too many features, bloated, slow, poor navigation, automatically launches auxiliary programs in the background.<\/li>\n<li>Tracker PDF-XChanger Viewer : free version is just spam for the Pro version. Bloated, horrible web site, poor documentation, poor support, poor navigation. There&#8217;s no way I would pay for a Pro version when the website looks like a spam front.<\/li>\n<li>Sumatra : crashed and wouldn&#8217;t render PDF.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was just looking for a PDF viewer that had:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>instant pan (the hand tool) via mouse or spacebar. All the PDF viewers I tried had this. And also an<\/li>\n<li>instant zoom either through a keyboard shortcut or mousewheel support, none of these had that except Sumatra, which wouldn&#8217;t even render the PDF.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As far as usability, for this application, I&#8217;m going to stick with Adobe Acrobat. It&#8217;s navigation is better than PDF-XChanger, and I&#8217;ve already gotten used to all its annoyances.<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE] I found a setting in Adobe Acrobat in the General setting called &#8220;Make Hand tool use mouse-wheel zooming&#8221; that&#8217;s working out for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to navigate a PDF version of a map is a frustrating experience. Based on the recommendations of LifeHacker, I tried three PDF viewers: Adobe Acrobat : well supported, tons of features, too many features, bloated, slow, poor navigation, automatically launches auxiliary programs in the background. Tracker PDF-XChanger Viewer : free version is just spam&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/pdf-viewer-roundup\/\" title=\"PDF viewer roundup\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PDF viewer roundup<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-showmewhatyougot","post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":773,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}