PDFGen VS sumatrapdf

Compare PDFGen vs sumatrapdf and see what are their differences.

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PDFGen sumatrapdf
2 44
465 12,571
- 2.3%
5.0 9.7
9 days ago 6 days ago
C C
The Unlicense GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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PDFGen

Posts with mentions or reviews of PDFGen. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

sumatrapdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of sumatrapdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-20.
  • MuPDF WASM Viewer Demo
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2024
    I’m curious, have you tried SumatraPDF (uses muPDF under the hood)?

    https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

  • SumatraPDF Reader
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Oct 2023
    Do you mind reporting those issues either to SumatraPDF at https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues or directly to MuPDF at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ if it also has the same issue? Thank you!

    There are many wonderfully weird PDFs and epubs out there, but we do our best to fix issues. :)

  • JPEG XL in EPUBs and PDFs?
    1 project | /r/jpegxl | 9 Jun 2023
  • EPUB 3.3 becomes a W3C recommendation
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2023
  • FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Apr 2023
    FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040.

    I have just learned the Firefox 93 added support XFA - https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html .

    So it would appear there are free software solutions to XFA forms.

    Just because something doesn't seem far-fetched to you, doesn't mean most people will regard it as far-fetched.

    Many people all sorts of "sectarian objections" - far more than there are SovCits or other tax protesters. Stallman has never come across as a tax protester. Ergo, I think it's far-fetched that "sectarian objections" is strongly associated with tax protests.

    Further, at https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html we can read Stallman opinine that we need to "return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll" by making taxation more progressive. At https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."

  • firefox users stay winning
    2 projects | /r/CuratedTumblr | 15 Mar 2023
    link for the lazy
  • a good pdf reader
    2 projects | /r/linux | 6 Mar 2023
    If you are going to run something in wine, try sumatrapdf. It's FOSS but Windows only. (sadly, but runs great on wine)
  • YSK that Adobe Reader can remember the last page where you left off
    1 project | /r/YouShouldKnow | 5 Jan 2023
    Sumatra is Adobe free, free, and can remember the page you were on.
  • What's a good, free PDF viewer?
    1 project | /r/sysadmin | 5 Nov 2022
  • Firefox 106.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
    4 projects | /r/firefox | 18 Oct 2022
    Sumatra PDF has always been my choice: minimal, lightweight, no bloat... just perfect!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PDFGen and sumatrapdf you can also consider the following projects:

libharu - libharu - free PDF library

sioyek - Sioyek is a PDF viewer with a focus on textbooks and research papers

PDF-Writer - High performance library for creating, modiyfing and parsing PDF files in C++

pdfsam - PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages

bitio - Optimized bit-level Reader and Writer for Go.

fbpdf - A small framebuffer pdf, djvu, epub, xps, and cbz viewer

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

markdown - markdown parser and HTML renderer for Go

ptxt - Fast Text-to-PDF Converter

pdftk

clawPDF - Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions.