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Refrigerator:
I've been using chrome to view datasheets but it's very limited in its capability.
I've tried a few chrome extensions but they kinda suck.
And i'm looking for free software because of course i would.  ;D ;D

There are two main things that i want to do in a PDF:
* Highlight because i often lose my track i the sea of text.
* Bookmarks because jumping between registers in micro datasheets is a major PITA.

I epecially hate when the datasheet tells you to look at figure x for whatever diagram or chart they want to show you and the text has a link that takes you to the figure, so you click the link and get teleported to an unknown location within the datasheet with no way to get back to where you were previously. So then you have to scroll and search for the spot where you were before you clicked on the link, which gets really tiresome and interruptive for my non-existent attention span. Sometimes by the time you get back to where you left you have already forgotten what the figure was about so you have to go back  |O |O
Or figure x is not a link so you have to scroll around and search for the figure otherwise you don't know what the tempco is, or the timings, or the data structure, or the block diagram of the device.  >:(

In Dave's recent jellybean video he used some kind of PDF viewer which looked pretty interesting, i wonder what it's called.
Didn't look like it needed an account or anything, i assume it's free? (i'm such a cheapskate, don't even mention it)

I'm interested to hear your opinions.

shakalnokturn:
I got over pissed off with Adobe PDF viewer years ago, have been using Foxit since. It suits my needs most of the time, I'm not sure it has all the features you want though. It is free.

Bassman59:
SumatraPDF on Windows, Preview on macOS.

TerraHertz:
Foxit on Windows. But then I vocally hate PDF, and the viewer is in that loop so maybe part of the cause? (I don't think so though.)
By chance I happened to install the latest version of free Foxit PDF viewer on a laptop yesterday.
Apparently the free version no longer has PDF creation capability (which I never used anyway.)
The installer uses the usual weasel wording to try to get you to agree to also installing some other crap; just read that user agreement page carefully and decline all.
It has a start window with self-promoting static adverts - but they can be turned off permanently. (ask google how)
It uses the 'top ribbon' controls abomination, but you can easyily banish that.
Some space-wasting crap down the left edge of the window, also easily kicked off.
Leaving a nice clean window with no waste of screen area.

hans:
Qpdfview on Linux. I hardly do any serious datasheet intensive work on Windows anymore (or perhaps in a VM), so I don't know about Foxit features.. What attracted me to qpdfview is that I can simply duplicate a PDF tab, and have the same PDF document open at the same place and then scroll from there.

I got way too pissed off at the Adobe reader many moons ago that it thought sanity was only 1 reader/tab open at once per PDF file. Even web browsers would have better reading support  |O

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