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GrannyGrump · 03-01-2019, 03:52 AM

Why am I the only user who seems to find Sumatra abominably slow to render?
I have used it on my XP Dell desktop, Win8 Asus laptop, now on Win10 HP laptop. All have been 64-bit machines, with plenty of ram and drive space, and I always find Sumatra takes 6 to 10 seconds to load each page, one at an excruciating time (except for pdfs that are image pages only with no text layer, which are fairly snappy.)

I have tried it off and on ever since it was in beta, donkey's years ago, and my experience has never changed.

PDF-XChange has been my default reader for years now, and I couldn't be happier.

Is there a trick to using Sumatra that I need to know?

03-01-2019, 03:52 AM	#539
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,231 Karma: 35158061 Join Date: May 2011 Location: PA {back in the usa!} Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	Why am I the only user who seems to find Sumatra abominably slow to render? I have used it on my XP Dell desktop, Win8 Asus laptop, now on Win10 HP laptop. All have been 64-bit machines, with plenty of ram and drive space, and I always find Sumatra takes 6 to 10 seconds to load each page, one at an excruciating time (except for pdfs that are image pages only with no text layer, which are fairly snappy.) I have tried it off and on ever since it was in beta, donkey's years ago, and my experience has never changed. PDF-XChange has been my default reader for years now, and I couldn't be happier. Is there a trick to using Sumatra that I need to know? Last edited by GrannyGrump; 03-01-2019 at 03:57 AM.