You might have other viewers installed alongside Sumatra and you
might wish to open current file in alternative viewer.
We make it easy for you. By default we auto-detect several other
PDF readers (Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, PDF XChange etc.). If they are
present, we add
Open with Adobe Reader
(etc.) items
to File
menu (available when you have .pdf document
opened in Sumatra).You can also add custom readers by using
advanced settings.
To configure a new external reader:
- use
Settings / Advanced Settings...
menu to open configuration file - find
ExternalViewers
section and fill it out
Here are the relevant settings:
>ExternalViewers [
[
CommandLine =
Name =
Filter =
]
]
CommandLine
is a full path to program's
executable. You need to add "%1"
at the end
(will be substituted for a full path of the document. You can also
use %p
which will be substituted for a page number
(assuming that the viewer has a command-line option to open a file
at a given page).Name
is the name of the program that will be
displayed in File
menu.Filter
dictates what kind of files can be opened by
the reader. For example:- to only activate it for PDF files, use
*.pdf
- to activate for PNG and JPEG files, use
*.png;*.jpg;*.jpeg
You can configure multiple external viewers.