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Add to SafariWhen comparing AbleWord vs Sumatra PDF, the Slant community recommends Sumatra PDF for most people. In the question“What are the best PDF editors?” Sumatra PDF is ranked 5th while AbleWord is ranked 25th.
Specs
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Free
AbleWorld is a completely free program.
Pro Starts quickly
Pro Free and open source
Sumatra is available for free, licensed under GPL with source code available on GitHub.
Pro Low resource usage
Pro Does not have heavy editor features
Annotations and other heavy features are just not needed in reader.
Pro Extensive keyboard shortcuts
Pro Elegant interface
Pro Portable
The application consists of a single file that can be run without installation. You can put it on an external device, such as an usb thumb stick and run it on any Windows machine from the thumb stick.
Pro Multilingual
It's available in 69 languages.
Cons
Con Includes only a small subset of PDF editing features
Included are only common word processor features for PDF editing. It also means that PDF files imported to AbleWord will attempt to match existing PDF layouts to those supported by AbleWord.
Con Windows only
Con Lacking in features
Sumatra aims for simplicity at the expense of functionality. For example, there's no way to annotate PDFs or edit them.
Con Fonts are not smooth enough
Not as smooth as e.g. Adobe Reader. No anti-aliasing
Con Cannot crop empty fields
Just got used to this killing feature on Goodreader on Mac.
