STDU Viewer is computer

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, a compact viewer for many computer file formats:

Portable Document Format Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating syste ...

(PDF), World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF), DjVu, comic book archive (CBR or CBZ), FB2, ePUB,

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(XPS), Text Compression for Reader (TCR), Mobipocket (MOBI), AZW, multi-page

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(TXT), PalmDoc ( PDB),

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(EMF),

(WMF), bitmap ( BMP), Graphics Interchange Format ( GIF), JPEG-JPG, Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Photoshop Document (PSD), PiCture eXchang (

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-DCX). It works under Microsoft Windows, and is free for non-commercial use. STDU viewer is developed in the programming language

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Features

STDU Viewer has a

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. Current versions allow users to save and restore sessions manually. It displays thumbnails of pages, it can create users' bookmarks, make color adjustments, and change text settings. The program supports three types of search algorithms and all the search results can be displayed in a list. The rotation to 90 degrees option is useful for the portrait orientation of monitors. The opened document pages can be exported to text or image.

Version history

The first STDU Viewer was version 1.0.60, released on 13 September 2007. It supported three formats: PDF (including hyperlinks embedded), DjVu, and

Tagged Image File Format Tag Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is widely supported by scanning, faxing, word process ...

(TIFF). Version 1.0.76 introduced

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character support. Version 1.4.7 introduced the Print document function.

Critical reception

STDU Viewer was appreciated for its feature to read a wide range of ebook formats and can be considered as a replacement for Adobe Acrobat’s reader. STDU Viewer was included in the list of top 50 freeware of 2009 and best software for students. The program doesn't support formats for

online help Online help is topic-oriented, procedural or reference information delivered through computer software. It is a form of user assistance. The purpose of most online help is to assist in using a software application, web application or operating sys ...

Microsoft Compiled HTML Help Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of HTML pages, an index and other navigation tools. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension .CHM, for Com ...

(CHM),

Microsoft Reader Microsoft Reader is a discontinued Microsoft application for reading e-books, first released in August 2000, that used its own .LIT format. It was available for Windows computers and Pocket PC PDAs. The name was also used later for an unrelated a ...

(LIT), document (

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), and HyperText Markup Language (

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). When printing PDF document, a large temporary file is created, so the printing process is slow.

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* {{XPS software PDF readers Media readers Image viewers Windows-only freeware Windows-only software

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