STDU Viewer is computer
software
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The history of software is closely tied to the development of digital comput ...
, a compact viewer for many computer
file format
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s:
Portable Document Format
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(PDF), World Wide Fund for Nature (
WWF),
DjVu,
comic book archive (CBR or CBZ),
FB2,
ePUB
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,
XML Paper Specification
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(XPS), Text Compression for Reader (TCR),
Mobipocket (MOBI),
AZW, multi-page
TIFF,
text file
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In ope ...
(TXT), PalmDoc (
PDB),
Windows Metafile (EMF),
Windows Metafile (WMF), bitmap (
BMP), Graphics Interchange Format (
GIF
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),
JPEG
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-JPG,
Portable Network Graphics
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(PNG),
Photoshop Document (PSD), PiCture eXchange (
PCX-DCX).
[
][
] It works under Microsoft Windows, and is
free for non-commercial use.
[
STDU viewer is developed in the programming language C++.
]
Features
STDU Viewer has a tabbed document interface.[
][
] 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 or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers. TIFF is w ...
(TIFF).
Version 1.0.76 introduced Unicode
Unicode or ''The Unicode Standard'' or TUS is a character encoding standard maintained by the Unicode Consortium designed to support the use of text in all of the world's writing systems that can be digitized. Version 16.0 defines 154,998 Char ...
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 a form of user assistance that provides topic-oriented, procedural or reference information designed to assist in using a software application, web application or operating system. Online help linked to the application's state ( ...
Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM), Microsoft Reader (LIT),[ document ( DOC), and HyperText Markup Language (]HTML
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It defines the content and structure of web content. It is often assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets ( ...
).[
] When printing PDF document, a large temporary file is created, so the printing process is slow.
See also
* List of PDF software
* Comparison of image viewers
* List of portable software
References
External links
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{{XPS software
PDF readers
Document viewers
Image viewers
Windows-only freeware