[user_7832]

Tangential, is there any good smooth scrolling PDF viewer (for windows at least), that offers some level of customisation of view? (Like 2 pages side by side, and ideally dark mode and full top to bottom pages with hidden toolbars.)

Adobe Viewer (? not sure of the name) was the only adobe product that had this ability afaik, and while I managed to get an old exe, it's been discontinued unfortunately.

The closest appears to be Xodo PDF with pretty much all features, but it has a ton of popups.

[tech234a]

Maybe Sumatra PDF?

[user_7832]

Can it really offer those views? Last time I tried it, it seemed very, err, bare/unpolished. Kinda felt like Arch Linux, I don't doubt it can't do it, but I don't know if I can do it without reading some documentation (no disrespect intended to Arch or Sumatra!)

[jabroni_salad]

Sumatra can do side by side with or without a cover page but I don't think you can do a frameless UI and the dark theme is a bit fugly.

It is a fairly mature program, it's just that the developer decided to maximize on "small" and "fast" at the expense of other things.

[ZetaRicky]

Maybe Okular can be tweaked this way

[user_7832]

Thanks, I think I had tried it in the past, I'll check it out again

[carlosjobim]

Get a Mac and use Preview

[carlosjobim]

That's some very angry hacker down votes. What's wrong with using the right tool for the job? In another thread I suggested for another poster to sell their Mac and get a PC.

[Liftyee]

> is there any good smooth scrolling PDF viewer (for windows at least)

Seems like the asker is looking for Windows software in this case. Either way, "Get a Mac (...)" sounds a little unreasonable as a solution for "need a better PDF viewer".

Just my $0.02: I'd presume that if a Mac was a better fit for this commenter then they would have switched over already. For some, the extra attention to detail and improved UX of an Apple device is not worth the extra $$$ compared to an equal spec'd PC. There are also other concerns you are probably aware of.

[user_7832]

(I didn't downvote) I legitimately would get a mac, if only I could run my own OS on it easily and if it was reasonably repairable (I don't mind paying high prices for good products.)

...I suppose that's why I got a framework (13) lol