STDU Viewer is computer
software, a compact viewer for many computer
file format
A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary or free.
Some file formats ...
s:
Portable Document Format (PDF), World Wide Fund for Nature (
WWF),
DjVu
DjVu ( , like French "déjà vu") is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs. It uses technologies such as ima ...
,
comic book archive (CBR or CBZ),
FB2
FictionBook is an open XML-based e-book format which originated and gained popularity in Russia. FictionBook files have the filename extension. Some readers also support ZIP-compressed FictionBook files ( or )
The FictionBook format does not ...
,
ePUB
EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for ''electronic publication'' and is sometimes styled ''ePub''. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones ...
,
XML Paper Specification (XPS), Text Compression for Reader (TCR),
Mobipocket
Mobipocket SA was a French company incorporated in March 2000 that created the .mobi e-book file format and produced the Mobipocket Reader software for mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDA) and desktop operating systems.
The Mobipoc ...
(MOBI),
AZW, multi-page
TIFF,
text file (TXT), PalmDoc (
PDB),
Windows Metafile (EMF),
Windows Metafile (WMF), bitmap (
BMP), Graphics Interchange Format (
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; or , see pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on 15 June 1987. ...
),
JPEG
JPEG ( ) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and imag ...
-JPG,
Portable Network Graphics
Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced , colloquially pronounced ) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange F ...
(PNG),
Photoshop Document (PSD), PiCture eXchang (
PCX-DCX).
[
][
] It works under Microsoft Windows, and is
free
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* Emancipate, to procur ...
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
DjVu ( , like French "déjà vu") is a computer file format designed primarily to store scanned documents, especially those containing a combination of text, line drawings, indexed color images, and photographs. It uses technologies such as ima ...
, and
Tagged Image File Format (TIFF).
Version 1.0.76 introduced
Unicode 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
Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and Web services developed by Adobe Inc. to view, create, manipulate, print and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
The family comprises Acrobat Reader (formerly Reader), Acrobat (forme ...
’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 Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM),
Microsoft Reader (LIT),
document (
DOC), and HyperText Markup Language (
HTML).
[
] 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
*
{{XPS software
PDF readers
Media readers
Image viewers
Windows-only freeware
Windows-only software