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STDU Viewer

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Are you tired from many viewers one for each document? Do you want to have, one program for all your technical documentations, scientific books and so on? Do you want to have program, which fast opens files, fast loads pages and fast renders page to screen? And all of this in fre.

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License model

  • Free PersonalProprietary

Application types

Platforms

  • Windows
Discontinued

The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.6.375, released in April 2015, can be still downloaded from the official website

4.2 / 5 Avg rating (4)
93 likes
6comments
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Ad-free
  2.  Portable
  3.  Tabbed interface
  4.  Support for regular expressions

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STDU Viewer information

  • Developed by

    STDU
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free Personal product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.2
  • Alternatives

    90 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about STDU Viewer, and it has gotten 93 likes

STDU Viewer was added to AlternativeTo by Riot on May 23, 2009 and this page was last updated Apr 20, 2020.

Comments and Reviews

   
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gennadysmagin
  
Top positive commentMay 12, 2020

This is the best program for viewing documents on Windows. Lightweight RAM, perfect stability, easy settings, support for a huge number of formats. Unfortunately, it is not developed and abandoned as of an 2020..

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bawldiggle
CommentJul 29, 2020

Still available from STDU Viewer, Home page
Freeware for private non-commercial or educational use.

29-July-2020

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test8758295
  
ReviewJun 24, 2020

Used to be the best document viewer but now it's time to forget it and go futher. Since the project discontinued many years ago numerous bugs and crashes happen.

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daedalusmetion
CommentMay 24, 2017

Best document viewer ever. Supports tonns of formats.

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snshepherd
CommentMay 22, 2017

It's got a great UI and the UI/UX is similar enough to Acrobat Reader DC that you can migrate without a learning curve. It's also more lightweight and thus efficient and quick. And it can be used to read many different formats.

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Bitchomp
  
Positive commentMar 29, 2011

Fast and reliable, but no editing or commenting. Opens 50 pdfs without a sweat, adobe often crashes with five. Tabbed documents. Utilitarian interface. Session restore. Portable version. Active development. Free for home and education. No bullshit. Recommendable.

Update May 2018: It seems STDU Viewer is no longer in active development; their news page says last updated in Apr 2015. There is a rare bug where sometimes after scrolling a page fails to render.

I still believe this is the best option if all you need is a viewer. Zoom level "Fit width (advanced)", brightness controls, and regex search are rare features. It also has highlighting and bookmarks, but consider Citavi instead if want those kinds of features.

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What is STDU Viewer?

Are you tired from many viewers one for each document? Do you want to have, one program for all your technical documentations, scientific books and so on? Do you want to have program, which fast opens files, fast loads pages and fast renders page to screen? And all of this in free software?

STDU Viewer is a document viewer for multiple file formats. The goal of this software is to replace the multiple document viewers with a single simple application. STDU Viewer supports TXT, TIFF, PDF and DjVu documents format. This is most popular formats for scientific and technical documentation.