| STDU Viewer | |
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| Developer | STDUtility |
| Initial release | September 13, 2007; 18 years ago (2007-09-13) |
| Stable release | 1.6.375 / April 27, 2015; 10 years ago (2015-04-27) |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | Windows[1] |
| Size | 2.1MB |
| Available in | English,Russian,French,German |
| Type | Universal document viewer |
| License | Proprietary, free for non-commercial use |
| Website | www |
STDU Viewer is computersoftware, a compact viewer for many computerfile formats:Portable Document Format (PDF), World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF),DjVu,comic book archive (CBR or CBZ),FB2,ePUB,XML Paper Specification (XPS), Text Compression for Reader (TCR),Mobipocket (MOBI),AZW, multi-pageTIFF,text file (TXT), PalmDoc (PDB),Windows Metafile (EMF),Windows Metafile (WMF), bitmap (BMP), Graphics Interchange Format (GIF),JPEG-JPG,Portable Network Graphics (PNG),Photoshop Document (PSD), PiCture eXchange (PCX-DCX).[2][3] It works under Microsoft Windows, and isfree for non-commercial use.[1]
STDU viewer is developed in the programming languageC++.
STDU Viewer has atabbed document interface.[4][5] Current versions allow users to save and restore sessions manually. It displays thumbnails of pages,[4][5] it can create users' bookmarks,[4][5] make color adjustments,[6] and change text settings.[7] The program supports three types of search algorithms and all the search results can be displayed in a list.[4]
The rotation to 90 degrees option is useful for theportrait orientation of monitors.[7][8] The opened document pages can be exported to text or image.[6]
The first STDU Viewer was version 1.0.60, released on 13 September 2007. It supported three formats: PDF (including hyperlinks embedded),DjVu, andTagged Image File Format (TIFF).
Version 1.0.76 introducedUnicode character support. Version 1.4.7 introduced the Print document function.
STDU Viewer was appreciated for its feature to read a wide range of ebook formats and can be considered as a replacement forAdobe Acrobat’s reader.[5][9]
STDU Viewer was included in the list of top 50 freeware of 2009[10] and best software for students.[11]
The program doesn't support formats foronline helpMicrosoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM),Microsoft Reader (LIT),[5] document (DOC), and HyperText Markup Language (HTML).[12] When printing PDF document, a large temporary file is created, so the printing process is slow.[citation needed]
