Hi:
I need to know if SUMATRA allows me to view 2 documents at a time to compare them.
That is two parallel windows at the same time.
Thank you so much.
PS: Sorry if you don’t understand well. I do not speak English and I am translating with “Google Translator”.
It’s somewhat complicated.
If you uncheck “Use Tabs” option via menu “Settings / Options” and restart sumatra, you’ll be able to open multiple instances of sumatra with the same file and then you can place them side-by-side and compare.
Thank you very much kjk.
A hug from Argentina.
I suggest you to use Diffpdf or Diffpdf Portable. It requires Windows.
If you’re not using Windows, you can try KIWI PDF Comparer (Windows, Mac OSx, Linux).
There are several ways SumatraPDF can help with manual visual “diffing” between two similar pages, and the one I use first is to fit the two files/pages in a pair of tabs then flip rapidly between them
Thats most easily done using just two tabs and alternating between them either
or much much faster (Epileptic WARNING)
here are two PNG images you can load into SumatraPDF as separate tabs for testing that out (right click to download
You may find 95% simply by eye but using SumatraPDF will bring that nearer 98% (spoiler = watch the chair leg near the cat)
Only by zooming in to pixel level could we expect to get 99% or 100%
If we want to spot 100% the best PDF option from within SumatraPDF is to send via ExternalViewers any two similar files and export to DiffPDF (as in RBRapa s first suggestion above) note that would only apply to PDF not PNG so would need to save as .pdf first and then reopen to export them. Also note SumatraPDF exports only one name at a time so I use a batch file to collect two filenames to send via CLI to diffpdf.exe. the resulting PDF differences output will be sent back to SumatraPDF and look like this.
