CNET Editors' review
New document file formats are always cropping up, and on the whole that's a good thing; specialized formats reflect evolving technology. The only real drawback is that in order to make use of these new formats, you often need viewers or players that you don't already have. And who wants a hard drive crammed with software that can only do one thing? STDU Viewer attempts to solve this problem by letting you view a variety of file formats all in one simple program.
STDU Viewer's interface is plain and looks a lot like other document viewers, with a main display pane, a few menus, and a toolbar. It's very much like a basic PDF viewer, but in addition to PDF files it can also handle TIFF, DjVu, text files, Open XML Paper Specification, Comic Book Archive files, JBIG2 files, and a variety of image formats. The program supports bookmarking and has a handful of other basic features, including text and image selection, zooming, full-screen views, and the ability to search within documents. Although for the most part the program is quite intuitive and will be familiar to anyone who's used a document viewer before, we do wish that the program came with a Help file. Overall, STDU Viewer didn't knock our socks off, but it is a nice choice for people who need to view some of the less-common document formats that aren't supported by the average document viewer.
STDU Viewer installs and uninstalls without issues. We recommend this program to everyone.
Publisher's Description
From STD Utility:
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 following document formats: DjVu, TIFF, and PDF. For documents that support content, STDU Viewer gives the possibility to show the content for quick jumping from one section to another.
What's new in this version: Version 1.6.66 has fixed some minor bugs.
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4.1 starsout of 11 votes
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"Does the job of displaying all the likely viewer files."
Version: STDU Viewer 1.6.2
Pros
Displays pdf, DjVU and the common graphic formats.
Offers excellent printer options.
has powerful options.Cons
None that worried me.
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"A nice file viewer in two megabytes."
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.647
Pros
* It is small
* It views multiple file formats, including PDF, TIFF, DJVU, XPS, and more.
* It allows you to select text and specific chunks of a document.
* It is free to downloadCons
* it is not open source (whah)
Summary
STDU is a great little file viewer for windows that isn't really bloated. It is under 3 megabytes and yet views all the files you need it to, but it isn't open source, which I don't really understand, because they are giving it away for free, but oh well, it is still free to download, and as long as you are not taking it apart, you are using it legally.
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"Simple - does what it claims to do"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.647
Pros
So easy to use - does nearly all text formats and free.
Cons
No real deal breakers
Summary
Well worth a quick download
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"Excellent program"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.622
Pros
* Small download size
* multiple formats supported including PDF, XPS & TIFCons
The interface is too simple; also lacks basic annotation functionality
Summary
A must have program to replace adobe PDF viewer and Microsoft XPS viewer
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"Works very well and appears to have full cap. as viewer"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.622
Pros
Doesn't load automatically
Cons
non apparent
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"everything OK"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.622
Pros
Easy to use interface and simple
Cons
do not know yet
Summary
Easy to use, fast, new tools
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"It's an Amazing product!"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.562
Pros
It does exactly what i wnat it to do... I'm reading more comics than ever thanks to this thing...
Cons
What about full view??
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"Great document viewer"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.402
Pros
Bookmarks
Remembers the documents you had open and what page you were on, if you set it in the options
Faster than other readers
Less memory takenCons
The bookmark feature could travel with the document, instead it saves it in the user profile folder on the computer so that you have to export them to go with your file.
Summary
One of the best PDF and document viewers I've used. It's much faster in starting than Adobe Reader or Foxit. Doesn't have the vulnerability that those 2 have either. I use it for all PDF viewing on all my computers. I highly recommend it.
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"a very good viewer"
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.326
Pros
the zoom ing parameter appears to have finer settings than the other viwers
Cons
Could not open one e-book that is up to 105MB.
the toolbars are relatively small. -
"Not good at all for XP x64... Error after error."
Version: STDU Viewer 1.5.143
Pros
none, was not able to start.
Cons
Won't start on Win XP x64 version. Program installs but fails at a first start. Whatever version you use. In compatibility mode still no luck.
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