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The installation folder contains now some additional files, that were hidden inside the application data archive file:
README.mdCONTRIBUTING.md- etc.
If the theme is set to dark mode, the scrollbars are now displayed dark, instead of light grey.
See issue #71.
- Fixed brief flashing of the content blocking banner during application start
- Regression fix: it was not possible anymore to navigate to headers with non ASCII characters in them. See issue #70.
- Bugfix at file type handling: the checkbox in the settings dialog, deciding whether the file shall be rendered as Markdown, was unchecked, if the file handling contains big letters, e.g.
.MD, causing the application to lose the association for rendering it as Markdown. See issue #72.
Unblocked content can now be remembered (issue #61)
It is now possible, to unblock images permanently, meaning that media doesn't need to be unblocked again after restarting the application.
Clicking on a blocked image opens now a menu:
The blocked content banner has now a button for unblocking, that opens also a menu on clicking:
Clicking on "Temporary" behaves like clicking on the banner itself in previous versions.
Clicking on "Permanent" opens a dialog, allowing to select, which content shall stay unblocked:
Single window position, independent of the document (issue #67)
The application settings have now an option for remembering the window position:
- "Remember for each document" (default, as previous versions): Remembers the window position for each document
- "Remember single position": The application opens the window always at the last previously opened position, independently of the opened document
Issue #62
HTML anchors can now be defined also via name, additionally to the already supported id attribute.
Example: Alternatively of using
<!-- Already supported previously -->
<a id="anchor-with-id"></a>you can use
<!-- Now supported, but deprecated in HTML standard -->
<a name="anchor-with-id"></a>Note: The file mdview-3.2.0-x64.exe was marked as malicious on VirusTotal by "Bkav Pro" as "W32.AIDetectMalware".
Currently, it isn't of much use under Windows, but it doesn't hurt either. It was done for porting the application to macOS.
The application has two new command line switches for testing and diagnosis purposes:
--app-path: Outputs the path to the installation directory and exits immediately--data-path: Outputs the path to the data directory (where besides other thinks, the settings are stored) and exist immediately
The Windows command line behaves weirdly when invoking the application. To workaround this, a batch file mdview-cli.cmd was added to the installation directory.
Issue #57
The recognition of file ending is case insensitive now, i.e. .MD is now the same as .md
Issue #58
The application now runs properly after installing globally via the MSI package.
- Fixed a regression at the context menu that too many entries appeared
Issue #52
Absolute local paths to media and in links where not regarded by the application, leading to be broken.
Issue #53
This is the first release containing an MSI package.
There are now additional ways to zoom in and zoom out your document, change the sizes of the contents:
- Minus and plus keys on numpad
- Control + mouse wheel
See issue #50
Issue #47
Certain header titles, e.g. "Content" could cause the application to behave weirdly or even break the usability.
Issue #45
The application crashed after a click on a link to a non existing file. Now, only a meaningful error message is displayed.
The About Dialog was reworked to fit better the other dialogs
All settings are now reachable via a new settings dialog. It can be opened via main menu "Edit" --> "Settings..." or via Ctrl+,
Issue #40
Any text file can now be dropped into the Markdown Viewer window to open it. By default, a dialog asks whether to open the file in the window were dropped or in a new window.
Issue #37
If a Markdown file contains a metadata header, it is now rendered properly. In the settings dialog is an option to hide this header.
Issue #41
The File menu now contains a list of recently opened files. The count can be adjusted in the settings.
- Mermaid diagrams are now displayed with readable colors in dark mode (issue #39)
Mermaid diagrams can now be displayed.
Example:
```mermaid
graph TD
A[Christmas] -->|Get money| B(Go shopping)
B --> C{Let me think}
C -->|One| D[Laptop]
C -->|Two| E[iPhone]
C -->|Three| F[Car]
```
The application can now search for a term via Ctrl+F. F3 highlights the next occurrence of the term and Shift+F3 highlights the previous one.
It is now possible to embed audio and video files.
Either via HTML (previous versions had a bug that prevented this):
<video controls width="500">
<source src="some-video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
</video>Or via Markdown syntax, just like images:
See this page of the Chromium project for supported formats.
- Minimum window size, introduced with 2.6.0, was too big for some users
- Inside the table-of-content area, the horizontal scrollbar was always visible and allowed to scroll when it shouldn't
The local development instance now stores its settings inside the project directory.
Since the introduction of the table of content feature, it was not possible to scroll via keyboard (arrow keys, page-up/-down) without clicking into the content first.
See issue #31
- The TOC used black as font color for dark mode. Now, the TOC font has the same color as the rest of the UI
- Symbols to expand and collapse TOC entries are improved and should look the same in different operating systems.
Other fixes:
- Printing of wide tables was not fixed in a satisfactory manner. See issue #26
The application can now display a Table of Content (TOC). The TOC is hidden by default. It can be displayed via entries in the "View" menu or by pressing Alt+C (Option+C on macOS) for a single document only or via Alt+Shift+C (Option+Shift+C on macOS) for all documents.
A bug regarding very wide tables as fixed. If a document was printed, wide tables could be cropped. See issue #26
The tools now supports embedding an image as Base64 inside a data URL.
Example:
It is now possible to choose whether an opened file shall be rendered as Markdown or just as plain text. Based on the file name ending, it can also be chosen to render all files of a type (i.e. with the same ending) as Markdown or not.
This is the first release that also contains a Mac package (DMG for ARM).
Note: there are some usability issues currently and the application is not much tested yet (or much used by the author in practice). Future releases will hopefully bring improvements in this regard.
Also, the package is not signed, so expect some hassles at installing.
The application renders now task lists. See issue #19 for details.
Bugfixes:
- Images, those file names include a hash sign
#were not displayed - Fixed link to release page in README
The context menu (right click) did not appear since the last version (2.3.0).
Certain Markdown rendering features are now configurable:
- Whether line breaks in the middle of a paragraph shall be treated
- Converting Emoticons to Emojis
- Typographic replacements
The encoding recognition could lead the application to crash at opening certain documents.
The tool now recognizes the encoding of a Markdown file automatically. The encoding can still be set manually, if the encoding was not recognized correctly.
The application now remembers the last window position for each last opened document.
The content size can be changed via Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-. Ctrl+0 sets the content to the default size. This setting is independently from the document, i.e. the setting is application wide.
Some changes in appearance (thanks to Loïs Bégué).
An about dialog was added (inspired by Loïs Bégué).
Improved accessibility of the main menu via keyboard (inspired by Loïs Bégué).
Bug fixes:
- Regression at handling of backslashes in document paths. Version 2.0.0 could not open documents that are on a Windows network share (with a path like
\\computer\share\path\to\file.md). - Markdown file recognition is now case insensitive (thanks to Loïs Bégué).
Links are now opened in the same window. If you want to open a link in a new window (previous default behavior), use the middle mouse button, i.e. pressing the mouse wheel.
See also issue #11
Support for additional Markdown features was added. See the README file for more details.
The app does now support a dark theme.
Non Markdown text files were opened in raw text view mode. Expected behavior is to open them embedded in the source area of a Markdown file and disable the raw text view menu item.
- Menu item File/Open works again (issue #10)
- URLs to local files inside of
<script>...</script>do now work (issue #9)
Some bugfixes by updating the dependencies
Additionally, when an external image is unblocked, the position is now preserved.
The Windows EXE files are now signed with self generated certificate in the hope that SmartScreen may whitelist the application one day.
- An MDView window can be closed now vie the Esc key
- Raw text view is now left via pressing Ctrl+U (was Escape before)
- Regression at reloading the opened file was fixed
Markdown Viewer does now support different file encodings (see issue #4). Additionally, the set encoding is remembered for each file (issue #5).
Some bug fixes (issue #3 and a regression).
Displayed content is now refreshed automatically when the file is modified.
Additionally, some bugfixes.
It is now possible to print the current document. A view for the raw Markdown text is also integrated.
Links that are formatted as inline code are now handled properly.
Additionally, a Linux AppImage package is also added with this release - though not tested yet.
- Font rendering is improved
- Broken (or blocked) images are more recognizable
- The text in the bar elements do not break visibly anymore
Links to local non Markdown files are now handled better. If the file is a binary file, it will be opened by the application associated in the operating system. Source code files are rendered with syntax highlighting now.
Additionally:
- Update of the Electron Framework
- The application title displays now the application version
There is now a bug regarding the display of blocked (and broken) images. This is caused by the current Electron framework. See Electron issue 14426.
Headers with links were not transformed properly for the anchor elements
Added a context menu that can:
- Copy the currently selected text
- Copy the link text under the mouse pointer
- Copy the link target of the link under the mouse pointer
The tool is now feature complete.
Clicking on file links did not work.
Content that would be loaded from the Internet is now blocked by default. It is possible to unblock this content if desired.
Additionally some bugfixes.
Links that lead to targets inside the document (starting with a hash "#") are now supported. As GitHub, headings are supported to be linked. A click on such link will open a new window where the document is positioned to the target.
Additionally, the content can now be refreshed by pressing F5.
There is now a status bar that shows information to certain elements while the mouse pointer is over them.
- Links: Shows the target URL
- Images: Shows the alternative text and the image URL
The tool handles links to local files and local images now properly. A links to a local file will be opened in a new window. A link to a website will be opened in the standard web browser.
Initial release of Markdown Viewer. Some features are missing yet. See README file for further information.