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LightPaper Changelog

What's new in LightPaper 1.4.2

Mar 21, 2017
  • Fixed a bug where the app would freeze for some users.

New in LightPaper 1.4.1 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Bug fixes.

New in LightPaper 1.4 (Jan 9, 2017)

  • FEATURES:
  • New unsaved files are restored automatically when closing the application without asking you to save first. If you close a tab, however, you'll be prompted to save it first if it is unsaved.
  • Added a new syntax highlighting theme - Solarized.
  • One click document open. Save yourself a click as you don't have to double click to open a document. Single click will temporarily open a document. To permanently open a document, double click like usual.
  • One click folder toggle. A single click will expand/ collapse a folder in the navigator.
  • LightPaper Mini - added a slider to change the width/height ratio of the mini popover window. This can be accessed from the preferences.
  • You can now sort sidebar items (except Folders) using different options. Right-click on one of the FAVORITES, SCRATCH NOTES, SHADOW NOTES headers for Sorting Options.
  • You can now use shortcuts to jump between editor and the sidebar. See View > Jump to Sidebar and View > Jump to Editor for available shortcuts.
  • You can now use CMD+ENTER to open a sidebar item instead of using your mouse and double clicking it.
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Added a "Close All Tabs" menu item
  • A document's base URL is always set to its parent folder by default
  • Editor outline now recognizes --- and === tags for headers as well
  • Syntax highlight now supports more languages out of the box including SQL
  • Scratch and Shadow notes are now restored as well when opening the app.
  • Scratch and Shadow notes are automatically saved when closing the app.
  • App will now remember your expanded folders from the previous session.
  • Changed the placements of both editor outline and preview outline
  • LightPaper now always remembers opened folder not just when restarting the app.
  • Don't autobullet if ENTER is done at the beginning of the line
  • When trying to open a folder, focus it instead if it is already opened
  • LightPaper now remembers the order of files when restoring them.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed a bug where margin would set to 0 for some Mac Sierra users
  • Fixed a bug where the app would crash on closing if there is at least one unsaved document
  • Fixed navigator jumpiness when opening a document
  • Fixed a bug where sometimes multiple copies of LightPaper mini would run
  • Fixed a bug where distraction free mode would show a white border when using a dark theme
  • Multiple copies of mini documents are opened instead of selecting the tab
  • Remove fixed header font size from default LightPaper themes
  • Clicking out of a pinned shadow note without hitting save doesn't save the note in some cases.
  • CMD+3 closes the external window if it is already open
  • CMD+S doesn't work for an untitled document
  • LightPaper Mini doesn't start for some users
  • Other few minor bug fixes

New in LightPaper 1.3.1 (Feb 21, 2016)

  • QUICK BUG FIXES:
  • LightPaper Mini wouldn't show up in the status bar for some users
  • An extra line is added when hitting enter twice inside a code block

New in LightPaper 1.3 (Feb 19, 2016)

  • FEATURES:
  • Multiple Folders - Sidebar now supports multiple folders. Add as many as you want or remove the ones you don’t want. LightPaper also remembers all the opened folders so you don’t have to.
  • LightPaper Mini: Added a preference to automatically insert shadow note’s source path or URL
  • Supports different ways of setting the base URL for a document. Very useful for rendering images.
  • Editor Outline Navigator - Quickly navigate between your headers or code blocks:
  • Two-way navigation for editor outline navigator - clicking a header navigates to corresponding preview header as well.
  • Preview Outline is rewritten from scratch - looks better, gives us code monkeys a lot of satisfaction, and supports two-way navigation as well
  • Added a top-level Export menu for quickly accessing exporting and copying features:
  • Select markdown text and copy it as rich formatted text including images
  • Select markdown text and copy them as HTML
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Fuzzy Search for Quick Open has been vastly improved. It’s now more accurate and speed is noticeably improved
  • LightPaper now uses an alternative mechanism for sending feedback
  • Real Preview: A default real preview site can be selected from within Real Preview preference
  • You can now rate LightPaper so that we know how much you love it. Just a formality, we know it’s always a 5 stars for you :)
  • Styles menu item is now renamed to more appropriate Document menu
  • Improved relative path rendering for images
  • Always render local images with full paths regardless of document’s base URL
  • Make auto scrolling sync setting persistent
  • Added a preference to allow/disallow adding an untitled document automatically
  • Added a preference to turn off auto expanding a folder when adding it to sidebar
  • Update the title of an already opened document’s tab when the document is renamed
  • Auto bulleting for nested lists
  • PNGs and JPEGs are not filtered out by default from the folder navigator
  • Lots of other minor improvements
  • LightPaper now re-renders your document when you make any changes to your sidebar’s root folder(s). This makes it to render your new/modified images without having to restart LightPaper, for an example.
  • LightPaper Mini:
  • Save mini documents when app gets inactive
  • ⌘+S now continues to save a scratch or shadow note instead of persisting it to a file. You can save it to a file using File>Save to File... menu item or using ⌘+⌥+S key.
  • Shadow Notes now by default selects the active tab for both Chrome and Safari.
  • Sync open notes between LightPaper and LightPaper Mini
  • Don’t collapse expanded shadow notes when switching tabs or deleting a note
  • Document/ File support for Microsoft Office documents are now available from our GitHub repo. Thanks to @chooklotto
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Cannot select a document if it is hidden in the overflow tabs menu (when there are too many tabs open)
  • Type through autopair character if it is typed i.e. no more []] or ())
  • Other few minor bug fixes
  • Extra whitespace breaks Jekyll FrontMatter
  • Multiple copies of LightPaper Mini is open in some cases
  • Fixed a possible memory leak
  • Cursor color is invisible when switching from Solarized Light theme to LightPaper Dark
  • App crashes when hitting enter on quick search when there are no results
  • Cursor and text jump when opening a document
  • Few other minor bug fixes

New in LightPaper 1.2.2 (Jan 21, 2016)

  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • ESCAPE key now closes LightPaper Mini window
  • Improved LightPaper Light and LightPaper Dark styles to support nested lists
  • Non-supported files from the sidebar are now opened with the default app
  • Added a help button for Script Assets
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue with code signing. It should now be signed properly.
  • Fixed re-saving a Shadow note overwrites its title
  • Fixed Preferences window labels are cut off
  • Fixed Preferences window size such that all the preferences are always visible

New in LightPaper 1.2.1 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • Fixed screen jumpiness in Distraction Free Mode for some documents. Thanks @macosxguru
  • Fixed a bug where it would add an extra whitespace accented characters for some users. Thanks @macosxguru
  • Fixed a crash when closing the app for some users.

New in LightPaper 1.2 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • FEATURES ✨:
  • LightPaper Mini - Sits in your system menu bar to allow you to take quick notes Learn more...
  • Shadow Notes - Take notes for anything on your computer - an app, a folder, a file, a browser, URLs within browsers etc. Learn more...
  • Script Assets - Add any local or remote JavaScript or CSS files/ libraries like Mermaid for an example. Learn more...
  • Custom CSS - Add custom global CSS styles for all your documents.
  • Scripting Support - LightPaper now supports basic scripting so that you can automate things using either AppleScript or JavaScript.
  • 🌈 New Themes - Comes bundled with two new LightPaper themes - LightPaper Light and LightPaper Dark for both the preview and the editor.
  • 💄 New Branding - New year 🎉, New icons, New site: http://lightpaper.42squares.in/
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • LightPaper now restores last opened folder.
  • PDF can now be exported even when the preview is collapsed
  • Auto Pair $ (dollar) sign - Really helpful if you do a lot of MathJAX typing. Enable it first from Preferences...>Editor
  • LightPaper is now signed using Apple Developer ID 🍎.
  • MultiMarkdown output now support syntax highlighting using PrismJS.
  • 🚀 Overall performance improvement 🚀
  • Lot of emojis in release notes
  • B🐞G FIXES:
  • Fixed jumping issue when hitting enter key in bullet mode
  • Fixed some weird issues when typing asterisks
  • Fixed drag-and-drop folder not opening the folder
  • Fixed a bug where it wouldn't allow to open a folder twice
  • Removed ellipses (...) from Save menu title if a document is not an untitled one
  • Type through autopair character if it is typed i.e. no more []] or ())
  • Fixed a bug where moving a tab item would not update the preview
  • Fixed a bug where a code blocks wouldn't get highlighted for new documents
  • Fixed a bug where a quotes wouldn't autopair in the middle of a sentence
  • Fix a bug where External Preview wouldn't render properly after switching from Real Preview
  • Fixed couple of memory leaks
  • Fixed crashes for some users
  • Few other minor bugs and random crashes 🐛 💥

New in LightPaper 1.1.4 (Dec 20, 2015)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Accessing preferences crashes for some users
  • Random crash when inserting text for some users
  • Reveal in Sidebar stops working after doing it for couple of files

New in LightPaper 1.1.1 (Dec 9, 2015)

  • FEATURES:
  • Real Preview - See how your post would look like on a website when you publish it ... without actually publishing it. Learn more...
  • Favorites - Favorite a file or a folder and have it always accessible from the sidebar
  • Smart Drag and Drop Support - Just drag and drop your images or a link, and LightPaper will add the correct markdown for you. Learn more...
  • Individual Styles - Give each document and its corresponding preview a style of its own. Access it from Styles menu
  • What's new - Know the latest and greatest features & improvements we have made in LightPaper from with in the app. Access it from Help>What is New in this Version? menu item
  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Editor has got a lots of cool new improvements - smarter auto pairing of braces and quotes, use spaces for tabs, duplicate line(s), move line(s) up or down etc
  • HTML comments within markdown are now parsed as comments in the output
  • Jekyll table output is now supported in MultiMarkdown mode as well
  • About 30% of the code has been rewritten using the latest Swift programming language. This makes us very happy :)
  • Word counting algorithm as been optimized and is only calculated when needed
  • Improves memory and CPU consumption
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixes a bug where it would crash for some users while using GitHub Flavored Markdown
  • Fixes a bug where the Jekyll table wouldn't be hidden
  • Fixes auto-bulleting for triple dashes (---)
  • Fixes some more memory leaks

New in LightPaper 1.0 (Nov 16, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • Complete GitHub Flavored Markdown support - this is ON by default and can be turned off (to use MultiMarkdown instead)
  • Support for GitHub style Task List including auto-bulleting for tasks
  • Live Preview in an external window - awesome for presentation or if you have a multi-monitor setup
  • Better support for Jekyll sites - renders front matter in a table which could be hidden with a click
  • Set any folder as a base folder - you can now render local images from any folder
  • Zoom In/Zoom Out for both editor and external preview using ⌘+ and ⌘-
  • Full Drag-and-Drop support - you can drop multiple files or folders
  • Tear-off tab to create a new window
  • New and exclusive LightPaper Dracula Theme for the editor
  • New and exclusive LightPaper theme for the editor - this is now the default style
  • New GitHub theme for preview - this is now the default style
  • New icon for Markdown documents
  • A lot online resources are added under Help menu
  • Allow to set PDF margins for PDF export
  • Allow to set line height and paragraph spacing
  • Select font family and font face of your choice
  • Allow to reload themes for both the editor and the preview without restarting the app
  • New app icons
  • You can now send us your feedback using a Feedback window
  • Improvements:
  • New and better looking tabs
  • Updated to the latest Prism Javascript and CSS files
  • High resolution retina images
  • Compatible with OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan
  • Use ⇧⌘[ and ⇧⌘] to navigate between tabs instead of ⌥⌘ ← and ⌥⌘ →
  • More accurate words count - based on output instead of input
  • Auto-save option can now be disabled from the Preferences window
  • Preview Outline feature can now be disabled from the Preferences window
  • Fuzzy search algorithm is more correct and the performance has improved
  • Improved Preferences window
  • Vastly improved performance
  • Lots of other minor improvements
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Cannot update the app using Check for Updates... menu
  • Preview cannot render MathJax
  • Quick Open feature crashes on Yosemite and El Capitan
  • App sometimes crashes when closing the last window
  • A file cannot be opened after opening and closing it couple of times
  • Lots of memory leak fixes
  • Few links point to 404 pages
  • Lots of other minor bug fixes

New in LightPaper 0.9 (Jun 10, 2014)

  • Support for syntax highlighting in preview powered by prismjs.
  • Support for Math preview rendering powered by MathJAX.
  • Auto save edited documents every 30 seconds.
  • Header outline navigator – navigate preview quickly and easily by clicking links on a popover window.
  • Allow loading of local images.
  • Folder navigator allows renaming of files and folders inline.
  • Spelling check goodness: auto spelling check, a shortcut for quickly toggling spell check (⌥⌘;), and persistent spell check setting.
  • You can now use system fonts.
  • Remove Jekyll Front-matter from the preview.
  • Subscribe to get the latest alpha updates and help us test out the new features, improvements, and fixes.
  • Improved highlighting latency – from 1 second down to 50 milliseconds.
  • Better support for smaller screens.
  • Installer is about 50% lighter.
  • Lots of other improvements and bug fixes.

New in LightPaper 0.8.7 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Header outline navigator – navigate preview quickly and easily by clicking links on a popover window
  • Parse out Jekyll Front-matter
  • Subscribe to get the latest alpha updates
  • Auto Scrolling Sync between the editor and the preview
  • Select system fonts

New in LightPaper 0.7 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Most Requested Feature: Navigator synchronization with file system

New in LightPaper 0.6 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Tab switcher for easy switching between opened documents.
  • Shortcuts for indenting left and right.
  • Create a table without a header.

New in LightPaper 0.5 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Auto bulleting for both ordered and unordered lists.
  • Smart autocompletion and auto-insert for braces and quotes; like {, (, [, ", ', ` etc
  • Support for inline footnote support.
  • Hide the editor view by dragging the splitter all the way to left.

New in LightPaper 0.4 (Apr 10, 2014)

  • Support for Fenced Code Blocks.
  • Readjust split ratio after fullscreen toggle.