LivePDFviewer

Author: B. Kerautret

Contact: livepdfviewerdev@gmail.com

Twitter: @LivePDFviewer

Version: 1.8.2

Overview

This program allows to fill the limitations of the Preview.app of MacOs with the following improvements:

• Allows refreshing the display of a pdf document keeping the exact initial position.
• The previous version can be displayed for comparisons.
• Main changes between updated version and previous one can be highlighted.
• The windows focus can be enabled and disabled after a pdf refresh event.
• A full night mode with PDF display is available (image (e)).

In complement it adds the others features:

• Special popup zoom on images by extracting the source image in the pdf code (see image (a) below).
• LiveCam display to make presentation with presenter view (image (b)).
• Spell check (image (c)) and long sentence detection (image (h)).
• Annotations import and export with export in txt format useful to address reviews and special edition frame.
• Bookmark of PDF files available from status bar menu (image (f)) and main document windows.
• Exporting/copy images embedded in the pdf as PNG files.
• Special raw copy from selection without character style formatting.
• Display the table of contents when exits (image (i)).

(a) Zoom example	(b) Live cam integration	(c) Spell check
(d) Annotations example	(e) Full dark mode	(f) Launcher with pdf bookmark
(g) Preview display of link with reference preview.	(h) Large sentence detection in spell check mode.	(i) Table of contents preview.

Special thanks

Special thanks to people helping and motivate to diffuse this software:

• Audrey Bichet for the design of nice Logo.
• David Coeurjolly and Jonathan Weber for the feedback and continue tests.
• Christian Wolf for the suggestion to add the reference previous display.

Thanks also to the open source library helping to realize LivePDFViewer:

• FileWatcher: to detect file change: https://github.com/eonist/FileWatcher
• MacToggle : to include toggle switch before MacOS 10.14: https://github.com/RichAppz/MacToggle
• HotKey: to handle simple shortcut: https://github.com/soffes/HotKey

Changelog:

Version 1.8.2 (June 23 2024)

• Fix UX when clicking on link (link preview was appearing after click).
• Add option to set dark mode with black instead gray level.
• Fix issue from spell check.
• Add option to copy with no format and Capitalize letters and newline removal.
• Fix multiple reference detection from the default regular expression.

Version 1.8.1 (March 23 2024)

• Fix issue on TOC while refocus and reload.
• Increase zoom image resolution.

Version 1.8 (February 29 2024)

• New table of content display.
• New information display from text selection (number of characters and words) (shortcut CMD-I on selection).
• Possibility to increase zoom scale on images (CTRL and image click).
• Sharing button is now on the right.
• Fix on mouse focus on multiple windows.
• Fix issue on bookmark filter.
• Fix issue on image opening (on MacOS 14.3).

Version 1.7 (July 03 2023)

• Add settings to disable links preview.
• Fixed launcher preview that could freeze in certain situations after reading an unreadable pdf file.
• Fix deprecated unarchiver of annotations files.
• New feature to automatically link bibliographic references to reference section.
• Display source link area when display link preview (with colors border).
• Live update on change of maximal sentence size parameter from preference panel.
• Handle visualisation of images as single document (eps, svg, png, jpg, tiff, pgm, pnm, gif). It display a bitmap representation (useful for eps that is no more supported in MacOS Preview).
• Get user statistics #refresh/#Zoom/#Preview inside about panel.
• Fix issue of too large sentence detection that makes crash.

Version 1.6 (December 29 2022)

• Keyboard shortcut improvements: new shortcuts to avoid unwanted window records.
• Use more standard shortcuts like Preview.app.

Version 1.5 (May 29, 2022)

• Improve reference preview using full page instead cropped area. Useful to move around target frame.
• Special raw copy from selection without character style formatting.
• New option in preference to open new document by default in dark mode.
• Add the possibility to add link as annotations, useful to add missing links in a document (from word exported in pdf).
• Fix launcher loop display that could sometime appear on dual screens.
• Fix spell highlight that disappears after a search.
• Fix annotation closing when clicking on spell interface.

Version 1.4 (January 29, 2022)

• Fix few typos in the preferences (Thanks @dcoeurjo).
• Fix Label not centered in preferences.
• Implement PasteBoard with file image copy and copy image data.
• Add persistant mode for page display options for each file instance.
• Cache launcher images for fastest display.

Version 1.3 (June 26, 2021)

• Improve dark mode note display.
• Fix hightlighted annotation that could be empty in some situations.
• Add 1sec delay before displaying reference preview.
• Add an option to save embedded image as png.
• Fix an issue of potential broken zoom when using different image types on same page.
• Fix limited history from opening pdf file from Finder.
• Fix an issue where image zoom was not working on some areas.
• Fix the keymap for size fitting (issue #72) and fix the fit to height key.
• Avoid spell check in links and fix the spellcheck issues display spell when previewing the pdf.

Version 1.2.3 (April 23, 2021)

• New feature with the detection of too large sentence in the text.
• Minor fix for the mouse shape on links and bug fix.

Version 1.2.2 (April 19, 2021)

• Minor fix to display reference that could be blank in some situations.

Version 1.2.1 (April 17, 2021)

• Preview reference links are now based on pdf view instead bitmap image. It allows to select text from the preview panel.
• Small fix on list of LauncherMenu.

Version 1.2 (April 3, 2021)

• New display for preview reference links.
• Fix potential crash on loading zoomed images.
• Better UX from open file of LauncherMenu.

Version 1.1 (February 28, 2021)

• Dark mode for pdf display with possibility to force it.
• Add bookmarked pdf filter in launcher.
• New option to have and popup LauncherMenu instead a floating menu.
• Fix bad recorded screen when recording on a second screen.
• Reduce size of launcher image (memory reduced /5).

Version 1.0 (24 January, 2021)

• Initial version

Source code:

Source code coming soon on GitHub.