LivePDFviewer
Author: B. Kerautret
Contact: livepdfviewerdev@gmail.com
Twitter: 
@LivePDFviewer
Version: 1.8.1
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)).
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| (a) Zoom example | (b) Live cam integration | (c) Spell check |
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| (d) Annotations example | (e) Full dark mode | (f) Launcher with pdf bookmark |
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| (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 1.8.1 (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.