View 0.2.8

PDF notes open again and are shown in a side panel.

• Notes saved in a PDF, by View or another app, can be opened, edited, moved and deleted again; before, only their icon showed.
• Notes in a side panel: the page shows a small note icon, and each note's text appears on a card to the right with its author and time. Click a card to edit it.
• Opening a file that is already open switches to its tab instead of opening a second copy.
• The Overwrite dialog has a "Don't ask again" option; turn the question back on in Preferences.
• Draw and Sketch are one tool: draw freely, or hold still at the end of a stroke to make a shape.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.7

Ctrl+S saves again, and two files can be shown side by side.

• Ctrl+S saves text and Markdown files again. Since files opened as tabs (0.2.5), Ctrl+S in a text or Markdown file did nothing; the other keyboard shortcuts inside a tab are fixed with it.
• Two files side by side: right-click a tab and choose Open in Split View. Move to Other Side moves a tab across; when one side runs out of tabs the window goes back to a single pane.
• Sync Scrolling for the Markdown Split view, in the ⋮ menu: scrolling the source or the preview keeps the other side on the same heading or paragraph. On by default.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.6

The Snap Store package is updated again.

• The 0.2.5 snap didn't build, so this release brings 0.2.5's tabs, in-place PDF form filling and PDF reload to the Snap Store. Nothing else changes.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.5

Files open as tabs, and PDF forms can be filled in place.

• Opening files adds a tab to the current window instead of a new window each time; the tab bar appears only with two or more tabs. Right-click a tab for Move to New Window, Close Tab and Close Other Tabs, or drag a tab out of the window. Ctrl+W closes the tab, Ctrl+T opens a new one, Ctrl+Tab switches. Turn off "Open files in new tabs" in Preferences to get a window per file again.
• PDF forms: text fields are typed into right on the page; Tab / Shift+Tab move to the next / previous field.
• A PDF reloads when its file changes on disk.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.4

Crop images, and touchpad signing fixed on haptic touchpads.

• Image viewer: a Crop tool (Ctrl+K) with handles, aspect ratio presets and undo; animated GIF and WebP are cropped on every frame.
• Markup and Sign sit side by side in the header of the image and PDF viewers, and Markup has its own highlighter icon.
• New Signature: click the box or press Space to sign on the touchpad; the Start button is gone.
• Touchpad signing works on the haptic touchpad of the ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 (Sensel), where every stroke used to end up as a dot in the top-left corner.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.3

Files open much faster, and a high-quality translation model.

• View keeps running in the system tray when its last window is closed, so the next file opens in about a second instead of starting View again. Quit from the tray or with Ctrl+Q; Preferences can turn this off.
• Faster start in the Snap.
• Translation: a high-quality model (Hy-MT2 1.8B) that runs on the GPU, downloaded on first use.
• Windows: the high-quality model also starts on PCs with an old Visual C++ runtime.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.2

A fix for translated Chinese, Japanese and Korean text on Windows.

• Windows: translated Chinese, Japanese and Korean text is shown in one font, so the characters line up instead of mixing styles and heights.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.1

Fixes for translation, Markdown and the Windows uninstaller.

• Translated Chinese, Japanese and Korean text uses the right fonts, so the characters line up instead of mixing styles and heights.
• Markdown tables get their natural column widths; Chinese cells no longer wrap after every character. Code blocks with blank lines stay in one box, and task lists show only the check box.
• The ⋮ menu of text and Markdown files works again (Translate Document, Wrap Lines, Save As), as does Save Frame in the video player.
• Two windows downloading the same language pack no longer break each other's download.
• Windows: uninstalling while View is open now closes it first, so no files are left behind.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.2.0

Offline translation, a DXF viewer, Markdown preview, faster startup, and a fixed Windows installer.

• Translation that stays on your computer: translate a selection in a card you can move aside, or a whole document side by side (PDF pages, Markdown with its structure kept, text, code comments and strings, CSV tables). The language is detected automatically; the engine and language packs are optional downloads.
• DXF drawings (2D CAD): layers, zoom and pan, dark-mode colours, Get Info and export to PDF, SVG or PNG. Loosely written DXF files from CATIA or scripts open too.
• Markdown files show a rendered preview, with a Source / Split / Preview switch that updates as you edit.
• Faster startup: images open without loading the heavy libraries, and the update check waits until the window is shown.
• Windows: updating from 0.1.6–0.1.9 could stop right after Setup started, because the background screenshot watcher kept View's files open. Setup now stops it first. If you are on one of those versions and the update stops, end the background "View" process in Task Manager and run Setup again.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.

View 0.1.9

Interface translation: Simplified Chinese, with a Language choice in Preferences.

• The interface is translated into Simplified Chinese. View follows the system language by default; Preferences → Language picks one explicitly (it applies the next time View starts).
• Thanks to azkuang (@azkuang on GitHub) for the translation framework and the Simplified Chinese catalog.

Downloads: .deb (Ubuntu 25.10+/26.04, Debian 13), .snap, Windows installer and portable zip, Chrome extension (view-chrome-*.zip). Verify with SHA256SUMS. Older versions are on the Releases page.