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mdVü 1.0.2 — Printing fix; settings page, installer with documentation Latest

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m3repo released this 14 Nov 11:30

v1.0.2

b88a7ee

This release fixes printing on printers with a non-printable margin: the text was shifted against the page and could be cut off at the edge. It also removes a stray scrollbar in the title menu bar at 150 % scaling and above. Everything else is as in 1.0.1.

Downloads — all code-signed:

mdvu-1.0.2-setup.exe — installs for your Windows user only, without admin rights, with a Start menu entry, the documentation and samples (can be unticked) and, if you like, the .md file association. Installing over 1.0.x updates in place. Uninstall under Settings → Apps.
mdvu.exe — the program on its own: replace the previous one, settings are kept.
mdvu-1.0.2-portable.zip — unpack anywhere; settings stay in that folder.

Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  F9CF339962A4785A1B3320C12E98145814E562F915221FAE290820F31C117045  mdvu.exe
SHA-256  0FDA25F12967D26303F83A3365E294B553FA747A79384F91C5038E29DA6C7E7A  mdvu-1.0.2-setup.exe
SHA-256  62F7E385734DB27810450C3F9AB0B42E6CAB2A49070177861DE31AB2B6FE63FB  mdvu-1.0.2-portable.zip

VirusTotal reports: mdvu.exe · mdvu-1.0.2-setup.exe

New in 1.0

Settings page: Help → Settings, the gear in the toolbar or Ctrl+,. Every setting with a short explanation, grouped by topic; changes apply right away, ↺ restores the default. A filter field keeps only the matching settings, and the whole page works with the keyboard. See Settings.
Installer without admin rights, with a Start menu entry, the optional .md file association and — since 1.0.1 — the documentation and sample files. See Installation.
Copy button on code blocks, TOML frontmatter, search hits in the print preview, tooltips in the colours of the theme, and the search strip buttons can be read out by screen readers.
All strips are drawn by mdVü itself — no more flicker when the window is resized.

Settings moved to settings.yaml with new key names in 1.0; details in the 1.0.0 release and the changelog.

Fixed in 1.0.2

Printing: on printers with a non-printable margin the text was shifted against the page (about 3 mm on an HP inkjet), so text near the edge could be cut off. The PDF export was not affected.
Title menu bar at 150 % scaling and above: a light scrollbar appeared next to the window buttons. The spacing of the menu entries now grows with the scaling, like the font.

Assets 5

mdVü 1.0.1 — Documentation and samples in the installer; settings page, out of beta

m3repo released this 28 Oct 16:48

v1.0.1

2f4c1fd

The installer now brings the documentation and the sample files along: after installing, the Start menu entry mdVü Documentation opens them in mdVü — README, manual, Markdown and CSS reference, and samples to try right away. The program itself is unchanged from 1.0.0.

Downloads — all code-signed:

mdvu-1.0.1-setup.exe — installs for your Windows user only, without admin rights, with a Start menu entry, the documentation and samples (can be unticked) and, if you like, the .md file association. Uninstall under Settings → Apps.
mdvu.exe — the program on its own: replace the previous one, settings are kept.
mdvu-1.0.1-portable.zip — unpack anywhere; settings stay in that folder.

Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  9B758D16A2C578058499A06811610B73717A1D6AF0B1AEE425E9A1DBDB0CD9D2  mdvu.exe
SHA-256  0376F29A404D90D0E012D0D8FC544DAB7907D7A1E7E19E8DBEA85D158CA05F3A  mdvu-1.0.1-setup.exe
SHA-256  615952B581442E34386BB430B7B3E7DCE92B7BB4E17D08C40BAB10D09E062B4E  mdvu-1.0.1-portable.zip

VirusTotal reports: mdvu.exe · mdvu-1.0.1-setup.exe

Added in 1.0.1

Documentation and samples come with the installer: unless you untick it, the setup puts this documentation and the sample files into the subfolder Documentation of the program folder. The Start menu entry mdVü Documentation opens them in mdVü. They are refreshed with every update and removed on uninstall. See Installation.

New in 1.0

Settings page: Help → Settings, the gear in the toolbar or Ctrl+,. Every setting with a short explanation, grouped by topic, rarely needed ones under Advanced; changes apply right away, ↺ restores the default. A filter field at the top keeps only the matching settings (name, explanation, key and the choices of a list). With the keyboard, ↓ leads into the list, the arrow keys go from setting to setting, Enter or Tab into its controls and Enter/Esc back; the status bar shows where you are (FILTER, SETTING 3/27, EDIT). In the filter, Esc clears the text first, then closes the page. See Settings.
Installer: mdvu-1.0.0-setup.exe installs for your Windows user only, without admin rights, with a Start menu entry and — if you like — the .md file association; uninstalling under Settings → Apps removes the association again. The single mdvu.exe and the portable ZIP stay available. mdvu.exe /register and /unregister do the file association from the command line. See Installation.
Copy button on code blocks: move the mouse over a code block and a button in its corner copies the code.
TOML frontmatter (+++ … +++, as in Hugo and Zola) is recognised like YAML frontmatter — shown, collapsed or hidden, and left out of the folder preview.
Search hits in the print preview: ↓ or another Enter in the search field lets the arrow keys step through the hits; the status bar shows HIT 3/12.
Names instead of addresses: the path bar and the history menu show pages like Settings, Manual or Search in files by name.
Tooltips in the colours of the theme, dark in dark mode.
Screen readers: the buttons of the search strip can be read out (UI Automation).

Changes and fixes of 1.0 — settings moved to settings.yaml with new key names, all strips drawn by mdVü, search as a mode and more — are listed in the 1.0.0 release and the changelog.

Assets 5

mdVü 1.0.0 — Settings page, installer, out of beta

m3repo released this 28 Oct 11:03

v1.0.0

8be3f9d

mdVü leaves beta. This release brings a settings page (Ctrl+,) with a filter and full keyboard control, an installer that needs no admin rights, a copy button on code blocks, TOML frontmatter, and a lot of polish — all strips are now drawn by mdVü itself, so nothing flickers when you resize the window.

Downloads — all code-signed:

mdvu-1.0.0-setup.exe — installs for your Windows user only, without admin rights, with a Start menu entry and, if you like, the .md file association. Uninstall under Settings → Apps.
mdvu.exe — the program on its own: replace the previous one, settings are kept.
mdvu-1.0.0-portable.zip — unpack anywhere; settings stay in that folder.

Settings move from settings.ini to settings.yaml with new key names; an existing settings.ini is taken over automatically on the first start. Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  36531D9B67DB15073B16C0923C7AF94A4217DD298575D4085F580ABA619B732D  mdvu.exe
SHA-256  2AF6AFE09C870A4450F75D69ADB860C63C79A98893D6EDE2CEEBE744F2A28747  mdvu-1.0.0-setup.exe
SHA-256  4F2DDA94E78DF40CFD9BA10D092BE47A8C967506696AF9E0A1E0A9AF4B1FFE48  mdvu-1.0.0-portable.zip

VirusTotal reports: mdvu.exe · mdvu-1.0.0-setup.exe

New in 1.0

Settings page: Help → Settings, the gear in the toolbar or Ctrl+,. Every setting with a short explanation, grouped by topic, rarely needed ones under Advanced; changes apply right away, ↺ restores the default. A filter field at the top keeps only the matching settings (name, explanation, key and the choices of a list). With the keyboard, ↓ leads into the list, the arrow keys go from setting to setting, Enter or Tab into its controls and Enter/Esc back; the status bar shows where you are (FILTER, SETTING 3/27, EDIT). In the filter, Esc clears the text first, then closes the page. See Settings.
Installer: mdvu-1.0.0-setup.exe installs for your Windows user only, without admin rights, with a Start menu entry and — if you like — the .md file association; uninstalling under Settings → Apps removes the association again. The single mdvu.exe and the portable ZIP stay available. mdvu.exe /register and /unregister do the file association from the command line. See Installation.
Copy button on code blocks: move the mouse over a code block and a button in its corner copies the code.
TOML frontmatter (+++ … +++, as in Hugo and Zola) is recognised like YAML frontmatter — shown, collapsed or hidden, and left out of the folder preview.
Search hits in the print preview: ↓ or another Enter in the search field lets the arrow keys step through the hits; the status bar shows HIT 3/12.
Names instead of addresses: the path bar and the history menu show pages like Settings, Manual or Search in files by name.
Tooltips in the colours of the theme, dark in dark mode.
Screen readers: the buttons of the search strip can be read out (UI Automation).

Changed

Settings are now kept in settings.yaml and state.yaml instead of settings.ini — with a short description above every value, only values that differ from the default, and edits by hand are kept even while mdVü runs. Changes apply at once, in all windows. An existing settings.ini is taken over on the first start and renamed to settings.ini.bak. Keys have new names, grouped like the settings page: doc/… is now document/…, perf/… is performance/…, ui/theme and ui/mode are appearance/theme and appearance/mode, ui/startPage is start/page; the full list is in the manual.
All strips are drawn by mdVü itself — search, search in files, quick open, page setup. No more flicker when the window is resized.
Search is a mode: Esc in the document or on a button of a search strip goes back to the search field first; Esc in the field closes the strip.
The print strip belongs to the preview: closing it (×, Esc) closes the preview, and Esc in the preview does the same.
Window title shows the file or folder name only — the icon already names the program, and taskbar previews and Alt+Tab have little room.
The load limit of 50 MB per document can no longer be changed.
No more beta: the beta section of the license is gone.

Fixed

mdVü could end with a series of error messages after the theme or dark mode had been switched several times.
Pressing Enter in a text field of the settings no longer shows “Unknown URL” in the status bar.

Assets 5

mdVü 0.21.0 — Quick open, search language, emoji cache

m3repo released this 20 Oct 10:11

v0.21.0

d5e11e3

This update brings Quick open — Ctrl+O, type part of a name or alias, Enter — and a real search language for Search in files: AND/OR/NOT, phrases, tags, file names, dates, sizes and frontmatter properties, in the syntax you know from Obsidian and GitHub. Colour emoji are now cached on disk, and emoji in a PDF can be copied and found again.

Download mdvu.exe below and replace the previous one; settings are kept. Or take mdvu-0.21.0-portable.zip: unpack it anywhere, and settings stay in that folder. Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  701D33EEEF634092E6DFF5294470F237F2408F8B339C2350AF9B99AF005C8E0C  mdvu.exe
SHA-256  06F213C7F2F0177E95AAA70D825347A5456F04D1DED38BAC89DB1A54EDF17FCA  mdvu-0.21.0-portable.zip

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/701d33eeef634092e6dff5294470f237f2408f8b339c2350af9b99af005c8e0c

New in 0.21

Quick open (Ctrl+O), like Obsidian's quick switcher: a strip appears below the path bar; type part of a file name, of an alias (aliases in the frontmatter) or of a folder name, and the matches appear in a list below — best first, the folder on the right. ↓ moves into the list, Enter opens (from the input field: the first match), Esc steps back. Several words must all match; if nothing matches the name, mdVü tries the folder names and finally the letters in order (mdrd finds mdvu-readme). With the field empty, the list shows the files you opened last. A folder (📁) opens right in the list — its subfolders and files, typing searches inside it, Backspace goes one level up; with quickOpen/folder = open it shows the folder page instead. The file dialog moved to Ctrl+Shift+O. See Opening a file.
Press the key again to switch the area: Quick open and Search in files start with the place of the current document — its vault, otherwise its repository, otherwise the folder shown in the folder view. If you have favorites, a second Ctrl+O or Ctrl+Shift+F switches to all favorites, the next one back; the button in the strip shows where you are.
Search language for Search in files: invoice OR reminder, invoice -draft, (a OR b) c, "open items", /regex/, #todo, file:readme, path:2026, content:…, line:( … ) and section:( … ) for words in the same line or section, modified:>=-7d, created:2026-10, size:>1mb, frontmatter properties in brackets ([status:draft], [prio>=2], [client.name:miller]), and scope: to search elsewhere (scope:#tag, scope:repo …). Without a word you get a plain list of matching files. Mistakes are reported in the status bar. See Search syntax.
Emoji cache on disk: colour emoji are drawn once and kept in a small cache file, so documents full of emoji appear faster from the second start on. Setting: perf/emojiDiskCacheMB (default 16, 0 = off). The performance page shows the time spent on emoji.
Emoji in PDFs can now be copied and searched in the PDF viewer (Microsoft Edge still turns them into placeholders when copying — an Edge bug), and fonts from font collections (.ttc, such as some CJK fonts) are embedded correctly.
Diagnostics page: the folders listed there open in Explorer with a click (after a confirmation), and the cache folder is listed as well.

Changed

Search in files offers two areas in the strip — the place of the document and all favorites — instead of a list of every vault, repository, folder and tag. Tag areas and the others are reached with scope: in the search text; links to earlier result lists keep working.
Ctrl+click in the folder view no longer opens a new window — it is kept free for selecting several entries later. The middle mouse button still does it there, and Ctrl+click on a link in a document as well.

Fixed

The area button of an open search strip now follows when you choose another folder or open a document in another vault.

Assets 4

mdVü 0.20.0 — Tags, several windows, portable ZIP

m3repo released this 17 Oct 13:12

v0.20.0

55023d5

This update brings tags — your own on files and folders, without changing a single file, together with the tags in your notes' frontmatter. mdVü now opens several windows, hands files from Explorer to the window that already shows their vault, and comes as a portable ZIP that leaves nothing in your profile or registry. 0.19 was not published; its changes are part of this release.

Download mdvu.exe below and replace the previous one; settings are kept. Or take mdvu-0.20.0-portable.zip: unpack it anywhere, and settings stay in that folder. Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  DB0627698C6F4706EFDCE590170B897DBC40808F4FC543DB1C1D0BC8916B5256  mdvu.exe
SHA-256  3AE9FBD0FFFAA9033E6D74D89B5A844646B77D85EBB210077A53406BFEA8450A  mdvu-0.20.0-portable.zip

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/db0627698c6f4706efdce590170b897dbc40808f4fc543db1c1d0bc8916b5256

New in 0.20

Tags: give files and folders your own tags — without changing a single file: mdVü keeps them in tags.yaml next to its settings, so a Git repository or someone else's vault stays untouched. Right-click a file or folder (in the folder view, on the path in the status bar or in the open document) and choose Tags…. A tag on a folder applies to everything below it. Tags from a document's frontmatter (tags:) count as well — one set of tags. A tag line at the top of the document lists them, #3 in the status bar shows how many there are, File → Show tags lists all tags with their places, and Search in files searches one tag's places at once or narrows any search with tag:name. See Tags.
Zoom of the print preview: while the preview is showing, the zoom item in the status bar belongs to it — Fit page (the default), Fit width or a fixed percentage; both fit settings follow the window size. Setting: print/previewZoom.
Several windows: File → New window (Ctrl+N), Open in new window in the menu of a file or folder, Ctrl+click or middle click on a link or in the folder view. Each window keeps its own folder view, history and search; recent files and favorites are shared, and the program ends with the last window.
Files go to the running window: with mdVü already open, a file or folder opened from Explorer or the command line shows up in that window when it belongs to the vault, repository or folder shown there — no second window, and the caches are already warm. Files outside any vault or repository share one window, everything else opens a new window in the same program. Settings: open/inOpenVault, open/inShownFolder, open/loose, open/other.
Portable mode: an empty settings.ini next to mdvu.exe keeps settings, favorites, user.css and the license acceptance in the program folder — nothing goes to the user profile or the registry. The license acceptance is tied to the computer and Windows user, so a copied settings.ini does not carry it over. Registering as Markdown default is not available in this mode. Releases come with a ready-made mdvu-<version>-portable.zip. See Portable use.
Regular expressions in search: the .* switch of the search strips now works (it had no effect before), and Find in files has it as well.

Changed

HTML and XML in code blocks (html, xml, svg …) are coloured by mdVü's own HTML/XML reader; <script> and <style> inside HTML are coloured as JavaScript and CSS, SVG inside HTML as XML.
Print strip in a narrow window: the printer list gets narrower first, then Printer setup…, PDF… and Print… move into a menu behind ».
The window size is no longer shown in the status bar. It was meant as a help for screenshots; the setting ui/footerWindowSize turns it back on.
Temporary files in one place: copied pictures and Read in browser now use a single folder %TEMP%\{mdvu.exe}; Help → Diagnostics shows it.

Fixed

Files saved with a byte order mark (UTF-8 with BOM) showed their frontmatter as plain text; Find in files also missed such frontmatter. Broken since 0.12.
The links on the start page to the manual and to the list of languages were refused with “Link denied”.
A settings.ini locked by another program (a sync tool, a virus scanner) no longer stops mdVü with an error; mdVü tries again with the next change and when it closes.

The full list is in the changelog.

Assets 4

mdVü 0.18.0 — HTML to Markdown (preview), frontmatter toggle, message history

m3repo released this 12 Oct 17:28

v0.18.0

f55b370

This update brings a first HTML to Markdown converter (a preview), lets you hide the frontmatter of your notes, and gives the status bar messages you can look up again — red for what matters, orange for hints. A running search now moves along when you open another document, and mdVü remembers its window size.

Download mdvu.exe below and replace the previous one; settings are kept. Windows SmartScreen may still warn on a freshly published build until the signature has built up reputation; that is a matter of download count, not of the signature being invalid.

SHA-256  343EC6599351A407BC9E29C519DA889EE50B64AB4C9BB8E7727C7055F0E771A9

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/343ec6599351a407bc9e29c519da889ee50b64ab4c9bb8e7727c7055f0e771a9

New in 0.18

HTML to Markdown (preview): Tools → Convert HTML file to Markdown turns a local HTML file into a Markdown file next to it and opens it; mdvu.exe /convert <html> [<md>] does the same without a window. A file mdvu-converter.yaml next to the HTML file controls the details: callouts and code languages by CSS class, parts to skip, links to other converted pages, a frontmatter block, a banner and the base address for relative links. Nothing is downloaded. The converter is a preview — its settings may still change.
Show or hide frontmatter: View → Show Frontmatter collapses the YAML header at the top of a file to a single line, so you can still see that there is one; a click on the line shows it again. While you step through search hits, the frontmatter is always shown in full. Print and PDF leave a hidden frontmatter out. Setting: doc/showFrontmatter.
Messages with a history: messages in the status bar now come in three kinds — red for what matters (something is missing from the output or has failed), orange for hints, blue for a mere confirmation. A small flag at the right end of the status bar lists the earlier ones.
Link target in the status bar: while the mouse is on a link, or a link is selected with the keyboard, the status bar shows where it leads. Links that leave mdVü (web, e-mail) have their own color.
Mark at the reading position: a thin bar at the left edge shows the line of the caret, the current search hit or the selected link.
Diagnostics page: Help → Diagnostics lists the back/forward history with the stored reading positions, and the folders mdVü uses.
Window size is remembered — separately for each screen size, so the notebook display and the large monitor each keep their own. The position is left to Windows. Setting: ui/windowSize.

Changed

A running search moves along: when you open another document while the search strip is open, the term is searched there right away and the hits are highlighted. Enter and F3 search again instead of doing nothing when there are no hits yet.
Links within a document are part of the history: a jump to [section](#section) can be undone with Back.
Link navigation keeps the page where it is: a page opened with the links unit no longer jumps to its first link if that link is off screen (LINK 0/41); ↑ on the topmost link returns to the top of the page.
Messages that matter are red and stay longer: “Preview limited to 200 pages” and “Table wider than page” were easy to miss. Reaching the start or end of the history is now only a brief blue note.

Fixed

In print, the title of a callout could stay alone at the bottom of a page.
The caret now takes the text color of the document instead of a fixed color.
Where a word broke across two lines at a hyphen (a link such as “Little Snow-white”), part of it was left out of the selection, the search highlight or the link mark.

The full list is in the changelog.

Assets 3

mdVü 0.17.0 — faster everywhere, Performance page, pictures in tables

m3repo released this 10 Oct 11:33

v0.17.0

8094d25

This update is about speed: paging through documents, pictures, the folder page and the outline are all noticeably faster — and the new Performance page shows you what mdVü measures while you work. It also brings pictures in tables and opens links to pictures and PDFs in their default application instead of showing them as unreadable text.

SHA-256  8FC10EA5202CD66825C7288D8C19F710A2680FBA00DA5DA91A013CCBDFA6AB7E

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/8fc10ea5202cd66825c7288d8c19f710a2680fba00da5da91a013ccbdfa6ab7e

New in 0.17

Pictures in tables: a table cell that contains only pictures now shows them instead of their alt text. A picture without a width of its own is limited to 400 px; the setting doc/tableImageMaxWidth changes that (0 = natural size). A cell that mixes pictures and text still shows the alt text.
Performance page: Help → Performance shows what mdVü measured in the current session — how long the last pages took to load and to appear, what the caches hold and how much memory is in use. Detail level at the top of the page (normal, medium, verbose) adds a breakdown of each page into its steps; steps that take a quarter of the time or more are highlighted.
Cache settings: the text cache (perf/textCacheMinMB, perf/textCacheMaxMB, perf/textCacheIdleMinutes) and the image cache (perf/imageCacheMB, perf/imageWicDecoder) can be adjusted; the defaults are 8/16 MB for text and 64 MB for images.
Links to pictures and PDFs: a link such as [[photo.jpg]] or [scan](contract.pdf) now opens the file in its default application, after a confirmation. Such files do not become part of the back/forward history.

Faster

Paging through documents: words and emoji that have been laid out once are kept instead of being worked out again on every page; colour emoji stay for the whole session. Going back to a page you have already seen is noticeably quicker.
Pictures, with less memory: PNG and JPEG files are decoded by Windows at the size they are shown, when they are first drawn, and kept in a cache of that size.
Folder page: the page of a folder with a few hundred files appears in well under a tenth of a second (measured: 280 files in about 70 ms instead of 170 ms).
Outline: replacing the outline when a page changes takes a fraction of the time it did.

Fixed

Clicking a link to a picture showed the file as unreadable text in the document view.

The full list is in the changelog.

Assets 3

mdVü 0.16.0 — whole vaults, Explorer context menu, first steps for screen readers

m3repo released this 09 Oct 17:21

v0.16.0

06f4e5a

This update makes mdVü feel at home in your vaults and in Explorer: opening a note shows the whole Obsidian vault or Git repository in the folder view — and it gets there noticeably faster; the Explorer context menu offers Print, Export as PDF and Open with mdVü for every Markdown file, even when another program is your default; and the start page with your recent files and favorites is ready for the keyboard right away. It is also the first step towards screen readers: the folder view and the outline can now be used with Narrator.

SHA-256  4B21EC1688901CAE2E25F47E25CB4A5BE309C9C0D6A20CE464B2E7E3359D4C7E

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4b21ec1688901cae2e25f47e25cb4a5be309c9c0d6a20ce464b2e7e3359d4c7e

New in 0.16

Explorer context menu: File → Register as Markdown default now also adds Print with mdVü (opens the print preview), Export as PDF with mdVü and Open with mdVü to every .md file — even when Obsidian or another program is the default — and Open in mdVü to folders. On Windows 11 they are under Show more options. Already registered? Register once more to get them.
The whole vault or repository in the folder view: opening a file or folder that belongs to an Obsidian vault or a Git repository shows all of it, with the file or folder selected. Moving around inside it no longer changes the folder view; folders opened from the path bar or by drag & drop also show their folder page.
Faster folder view in large vaults: each folder is read only once, and folders starting with a dot (.git, .obsidian, .trash …) are neither shown nor searched (ui/folderTreeHideDot = false brings them back).
Start page with favorites: the start page lists your favorites next to the recently opened files and is now what mdVü starts with once you have opened a file — with the keyboard focus and link navigation on, so the arrow keys and Enter work right away. The start can be set in settings.ini (ui/startPage); the welcome page is under Help → Welcome page.
Screen readers, first steps: the folder view and the outline work with screen readers (tested with Narrator). The document view cannot be read yet; Read in browser (Ctrl+Shift+B) opens the document as a web page for your screen reader in the meantime.
Staying in the link unit: following a link while Links is active keeps it, so you can read on from link to link without the mouse.
Fixed: scrollbars of the folder view and the outline could flicker every half second, with a small constant load even while idle; wikilinks and %%comments%% in table cells; the folder page now shows the Obs/Git badge.

Details in the changelog and the manual on opening files, screen readers and settings.

This is a preview

Features may change and malfunctions cannot be ruled out. The program is free of charge and provided "AS IS" — see LICENSE.

Feedback is welcome: open an issue for anything reproducible — feedback from screen reader users is especially valuable, since making mdVü fully accessible is a declared goal. Crash logs (mdvu.crash.log, written next to the EXE) contain file paths from your machine — mail those to mdView@outlook.de rather than posting them.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11. No .NET, no Visual C++ redistributable, no WebView2 — the EXE is self-contained, and it imports no networking DLL at all.

Dokumentation auf Deutsch: README.de.md · CHANGELOG.de.md · Dateien öffnen

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mdVü 0.15.0 — folder page, peek while browsing, recently changed

m3repo released this 08 Oct 17:20

v0.15.0

b6b45df

This update is about finding your way through a folder: folders open as a page with every Markdown file, its size, date and first lines; moving through the folder view or the outline only peeks at documents, so Back and the recent files keep what you really opened; coloured dots show what changed recently. The mouse's side buttons go back and forward, and short messages appear in the status bar instead of a dialog.

SHA-256  0A2BB6B828A6456692096B450955555AD5C423AABFF90189C5FF54CAB49189A0

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0a2bb6b828a6456692096b450955555ad5c423aabff90189c5ff54cab49189a0

New in 0.15

Folder page: select a folder in the folder view and it shows up as a page — its subfolders and Markdown files with size, date and the first lines of each file. Enter moves into the page ready for the keyboard: the arrow keys go from file to file, Enter opens one. The page follows changes in the folder.
Peek while browsing: clicking or moving with the arrow keys through the folder view or the outline still shows each document right away, but only as a peek — it no longer fills the history (Back) or the list of recent files, and the path bar shows its name in italics. Enter or a double-click opens it for real and moves the focus into the document; so does clicking into the document or F6. Outline jumps made with Enter are now part of the history. Ctrl+Shift+E goes to the folder view.
Recently changed at a glance: a coloured dot behind each file in the folder view shows how long ago it was changed — red within 10 minutes, orange within an hour, yellow within a day, grey within a week. Folders show the dot of their most recently changed file; a file that has just been changed or added lights up briefly.
Filter by last change: the clock ⏱ in the header of the folder view shows only files changed in the last 10 minutes, 30 minutes, hour, day or week.
Back and forward with the mouse: the side buttons of the mouse go back and forward, like in a browser. On keyboards with AltGr, AltGr+←/→ does the same as Alt+←/→ — with one hand next to the arrow keys.
Short notices instead of dialogs: going back past the start of the history (or forward past its end) no longer opens a message box; the status bar says so for a moment. Other short messages appear there as well.
Folder view depth: inside an Obsidian vault or a Git repository the folder view now shows all subfolders instead of two levels.
Fixed: when the window is made wider, narrow strips of document content no longer flash up between the folder view and the document.

Details in the changelog and the manual on the folder view and keyboard shortcuts.

This is a preview

Features may change and malfunctions cannot be ruled out. The program is free of charge and provided "AS IS" — see LICENSE.

Feedback is welcome: open an issue for anything reproducible — whether the deeper folder view feels slow in large vaults or repositories is especially interesting. Crash logs (mdvu.crash.log, written next to the EXE) contain file paths from your machine — mail those to mdView@outlook.de rather than posting them.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11. No .NET, no Visual C++ redistributable, no WebView2 — the EXE is self-contained, and it imports no networking DLL at all.

Dokumentation auf Deutsch: README.de.md · CHANGELOG.de.md · Tastaturkürzel

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mdVü 0.14.0 — copy with formatting, context menu, persistent zoom

m3repo released this 07 Oct 17:05

v0.14.0

2a1fc6f

This update is about getting text out of mdVü: copy a selection into Word or Outlook with its formatting — headings, lists, tables, links and images included — or copy its Markdown source. A context menu in the document offers both, plus Back and Forward. The zoom now survives a restart, and the footer's zoom and unit badges open a menu.

SHA-256  A3A704BF113B1D8D509330730661AC2E70ED1E9AE8B6CC1EF6F48332386E013B

VirusTotal report: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a3a704bf113b1d8d509330730661ac2e70ed1e9ae8b6cc1ef6f48332386e013b

New in 0.14

Copy with formatting: Ctrl+C puts the selection on the clipboard as text and as HTML, the way a browser does. Pasted into Word, Outlook or OneNote, headings, bold and italics, lists, tables and links arrive as such — with the fonts and colours of the print layout. A heading or list you only partly selected keeps its format. Images go along as links to the original files in their original format (Word embeds them when pasting); relative links and Obsidian embeds are resolved to absolute paths. Callout backgrounds don't arrive in Word yet.
Copy as Markdown: Ctrl+Shift+C copies the Markdown source of the selection — starting at a heading or list item, including its ## or -.
Context menu in the document: right-click (or the context-menu key) for Copy, Copy as Markdown, Back and Forward.
Line breaks with <br>: <br>, <br/> and <br /> start a new line — inside table cells, too, where Markdown has no other way.
Zoom menu, and the zoom is kept: click the zoom value in the footer for all steps from 50 to 200 %; the zoom is restored on the next start.
Unit menu: click SCROLL/CARET/LINK/HIT in the footer to pick the reading unit.
In Search in files, the scope list is narrower; opened, it is as wide as its longest entry.
Fixed: in caret mode the hover highlight in the footer no longer flickers; in narrow windows the buttons of the search strips no longer slide into the folder view.

Details in the changelog, the keyboard shortcuts and the Markdown reference on inline HTML.

This is a preview

Features may change and malfunctions cannot be ruled out. The program is free of charge and provided "AS IS" — see LICENSE.

Feedback is welcome: open an issue for anything reproducible — how pasted content looks in your Word or mail program is especially interesting. Crash logs (mdvu.crash.log, written next to the EXE) contain file paths from your machine — mail those to mdView@outlook.de rather than posting them.

Requirements

Windows 10 or 11. No .NET, no Visual C++ redistributable, no WebView2 — the EXE is self-contained, and it imports no networking DLL at all.

Dokumentation auf Deutsch: README.de.md · CHANGELOG.de.md · Tastaturkürzel

Assets 3

mdVü 1.0.2 — Printing fix; settings page, installer with documentation

New in 1.0

Fixed in 1.0.2

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mdVü 1.0.1 — Documentation and samples in the installer; settings page, out of beta

Added in 1.0.1

New in 1.0

Uh oh!

mdVü 1.0.0 — Settings page, installer, out of beta

New in 1.0

Changed

Fixed

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.21.0 — Quick open, search language, emoji cache

New in 0.21

Changed

Fixed

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.20.0 — Tags, several windows, portable ZIP

New in 0.20

Changed

Fixed

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.18.0 — HTML to Markdown (preview), frontmatter toggle, message history

New in 0.18

Changed

Fixed

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.17.0 — faster everywhere, Performance page, pictures in tables

New in 0.17

Faster

Fixed

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.16.0 — whole vaults, Explorer context menu, first steps for screen readers

New in 0.16

This is a preview

Requirements

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.15.0 — folder page, peek while browsing, recently changed

New in 0.15

This is a preview

Requirements

Uh oh!

mdVü 0.14.0 — copy with formatting, context menu, persistent zoom

New in 0.14

This is a preview

Requirements

Uh oh!