QuickLook

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Changes

• #1210: Fix an issue where syntax highlighting does not work when previewing texts.

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Changes

• #1153: Supports tabbed File Explorer in Windows 11 22H2.
• #329: Adds an option (UseColorProfile) to respect monitor color profiles.
• #1147: Uses Mica blur effect on Windows 10+.
• Updates French, Polish, and Brazilian Portuguese translations.

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Changes

• #1028, #1032: fixed a bug where previewing from Open and Save File Dialogs are not working.
• Update 3rd party dependencies.

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Changes

• macOS-like hold-to-preview: hold the Spacebar for a longer time to peek into file contents.
• #955: fixed delay when dragging the preview window on Windows 11.
• #948: slowness when previewing text files of super long lines.
• #941: Fixed an issue where UI language is not detected correctly.
• #933: Added support for previewing RTF files.
• Italian, Spanish, French, Korean, Slovak, and German translation updates.

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Changes

• #420, #452, #757: enhanced support for multiple monitors having different DPI scales
• #759: fix thumbnail orientation for photos from a few camera models
• #421 #465 #505 #665 #672 #705 #805: show annotations in PDF
• #539: replace IE with MS Edge WebView2
• #787: add CTRL-F search bar in Text Viewer
• #796: close preview window correctly upon ALT-F4
• #825: fix an error when reading previewing images with names containing URL-encoded strings
• #762: fix wrong video orientation
• #834: fix non-linear volume in video viewer

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NOTE: User data location is moved for portable version.
You can either start fresh or migrate manually: Wiki | Differences Between Distributions | Differences Between Distributions.

Changes

• Support long (longer than 255) file path in Windows 10, opt-in here: How to Enable or Disable Win32 Long Paths in Windows 10
• Fix #729: Option to hide the tray icon: Wiki | Advanced configurations | Hide the tray icon
• Fix #731: write data to app folder in the portable mode
• Fix #401: Static GIFs are not visible
• Fix #669: HEIF images in wrong colours
• Fix #715: Conflict with the Windows Explorer "type to select" feature
• Fix #711: Single-page PDF is low in resolution
• Fix #733: Detect Markdown file encoding
• Add EXR, MXF, and AVIF image formats
• Hungarian and Indonesian translation updates

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Changes

• Revert the previous change “preview windows no longer steal focus” due to serious bug. See #644 for details
• Fix #579: Since Windows 10 1909, previews pop up accidentally when typing space into the Explorer’s search box

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Changes

• #644: Preview windows no longer steal focus (only on Windows 10)
• #633: Preview window positioning enhancement: (1) now a preview will show on the monitor where you invoked it (2) preview will try to align itself to the edge of the screen just like on macOS
• Fix #625: URL shortcuts containing non-http/https links are being previewed
• Fix #515, #628, #640, and #650: Reworked Image Viewer to solve "image disappear" errors
• Fix #638: Black texts in dark Mode in CSV viewer
• Fix #623: Preview flashes for LNK shortcuts
• #340, #445, #610: Implement a pixel-perfect image viewer
• #385: Preview EMF and WMF vector images
• New plugin for previewing PostScript (PS and EPS) files. See "Wiki" -> "Available Plugins" for details

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Improvements

• #627: QuickLook got a new icon!

Fixes

• #603: Video file is (finally) no longer locked during playing

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Fixes

• #504: Crash after opening a malformed .csv file
• #521: Clipboard is overwritten when using together with Everything
• #549: Wrong window size when videos are not in 16:9 ratio
• #566: Russian translation is not loaded correctly
• #572: .bat file highlighting is not loaded correctly
• #604: The “Open with XXX” button takes too much space

Improvements

• #547: Support .aif and .m4r files
• #550: Display .url shortcuts as webpages
• #552: Add an option to auto-loop videos
• #553: Add double-click on images to reset the zoom level
• #603: Video file is no longer locked during playing
• #613: Add Ruby file (.rb) highlighting

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This is a minor release that fixes the invisible tray icon in Windows 10 1903.

Fixes

• #488: SVG images cannot be previewed.
• #503: Tray icon is invisible when using Windows 10 1903 Light Theme.
• Slovak translation.

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Fixes

• Crash when closing a video preview before media has been loaded.
• Handle Apple HEIC image format (note: not Nokia HEIC format).
• #352: Unnecessary scrollbar when viewing images at 100% zoom.
• #361: Separate icons for “Share” and “Open with”.
• #371, #413: Exception when previewing any kind of audios/videos.
• #377: Text preview is very slow when lines are too long.
• #408: Fix blurry when using multiple monitors with different DPI or when changing system DPI.
• #417: Performance improvements when previewing PNG images.
• Hindi, Korean, Marathi, and Turkish translations.

Starting from this version, we will remove the leading 0. from the version number. This change is to accompany Windows Store’s release rule, which requires the last digit of a version be 0.

Fixes

• #347: QuickLook crashes when being launched on a Polish Windows.
• Better PDF thumbnail loading.
• Ukrainian translation.

This release is a hotfix for 0.3.6, addressing an issue where images can be in the wrong orientation: #337.

Known issue: Polish users will not be able to run the application. See #347.

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Highlights

• QuickLook now supports plugins! See a list here.
• Brand-new Office viewer, which does not require MS Office (as a plugin).
• Dark theme (follows System colour scheme).
• Nearby Sharing for newer Windows 10.
• Speed improvements for Image viewer, based on NConvert.
• New video player based on LAVFilters.
• Polish, Russian, and Vietnamese translation.

More details can be found [here].

This is a minor update from version 0.3.4 and 0.3.3.

Highlights

• TextViewer: Support more highlighting schemes.
• Modify message text as requested for pre-installation package.

Known Issues

#94: Previewing MS Office files may crash QuickLook. Syncfusion provides a stable solution but their agreement is very unfriendly.

This is a minor update from version 0.3.3, with a fix for possible crash on few Windows OS.

This version number accompanies the Microsoft Store, who does not accept non-zero revision numbers. The version number 0.3.4 should be treated as 0.3.3.1.

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Due to personal reasons, this version does not contain all features as planned here. The remainings will be delayed until the next release.

Highlights

• Lots of user experience, stability and CPU usage improvements: semi-transparent window, open/close animation, etc.
• Catalan, French, German, Japanese and Norwegian translation
• Video playback with hardware decoding and subtitle support

More details can be found [here].

Known Issues

#94: Previewing MS Office files may crash QuickLook. Syncfusion provides a stable solution but their agreement is very unfriendly (details inside).

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This is a reissue of version 0.3.2 with a fix for issue #113.

Fixes

#113: video preview causes QuickLook hang-up in few circumstances.

Below attached the release note for version 0.3.2:

Improvements

• Add Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian and Dutch(Belgium) translations.
• Minor adjustments to new UI design.
• Get rid of VLC playback engine. Switch back to FFmpeg.
• Previewing images is now significantly faster.

Fixes

#78: Broken image for some compressed .gif files.
#92: File in use: .gif file handle is not closed.
#93: Incorrect preview size for low-resolution images.
#98: Switching preview resets window size.
#101: Pressing Spacebar in Listary toolbar brings up the preview.
#105: Switching preview causes 1px window movement.
#106: Previewing low-resolution image thumbnails and load the full image in the background.

Known Issues

#94: Previewing MS Office files causes crash sometimes. I have not yet figured out how to deal with it.

Improvements

• Add Portuguese Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian and Dutch(Belgium) translations.
• Minor adjustments to new UI design.
• Get rid of VLC playback engine. Switch back to FFmpeg.
• Previewing images is now significantly faster.

Fixes

#78: Broken image for some compressed .gif files.
#92: File in use: .gif file handle is not closed.
#93: Incorrect preview size for low-resolution images.
#98: Switching preview resets window size.
#101: Pressing Spacebar in Listary toolbar brings up the preview.
#105: Switching preview causes 1px window movement.
#106: Previewing low-resolution image thumbnails and load the full image in the background.

Known Issues

#94: Previewing MS Office files causes crash sometimes. I have not yet figured out how to deal with it.
#113: If you experience an issue when previewing some video files which makes QuickLook stops responding, please provide your system locale in this thread. Thank you.

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