Release Notes
Track the evolution of Seer. From new features to performance optimizations and bug fixes.
3.1.1
- fixed a bug in license module
- fixed a bug where clicking Check for Updates did not respond in some cases
- updated PSD support
3.1.0
- rewrote license module: each key can be used ten times
- Settings - Advanced: added a user.ini
- markdown: load images with relative path
- markdown: new style - sivan/heti.css
- video: use X/C to change speed
- video: use ctrl/shift + left/right to forward/backward 5x/15x
- video: support EXR format by default now
- PDF: added an option(user.ini) to fit window width by default
- PDF: fixed the bug that unable to rotate
- image: use wheel to scroll vertically, alt+wheel to scroll horizontally
- image: improvements for heic formats
- image: added some new formats
- plugin: oiio-1.0.0
- plugin: updated imagemagick to 1.1.0
- fixed some other known bugs
- updated the LICENSE file under installation folder
3.0.1
- fixed some plugin-related bugs
- updated FontViewer to 1.1.0
- Settings - Controls: fixed the bug that unable to save data
- PDF: When no historical preview data, centered horizontally by default
- property view: fixed a bug that same data might be added two times
3.0.0
- reconstructed 1/3 of the source code
- OIT updated to 1.2.0
- added a new font plugin: FontViewer
- fixed a crash after closing preview window
- separated window can separate its sub file
- archive: faster and less memory use
- archive: less UI freezing
- media: no more black window when loading a file which it's not video inside
- PDF: fast, super fast, more than you can imagine
- PDF: annotated view
- PDF: painted page number
- PDF: fixed page width for thumbnails
- PDF: no more UI freezing
- renamed helper.exe to seerhelper.exe and renamed explorer-hook-client.exe to seerhookhelper.exe
- separated can use shortcuts change view option, but will not save it
- minimum time interval to respond a "SPACE" event is 200ms
- fixed sequence for Property view: properties - hash - specific info
- fixed too many bugs that I can't count
2.8.6
- added API for 3rd party apps
- internal support for xyplorer
- support for the tabbed explorer in Windows 11
- fixed font error for certain language
- use Ctrl+N to change all separated windows
- toggle "Stay on top" option will not hide all windows now
- UWP: possibly fixed the bug that unable to read/write Settings
- a few other bugfixes
2.8.5
- added a "What's new" to menu
- synchronize status for some formats when you separated a window
- added a shortcut, Ctrl+N, to normalize the separated window
- control bar: extension field can have more than one suffix now
- added some hidden ini keys
- folder: double click item to open file with system's default software
- media: double click to Play/Pause
- media: added Rotate shortcut for video: R/L
- PDF: dark mode for PDF, default shortcut: D
- PDF: some viewing data in Catalogue are saved
- a few other bugfixes
2.8.4
- video: no more margin
- video: fixed a crash bug
- video: black background for video, even if it's light theme
- PDF: less margin
- fixed a bug with dopus
- stay on top: fixed a logic error
- new option: Settings - Advanced - Max preview size
- argument for plugin: *SEER_NO_CACHE*
- new plugin: xmind
- new plugin: code2html
2.8.3
- some bugfixes for ControlBar App
- text: some important fixes
- video: fixed some fatal bugs
- Settings - Advanced: Export/Import
- generate dmp if crashed
- enhanced RAW image support
2.8.2
- fixed system tray icon display error
- PDF: two display error fixes in Outline view
- folder: fixed some display error of tree node
- text: some important improvements
- video: fixed the display error of progressbar on 1.5x monitor
- new option: Advaned - Video decoders
- new plugin: torrent2json
- new plugin: apkmetainfo2json
2.8.1
- compatible with Tencent ZMZL
2.8.0
- updated translation for Spanish
- updated translation for Korean
- improvements with system tray icon
- improvements when you have multiple minitors with different DPI
- compatible with Dopus
- OneDrive: will show property view if a file is not downloaded
- PDF: hide useless buttons when file is encrypted
- PDF: highlghted parent nodes for Outline
- PDF: added shadows for pages in thumbnail
- image: fixed the display error of the cursor when the mouse is clicked
- text: decode error for UTF-16LE
- archive: will display file properties when file is fully encrypted
- media: fixed some fatal bugs
- media: show a toast message once when your system is muted and Seer is not
- HTML: updated css for Markdown
- some bugfixes and improments
2.7.4
- some bugfixes and improments
2.7.3
- some important bugfixes
- image: SVG can handle W/H shortcuts
- PDF: some bugfixes and improvements
- html: improvements when copying images and texts together
- new plugin: epubviewer
- new option for plugin: *seer_omit_cache*
2.7.2
- updated translation for French
- text: fold icon on the sidebar will display in a "VS Code" way
- text: some improvements for files with extremely long lines
- PDF: fixed a bug that the background is tranparent when copying a page
- PDF: added shortcut, H, to scale current page to fit window height
- image: added shortcuts for vertial scrollbar, Home/End/Return/Enter
- image: added shortcuts, W/H, fit width and fit height
- image: changed some interaction design
- video: fixed some bugs
2.7.1
- reconstructed certain code
- rewrote PDF module
- PDF: added "table of contents"
- PDF: Rotate action for all files
- text: fixed shortcuts, PageUp/PageDown/Up/Down/Wheel, for gigantic file
- text: fixed the bug of copying error
- fixed some other bugs
2.7.0
- rewrote Text module, can load large text files in seconds
- image: added shortcut, ctrl + -/=, to scale image
- folder/archive - tree view: bold font for parent nodes of the selected
- Settings - Type: removed some options, use shortcuts instead
- Settings - Type: added "remember playback position", default value is false
- Settings - Advanced - Visibility: Constant/Dynamic option for Control&Title
- Settings - General: some options are moved to Settings - Advanced
- PDF: fixed a crash bug
- fixed the bug when "Double click to open file with def app" is set
- fixed a bug that not able to parse command line arguments
- added a new way to license: Redeem Code
2.6.1
- updated translation for Italian
- folder: removed dot lines when it got focus
- folder - column view: shortcut Alt+Arrow
- text: shortcut Z(Word Wrap) and N(Line Number)
- text: replaced the folding marker
- text: a few small improvements for highlight of programming language
- plugin - eps2png: updated, no more black window
- plugin - OIT: updated to 1.1.0, faster
- behavior of global shortcut, Focus, was changed, now it's based on Z-order
- updated the backend of some modules: PDF, video, Markdown, Seer, Log
- some other improvements
2.5.4
- new option: Settings - Advanced - Enable "Delete" key
- new option: Run as administrator
- new option: Settings - Keyboard - Text
- PDF: show annotation, shortcut is T
- PDF: selected page will be remembered
- improvements for DOpus
- folder: provided more info in Property view when viewing a root directory
- fixed a bug that missing Ctrl+C response in Text View
- About Seer: "Version 2.5.4+" means running with admin permission
- some other improvements
2.5.3
- supported Everything(www.voidtools.com)
- folder: different default size for different view style
- folder: fixed a crash bug when Right arrow key is pressed in Column View
- folder: added "Goto", default shortcut: Alt+G, Ctrl+click
- fixed a bug when pressing Alt+F4
- fixed a bug that missing Ctrl+C response in Unknonwn View
- dynamic properties(dpi, theme) for Help
2.5.2
- folder: added a "Details" in Column view
- updated some icons
- video: added chapter info to slider
- fixed error when parsing a zip file
- added Korean translation
- no more loading.gif
- internal reconstruction, a lot of work and improvements
2.5.1
- PDF: page number is clickable, it jumps to the selected page
- PDF: mouse drag action
- new option: "Auto" for theme
- a lot of bugfixes
2.5.0
- rewrote the preview window code
- fixed the bug that system shortcuts "Win+Arrow" couldn't work
- fixed the color error of Close button
- more exif data are provided for jpg
- rewrote HiDPI support
- PDF: Ctrl+C will copy the selected page
- a lot of bugfixes
2.4.1
- fixed the bug related to size of heif file
- fixed decode bug for certain video formats
- fixed the problem that text module cannot zoom in
- added Ctrl+=, Ctrl+- shortcut for text module
- PDF: fit height for single page, shortcut is H
2.4.0
- folder view: "preview with Seer" will be in a separated window now
- text view: fixed-font for highlighted code
- property view: added a Pin button to show the view constantly
- property view: more info are provided for .dll and .exe, such as: image base, 64/32 bit
- rewrote PDF module
- new media module
- image view: horizontal scroll for touchpad
- system tray icon will show for 5s even if the "hide" option is set
- HEIC images are supported internally
- animated png file are supported now
2.3.0
- updated Japanese translation
- svg: ability to switch back from code view to image view
- supported several raw image formats: arw, cr2
- removed the plugin, Mask, added "Settings-Type-Disabled"
- added Android-like toast view to display certain message
- improved code highlight, more program language are supported
- supported extra mouse buttons: forward and backward
- fixed update error
- improved performance when viewing a folder
- bugfix and ui improvements
2.2.0
- new plugin: excel2html
- some click operations for Folder View
- save view type for markdown and html
- 3DViewer supports .3ds
- rewrote markdown css for dark style
- archive file: view encrypted file
- archive file: files are now sorted by alphabet table, case insensitive
- archive file: more formats are supported, such as: dmg, apk, msi
- archive file: view subfile in separated wnd
- archive file: more peoperty info provided
- bugfixes
2.1.0
- new plugin: 3DViewer
- updated the main internal library
- reconstructed source code for image window
- scale for svg image
- refined markdown style sheet for both dark theme and light theme
- bugfixes
2.0.0
- control bar: now it's dragable for postion changing
- control bar: switch preview between files with same extension in the same folder
- control bar: all preview controls are moved to the right side
- control bar: all file level controls are moved to the left side
- settings - controls: ability to hide same type navigation buttons
- image: double click image view to restore size and rotation
- image/video: add some touch support
- text: view xml contents from svg file
- PDF files(single page only) are rotatable now
- several optimization and bug fixes
1.9.0
- improvements for HiDPI support
- add shortcut to switch file path which you already previewed
- fix compatibility with Photoshop
- add touch support for system tray icon
- hard-coded plugin data
- a few UI improvements in Settings
- some bug fixes
1.8.0
- improvements for markdown file, and bugfix for custom css file
- improvements for column view of compressed file
- improvements for code view
- bugfix for seperated wnd titlebar
- press "Shift" Key to close all separated preview windows
- update for Japanese translation: thanks to Kobayashi Yoshitaka
- video: restore pos only when the duration longer than 10 minutes
- video: time indicator is clickable now
1.7.1
- fixed a fatal bug on Win 7
- fixed a installation and uninstallation bug
1.7.0
- new PDF module
- some improments in code module
- Property view: Press SHIFT to change copying contents
- a few improments in media module: automatically hide cursor after 3s
- support open/save dialog
- new behavior for title bar and control bar
1.6.1
- restore dopus support
- a double click related bugfix
- bugfix for the icon status of gif play button
- title bar: bugfix for seperate icon status
- text module: bugfix for encoding detecting
1.6.0
- new text module
- video module: preview in progressbar
- new markdown engine: based on marked.js
- seperate preview window
- markdown: ability to switch between rendered and source
- new icon set
- a better file type detecting
- restructured source code
- bugfix
1.5.0
- new plugin: tex2html
- Settings - Advanced - Tray Icon: hide tray icon
- Settings - Advanced - Tray Icon: tray icon style
- Settings - Keyboard - Media: Go to beginning
- Settings - Keyboard - FullScreen
- filter available plugin
- DPI aware
- bugfix
1.4.0
- new style for installation
- dimensions info for image type in Control Bar
- new plugin - md2html
- column view for .zip and .rar
- bugfix
1.3.0
- dark theme
- recording playback position of PDF&video for last 30 items
- video: automatically load subtitle
- Left/Right/Up/Down navigation in folder column view
- Settings - Type - Other: custom Markdown stylesheet file
- command line to hide systemtray icon: Seer.exe -i
- bugfix
1.2.0
- new plugin: exr2png
- new option: open in full screen
- new option: keep window size and position
- ability to hide title-bar and control-bar with 'ctrl' key pressing
- bugfix
1.1.0
- build-in broswer
- ability to not stay on top
- new translation: French
- improve media rendering
- improve PDF loading speed
- shortcut to reload the file: F5
- gif improve: use the shortcuts of Media type to control it
- new plugin: code_highlight
- bugfix
1.0.1
- fix three-day free trail bug
- new translation: Traditional Chinese
1.0.0 - 2016.09.27
- normalize preview window
- improve video display and reduce CPU cost significantly
- markdown html source view
- add new plugin -- Rename
- options in Settings - Advanced: disable folder contents loading, disable file type, ability to reset
- customise controls bar button command
- bugfix: image rotation, crash with loading huge psd image, etc
0.8.0
- read EXIF information for JPG file
- fix some images reading error
- New UI
0.7.5
- command line call, try command line "Seer.exe -?" when Seer not opening
- 2 new translations
- more property info for .exe file
- preview file with no extension
- detect unknown file extension
- reserve position everytime you closed the window for each monitor
- new plugin: exiftool (Adobe InDesign - indeed)
- bugfix
0.7.4
- 6 new translations
- fixed-size for preview window
- ability to mute media
- compatibly with
Listary
- add "ctrl+wheel" to scale image
0.7.3
- everything is copyable, try Ctrl+C
- new plugin: Mask
0.7.1
- setup file will not include plugin file anymore
- new plugin: AutoCAD
- improve markdown preview
- bugfix
0.7.0
- fix plugin adding bug
- more settings, more shortcuts
- customize shortcuts
- switch alipay to wechat pay
- improve folder preview
- media time indication
- save text scale factor, fix margin display bug
- improve psd view, fix big img crashes
0.6.0
- high resolution support
- text decode detect, again
- multi-screen support
- add control bar app
- file property
- window focus shortcut
- new about page
- user-defined text type
0.5.1
- add "auto checks for updates" option
- fix i18n bug
0.5.0
- add "Default decoding" option
- add i18n
- add plugins
- add 3rd party explorer support:
Directory Opus
0.4.3
- fix bugs to make a stable version
0.4.1
- new icons
- add command line exec, e.g.: C:/Seer/Seer.exe E:/A-file.txt
- improve a few user experience
- fix a few logic bugs and display error
0.4.0
- improve image speed significantly
- add image control
- add directory preview
- add "track selected file" option
- add new Logo
- add setup.exe
- add auto update check
- add ai file format support
- change text decode policy
0.3.1
- improve PDF view significantly
- add some settings
- add control bar
- add "Format" feature for xml format and json format
- add text file encoding detect
- add text file decode choices
- add keyboard shortcuts
- redesign appearance
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