Compositor for Windows & macOS release 0.8.2 is available! 🎉

What’s New?

This is another bugfix-focused patch release for Compositor 0.8. It also includes some internal cleanup and performance work to make the app more robust and responsive.

Improvements

• Extracted DVI and code find/replace logic into Core #773
• Virtualized page views and moved page management logic into Core #768
• Run the Windows app in light mode for now #728
• Window panes can now be resized #746
• App icon fixed in the Windows installer #750
• The app icon is now shown in the window title bar and task bar on Windows #765
• It is now possible to insert a paragraph after an image #749

Bugfixes

• Opening a file now resets the source editor scroll position on Windows #771
• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening large documents #770
• Fixed an issue where the source editor could white out on large monitors #769
• Ctrl + - / + on the main keyboard now zooms correctly #764
• Horizontal scrolling now works correctly when a document is zoomed in #767
• Deleting an entire section title no longer leaves an empty section command behind #762
• Editing across a page boundary no longer causes severe document corruption or layout glitches #760
• Improved page zoom performance #719

Other

• Reduced the Windows binary size from 95 MB to just 25 MB by removing previously incorrectly emitted debug information.

Try it Out!

Prerequisites (Windows only)

For the time being, I am using a self-signed certificate to sign the Windows app installers. If you want to install a prototype build, you will need to install my self-signed certificate (once) by following these steps:

Important: The previous certificate expired in March, and I had to create a new one. If you have installed the previous certificate at some point, please delete it, and install the new one instead.

• Download and double-click the certificate file: Compositor.cer
• Click “Install Certificate”
• Choose “Local Machine”
• Select “Place all certificates in the following store” → “Trusted People”
• Complete the wizard

The forthcoming “real” releases will of course be signed with a proper code-signing certificate, and these steps will not be necessary.

Download

The Windows and macOS installers can be downloaded from the Compositor 0.8.2 release page on GitHub.

Your Feedback is Much Appreciated!

Any sort of feedback is much appreciated! You can reach me by email at support at compositorapp dot com.

Next Up

Next up is Compositor 0.9, which will bring the first iteration of a graphical formula editor! Very much looking forward to working on that.

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