v1.8.5

• Include missing standard PDF fonts on Windows, which caused pdfs that don’t include fonts (e.g. images from ggplot2) to have symbols that were not rendered
• Fix high-DPI (scaling ≥ 200%) blurriness on Windows
• document and improve error messaging for Gstreamer’s Gtk plugin dependency (libgstgtk)

v1.8.4

• Fix bug in v1.8.3 where translations were not being found
• Update Italian and Polish translations
• Avoid inconsequential errors on exit

v1.8.3

• Various improvements to drawing tool:
  • improve smoothness,
  • widen range of line widths (in particular thinner lines),
  • support stylus pen pressure
  • allow setting width on eraser drawing tool
  • support stylus eraser tip
• Increase traditional chinese translation coverage

v1.8.2

• Fix resource importing issues on python 3.8 and 3.9

v1.8.1

• improve packaged docs appearance and coherence
• update latest translations (chinese)
• fix monitor handling on wayland: fullscreen-on-start only instead of crashing #283, do not attempt to move windows as we can’t
• fix importlib.resources issue which caused crashes on older python versions #282
• only save window size if not maximised
• do not attempt to start fullscreen if we detect i3 wm #282

New Contributors

• @cgevans made their first contribution in #284

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

v1.8.0

The main features of v1.8 are:

• Automatic full-screen of the content window on your non-primay screen when connecting a 2nd screen, or extending the desktop to a 2nd screen if both screens were mirrored.
• A “deck overview” widget that allows to see all slides and click the desired one for fast access
• Improved media support, including no visual artefacts when playing embedded audio files, and support for media start position and duration.

New Contributors

• @timvahlbrock made their first contribution in #265
• @kenohassler made their first contribution in #268
• @paulo-haas made their first contribution in #266
• @f0k made their first contribution in #273
• @atsuyaw made their first contribution in #280

Full Changelog: v1.7.2...v1.8.0

v1.7.2

• Improve locale handling and translations, including adding new Chinese and Italian translations, and translation of menu items
• Fix display of shortcuts in shortcuts display window
• Improve shortcuts to erase in note scribbling
• Allow beamer notes on separate pages with a notes: prefix to the page number, e.g. with \addtobeamertemplate{note page}{}{\thispdfpagelabel{notes:\insertframenumber}}
• Allow beamer notes on every second page (no automatic detection possible)

v1.7.1

Fix errors in compiling catalogs with gettext during build process

v1.7.0

• Make “next slide” a grid of 1-16 next slides
• Allow dynamic layout editing from pympress (rather than modifying the config file manually)
• Make annotations editable
• Allow to save modified PDF files
• Automatic next slide and looping
• Support auto-play (some annotations, e.g. movie15 / ConTeXt)
• Make gstreamer default media backend on macOS and Linux
• Limit to python 3.4+ to do some code modernization

v1.7.0b4

Release bug fixes in new beta