Find below the Version History of iA Writer for Windows.
| Version |
Notes |
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| 2.0 |
UI redesign and performance improvements |
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| 1.4 |
Style Check comes to Windows! |
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| 1.3 |
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| 1.2 |
— |
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| 1.1 |
— |
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| 1.0 |
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New in 2.0 beta (2024.12.11)
Added
- Redesigned UI to match Windows 11 aesthetics
- Redesigned the Settings interface
- Added: Rendering single CSV files as tables
- Added: Settings tab labels localization
- Added: Full-width preview mode
- Added: Support for line comments
- Added: Option to directly install spellcheck dictionaries from .zip or .oxt files, with privilege elevation when required
- Added: Preview button
- Added: Strikethrough command in the Format menu
- Added: New option to disable automatic table reformatting
- Improved: Expanded character support in snippet replaceable sections
- Improved: Blockquotes indentation with line wrapping
- Improved: The Title Bar now transitions in and out with a fade effect
- Improved: Moved the Stats menu to the bottom
- Improved: Library layout with enhanced ellipsis for long filenames
- Improved: System shortcuts support in fullscreen mode (`Win+D`, `Alt+Tab`)
- Improved: Localizations across multiple languages
- Improved: Word export dialog user experience
- Improved: Default filename creation for new files
Under the hood
- Added: New typographic engine.
- Added: CSV delimiter automatic detection
- Improved: Modular internal architecture for enhanced performance.
- Improved: Updated PDF export engine with support for preserving external links.
- Fixed: Snippets with multiple dates now render correctly.
- Fixed: Issues with multi-line snippets.
- Fixed: Errors when handling metadata containing colons (:).
- Fixed: Addressed inability to load referenced assets when files are opened externally.
- Fixed: Corrected the color of non-visible characters in dark mode.
- Fixed: Crash when the line length field is empty
- Fixed: Possible caret clipping at the end of lines
- Fixed: Help text for custom Style Check rules
New in 1.4.8748.18429 (2023.12.14)
Added
Under the hood
- Improved: Rendering of non-Markdown files in Preview
New in 1.4.8566.25825 (2023.06.15)
Added
- Option to keep the menu bar always visible
- Natural sort when sorting file names in Library
- Unique TOC styling
Under the hood
- Improved: Loading time of NLP system
- Improved: Tokenization for spell checking
- Improved: Settings management
- Improved: Loading of library
- Improved: Compatibility of Content Blocks syntax with iA Writer 6 for Mac
- Improved: Management of images with upper case extensions
- Improved: Support for inline Math and Math blocks
- Improved: Word Exporter
- Improved: Html comments removal when exporting to Word
- Improved: Layout of Library
- Improved: Hashtags appearance in dark mode
- Improved: Single quotes for spell checking
- Fixed: Math equations when exporting to Word
- Fixed: Bug when moving current line at the end of the document
- Fixed: Bug in copy as Html
- Fixed: Crash when restoring caret position if document was modified externally
- Updated: Help
New in 1.4
Added
Under the hood
- Improved startup time
- Improved menus and window borders
New in 1.3
Added
- Syntax Control
- Individual Scroll
- Snippets
- Smart Tables
- Backups and Autosave
Under the hood
- Updated WebKit by upgrading Chromium to version 79
- Adopted the new Paddle SDK for Windows
- Improved AutoMarkdown in the Editor
- File List scrolling optimization
- KaTeX update to support copy-tex and mchem modules
- XSS filtering
- and much more
New in 1.2
Integrated Preview
- Preview now lives side-by-side with the Editor
- Rendering is now performed with WebKit, to get the same quality as on Mac/iOS
New PDF export
- Headers, footers are now available
- Based of the regular iA templates
- Ability to modify their properties
- Multiple page size support
PDF Preview
- A new toggle in the Preview shows a fully rendered PDF with page breaks, headers, footer and title page
New typography options
- Mono and Quattro in addition of Duo
- Tables are always in Mono in the editor
Preferences
- Brand new Preferences panel for customizations like quote types and other advanced options
New Library interactions
- Button to toggle visibility
- Swipe gesture support
- Drag and drop of files in the File List
Touch support
- For scrolling and selection
- In Library, Editor and Preview
Other improvements
- KaTeX support for Math in Preview, PDF and Word export
- Images in Library can show a tooltip preview and be dragged and dropped into the Editor like other Content Blocks
- Rename in place in the Library
- Focus mode improvements
- Added Chinese full stop to Focus Mode
- Fixed discoloration of current line in Night Mode with Focus Mode
- Add manual Page breaks with
+++ syntax
- Option to hide hashtags from preview
- Added a count of hits in Find
- Proper indent of wrapped list items and block quotes
- Emphasis and Strong Emphasis enhancements
- Added
Open Url context menu item on links
- Last used file type is now recalled in Open dialog
- Added a setting to turn off synchronous scroll with preview
- Fixed selection including a colon registering as zero words in Word Count
- Aligned Reading Time Calculation with Mac/iOS
- Full content block specification support
- Auto Markdown for code and code blocks
- Deleted files and folders are now moved to trash
- Fixed false positives in spell-checker
New in 1.1
Integrated Library
- Add any folder from your PC to the Library
- Files you use frequently can be Favorited so they are always at hand
- Right click on files or folders to Favorite, rename, show in Explorer, delete or change the sort order of the Library file list
- Show or hide the Library from the View menu using
Ctrl+E
Document Outlines
- When you select a file in the Library, its headings are shown as an outline
- Click any heading in the outline to jump to that section of the document in the Editor
MS Word Export
- Now you can export your Markdown documents in .docx format
- Images, tables, footnotes and other esoteric formatting is all supported
Typographic Improvements
- Refined typeface adjusts to different screen resolutions
Other Improvements
- Improved scrolling
- Find/Replace no longer requires the use of a mouse; tab through to each button you need
- Word Goal default is no longer reset on relaunch
- Scrollbar is now hidden in Typewriter Mode
- Fixed text margin calculation issue
- First underscore in filenames now appear in title bar
- Added keyboard shortcut for Save As
- Added accessiblity mode available through user_settings.json in AppData/Roaming/iA Writer
- Added option to force software rendering in user_settings.json (useful with some graphics cards)
New in 1.0
- Save dialog now recalls last used extension
- Added KS Premium Backer list to About
- Improved menu layouts
- Removed Start Menu Folder from Install
- Fixed a bug where
Ctrl+L kept list marker highlighted
- Fixed toggle of Focus Mode using keyboard shortcut
- Fixed incorrect insets when going full screen
- Fixed crashes
- Fixed various smaller bugs
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