Version History

All changes, new features and improvements of MarkForge at a glance.

Version 1.3.0

December 31, 2025 Current

✨ New Features

  • Theme Designer - Create your own custom PDF themes with individual colors, fonts and layouts.
  • Theme Presets - Start with 12 pre-built templates and customize them to your needs.
  • Real-time Preview - See changes to your theme instantly in the live preview.
  • Theme Validation - Automatic verification of theme settings for completeness and correctness.
  • Theme Export/Import - Share your themes or use them across projects.
  • Advanced Theme Options - Fine-tuning for headings, paragraphs, code blocks, tables and more.
  • Localized Welcome Content - Editor and live preview show localized sample text in German and English.
  • Keyboard Shortcut for Workflow Mode - Quick access with ⌘⇧W.

🔄 Improvements

  • Hover buttons for quick duplicate and delete actions in theme sidebar.
  • Theme Designer accessible via menu (⌘⇧T) and Welcome dialog.
  • Improved German localization with informal address.
  • Optimized theme management with better overview.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed compiler warnings for better code quality.
  • Minor stability improvements.

Version 1.2.0

December 26, 2025

✨ New Features

  • Workflow Mode for automated Markdown conversion in the background.
  • Worker System for monitoring directories with configurable settings.
  • Flexible Scheduling with interval-based or time-scheduled execution.
  • Post-Processing via Email - Automatic sending of converted files via SMTP.
  • Post-Processing via SFTP - Automatic upload to remote servers.
  • Dashboard with overview of all workers and statistics.
  • Detailed Logging of all conversions with export function (CSV, TXT, JSON).
  • Worker Groups for organization and categorization of workers.
  • Export/Import of worker configurations for backup and transfer.
  • macOS Notifications for conversion errors.
  • File Handling Modes: Rename with timestamp, change tracking, or move to "Done" folder.
  • Directory Structure Preservation optional for export and done folder.

🔄 Improvements

  • Improved sandbox compatibility through security-scoped bookmarks for all directories.
  • Optimized background processing for better energy efficiency.
  • Parallel processing with intelligent concurrency control (max. 3 simultaneous conversions).
  • Secure password storage in macOS Keychain for SMTP and SFTP.
  • Improved localization and UI optimizations.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Various UI/UX improvements and bug fixes.
  • More stable bookmark management with automatic refresh for stale bookmarks.

Version 1.1.0

December 14, 2025

✨ New Features

  • Distraction-Free Mode in Editor for focused writing without distractions.
  • Toggleable Live Preview in editor for flexible workflow.
  • New editor with syntax highlighting for better readability of Markdown code.
  • Change monitoring prevents loss of unsaved changes.
  • Blockquotes in PDF export now show the left colored bar (like in preview and HTML export).
  • Table of Contents (TOC) can now break across multiple pages when very long.
  • Horizontal divider under TOC heading for better visual separation.
  • Reading time display in editor status bar with seconds display for short texts.

🔄 Improvements

  • TOC spacing adjusted to match live preview for consistent rendering.
  • Tables are now rendered professionally as grid tables with complete borders.
  • Tables can now correctly break across multiple pages without being cut off at the bottom.
  • Improved table formatting: correct padding, borders, and column alignment (left, center, right).

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: Blockquotes had no left colored bar in PDF export.
  • Fixed: Very long table of contents did not break correctly across multiple pages.
  • Fixed: TOC spacing was inconsistent with live preview.
  • Fixed: Tables disappeared below page height in PDF export.
  • Fixed: Page break issues with large tables and other tall elements.
  • Fixed: Header and footer positioning including page numbers corrected.

Version 1.0.3

December 13, 2025

✨ New Features

  • Support for relative image paths in Live Preview.
  • Distraction Free Mode ("Start Focus") to hide UI elements.
  • Estimated reading time statistics in the editor status bar.

🔄 Improvements

  • Table headers are now only rendered if they contain text. Empty header rows are automatically hidden.

🐛 Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where images with relative paths were not displaying in the Live Preview.