New Features

• HTML preview has been ported from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine (Chromium).

Fixes

• Issue #206: ghostwriter now has right-to-left language support.
• Issue #391: mathml option for pandoc is now used to render math equations for preview and export.
• Issue #411: Fixed crash when adding a new theme with no theme selected.
• Issue #412: Fixed export to PDF (wkhtmltopdf) failure with Pandoc.
• Issue #430: Fixed issue extra spaces appearing between <br/> tags in the HTML preview.
• Removed print support, since it has some odd bugs on some platforms, and most users would want to print their exported content anyway.
• Removed graphics fade effect for the bottom of the editor, as it is a risky feature that has caused bugs in the past and does not work on HiDPI screens.

Notes

Version 1.5.0 brings various HiDPI improvements. However, SVG icons for the full screen button and the HUD window buttons will look overly large and clipped. Drop shadows on text and buttons will also look somewhat pixelated. This is due to QTBUG-60026, which has been fixed in Qt 5.9. It is recommended for users using Qt versions below 5.9 to use FHD screen resolution when using ghostwriter.

Version 1.6.0 and above will no longer compile with Qt 4 due to new features that depend on Qt 5. Please use Qt 5 when building ghostwriter from the source code.

Windows Download

A volunteer has kindly stepped up to provide a Windows installer here:

https://github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter

Since I will no longer be able to provide new releases of ghostwriter for Windows personally, please consider helping out our volunteer at issue #367 if you are interested.

Linux Downloads

Ubuntu Linux users can download the latest version of ghostwriter from the Launchpad PPA using the following commands in a terminal window:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wereturtle/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ghostwriter

You may also visit the wereturtle package archive page directly. For more information on how to add a PPA to your system, please see the Launchpad guide. Note that this version of ghostwriter has been packaged in the PPA solely for the following Ubuntu versions:

• Bionic (18.04)
• Disco (19.04)
• Eoan (19.10)

Note: It is recommended for users of Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to use the Flatpak package (detailed below), since QtWebEngine is unavailable on that version of Ubuntu, thus preventing supplying ghostwriter via the PPA.

ghostwriter is also available as a Flatpak package at Flathub.

The following are links to unofficial packages/repositories for other Linux distros, kindly provided by volunteers. Note that you may have to wait for them to be updated to the latest version of ghostwriter.

• Fedora (Click "Show community packages")
• openSUSE
• Arch Linux AUR