Release Notes#

Every release is a Universal Binary requiring macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later, signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Galley checks for updates once a day and can be updated at any time from Galley ▸ Check for Updates…. Installed through Homebrew? brew upgrade --cask galley gets you to the same build.

v0.4#

7 August 2026 — download

New#

  • The galleypdf command, shipped inside the application bundle. Open a PDF, jump to a page, force a reload, or run a SyncTeX forward search from your shell, your editor, or a build script.
  • A Homebrew tap: brew install --cask munepi/galley/galley installs Galley and puts galleypdf on your PATH.
  • New URL scheme endpoint galleypdf://open, with an optional page parameter.
  • Every galleypdf:// endpoint now accepts background=1, so a forward search never takes focus away from your editor — even when it is what launches Galley.
  • Vim/Neovim (VimTeX) joins the SyncTeX menu, so Cmd + Click in the PDF jumps back into your editor. Forward search has worked since VimTeX v2.18, and this completes the round trip. See VimTeX.

Changed#

  • Rectangular selection reports its dimensions to 0.01 mm, up from 0.1 mm.
  • The disk image now contains GalleyPDF.app itself instead of a .pkg installer. Mount it and drag the app onto the Applications shortcut.
  • Updates therefore replace the application in place, and no longer ask for an administrator password.
  • The application bundle carries a stapled notarization ticket of its own, so a first launch works without a network connection.
  • displayline.bash has been replaced by galleypdf displayline, which takes the same arguments without the AppleScript round trip.

Fixed#

  • Quitting with the Fonts or XMP subtab open no longer leaves the Info sidebar there on the next launch, where a font scan would start up behind a spinner. The sidebar returns to Info instead.

v0.3#

28 April 2026 — download

New#

  • PDF Info sidebar with five panels — Info (Document Info, PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/UA, Security, Pages, Features), Fonts (a CGPDFDocument scan walking inherited page resources and Form XObjects), XMP (the raw packet parsed into sections), Bookmarks (click-to-navigate), and Annotations (click-to-navigate, Cmd + C copies the content).
  • View menu shortcuts: PDF Info (Cmd + I), PDF Bookmarks (Cmd + B), PDF Annotations (Cmd + N).
  • Export the sidebar as Markdown or JSON via File ▸ Export ▸ … (All / Info / Fonts / XMP / Bookmarks / Annotations), or from the in-panel Export dropdown.
  • The main window remembers its position and size across launches.

v0.2#

19 April 2026 — download

New#

  • Sparkle 2 auto-update support, with a Check for Updates… menu item and a daily check against the stable appcast.
  • Debug logging through os_log, filterable by subsystem (make log). See Debug Mode.

Changed#

  • Marquee selection refinements in the PDF view.
  • Refined page input HUD behaviour.

Fixed#

  • A generation token now guards against race conditions during PDF reload.

v0.1#

4 April 2026 — download

The first release.

  • A lightweight macOS PDF previewer built on PDFKit and AppKit, with SyncTeX support.
  • Auto-reload when the PDF changes on disk.
  • SyncTeX forward and inverse search.
  • The galleypdf:// URL scheme for editor integration.
  • Emacs (AUCTeX / YaTeX) and Visual Studio Code (LaTeX Workshop) integration.
  • PDF text search with regular expressions and cross-line matching.
  • Precision measurement tools.
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