Software update: Caliber 1.22

By admin On Jan 31, 2014

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Version 1.22 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

A new tool to compare ebook files, showing the differences in their underlying text, styles and images side by side.
The new compare tool is very useful in combination with the book editor. It allows you to see what changes have been made between checkpoints and what changes were made by automated tools. You can also compare different versions of the same ebook file. How to use each of these features is described below. Screenshots and help for using the new compare tool are at http://manual.calibre-ebook.com/diff.html
Edit book: Add a tool to view the list of checkpoints and compare the current state of the book to the state at the specified checkpoint. To use it click View->Checkpoints
Edit book: Add a tool to compare the book being currently edited with another file. To use it go to File->Compare to other book
Allow comparing the ORIGINAL_EPUB version of a book to the EPUB version by right clicking on the ORIGINAL_EPUB format in the book details panel. And the same for ORIGINAL_AZW3 and AZW3 formats.
Edit Book: Add a button to show the changes after various automated tools are run such as: remove unused CSS, subset embedded fonts, smarten punctuation, etc.
Edit Book: Add check for spine items with incorrect media-type specified in the manifest
Edit Book: Enable editing of page map XML files
DOCX Input: Improve handling of text boxes. Text boxes are still not supported, but they no longer cause errors or duplicate content when embedded inside paragraphs. Close tickets: 1273130
Edit Book: Add check for links that point to directories in the book instead of files. Close tickets: 1272769
Edit Book: Show the filename of the currently edited file in the title bar. Close tickets: 1272543

Bug Fixes

Edit Book: Fix unused CSS removal tool inserting namespace declaration at the top of the stylesheet
Edit book: Fix cover not being updated from the current cover in the caliber library when using Edit Book. Note that you can turn off metadata updating via Preferences->caliber Integration in the Edit Book Preferences. Close tickets: 1272730
Conversion: Add support for