Software update: Caliber 1.30

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Version 1.30 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

  • Cover Browser: Add an option to show covers with their original aspect ratio instead of resizing them all to have the same width and height. Option is in Preferences->Look & Feel->Cover Browser. Close tickets: 1295902
  • PDF Output: Enable using javascript inside header and footer templates
  • Edit Book: When generating an inline ToC add a class attribute to all
      tags to make it easy to style a particular level of the ToC
    • Use abstract named sockets on linux for IPC, to avoid use of temp files for sockets
    • Drivers for the N800 and N950 Nokia MeeGo tablets
    • Edit Book Saved searches: Allow saving normal mode searches as well
    • Edit Book Saved searches: Add import/export functionality
    • calibredb add: Add option to specify language when adding books. Close tickets: 1295200

    Bug Fixes

    • AZW3 Input: Handle files with garbage bytes in their table of contents. Close tickets: 1297713
    • DOCX Input: Fix text from some paragraphs not being converted if the paragraph contains an inline forced page break and no formatted text or line breaks. Close tickets: 1296817
    • caliber-customize: Do not error out if one of the installed plugins has no customization help when listing all plugins
    • Edit book: Fix error when exporting files on some windows systems with non UTF-8 filename encodings. Close tickets: 1298071
    • Edit Book: When beautifying treat tags as block tags. Close tickets: 1297532
    • Linux binary build: Fix worker processes not working on linux systems with bash >= 4.3
    • PDF Output: Fix using __SECTION__ in header and footer templates resolving to the incorrect section if a page with no sections follows a page with multiple sections. Close tickets: 1295236
    • Cover Browser: Fix visual ‘pop’ when scrolling the first time
    • Grid View: Allow the left and right arrow keys to traverse over rows. Close tickets: 1295901

    Improved news sources

    • The Atlantic
    • Courrier International
    • Der Tagesspiegel

    Version number 1.30
    Release status Final
    Operating systems Windows 7, Linux, Windows XP, macOS, Windows Vista, Windows 8
    Website Caliber Team
    Download http://calibre-ebook.com/download
    File sizes

    52.20MB – 83.10MB

    License type GPL
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