Software update: Caliber 1.40

Last week lead developer Kovid Goyal was on a trip and as a result no new version of Caliber had appeared, but this Friday it just happened again. 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

• Edit Book: Add a new tool to manage fonts. Allows easily changing/removing/embedding fonts in the entire book. To use it go to Tools->Manage Fonts
• Edit Book: Allow the color of the links in the Live CSS panel to be themed. Close tickets: 1326897
• E-book viewer: Add a keyboard shortcut to bookmark current location. Close tickets: 1326198

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Check book: When auto-changing font name to match actual name in font file, also change the font name in shorthand font declarations
• Edit Book/Book polishing: Fix embedding all referenced fonts not catching fonts that are only specified via style attributes and not in any stylesheets.
• Conversion: Fix normalization of CSS shorthand font property not working when multiple font families are specified in the same shorthand property
• Edit Book: Live CSS: Fix clicking on link to go to style definition not working if the stylesheet contains CSS 3 @media queries or @font-face rules
• Edit Book: When importing DOCX files, set the media type for html files correctly
• Edit Book: Fix import of DOCX files that contain no Table of Contents not working. Close tickets: 1327522
• Portable installer: Fix a crash if the user selects a destination for the portable install that does not have enough disk space. Close tickets: 1324575
• Fix date column not showing date added when adding zip/rar files that contain an OPF with a caliber timestamp in its metadata
• Sony driver: Fix SONY annotation app not working with files sent to the device by caliber
• Linux build: Fix regression that caused opening PDF files (or any externally viewed files) preventing caliber from being restarted as long as the external viewer is not shutdown. Close tickets: 1326453
• Edit book: Fix changing underline style to none when creating a custom color scheme causes error.
• Check Book: Fix empty (zero byte) XML files causing check book to fail. Close tickets: 1326073
• Check Book: Fix combination of mismatching font family names and a font-family declaration with an invalid value (such as a dimension) causing auto fixing of errors to fail. Close tickets: 1325070

Improved news sources

• respect
• news week
• Jerusalem Post
• India Outlook
• PC Magazine
• Instapaper