Software update: Caliber 1.8
A new version 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 ebooks 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. In version 1.8 the following changes and improvements have been made:
New Features
- DOCX Input: Support linked (as opposed to embedded) images, if the linked image is found on the local computer. Close tickets: 1243597
- FB2 Input: Add support for note and cite back references. Link pairs of type=”note” and type=”cite” now automatically generate the correct back reference. Close tickets: 1243714
- When automerging books during during an add, include the author as well as the title in the report of merged books.
- OS X Mavericks (10.9) breaks connecting to iTunes and iBooks on iOS devices. For more details see: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215624
Bug Fixes
- OS X: Fix system tray notifications causing crashes on some OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) systems (those that had Growl installed at some point). Close tickets: 1224491
- OSX: Fix font size in completion popups too small on Mavericks (I hope). Close tickets: 1243761
- PDF Output: Fix rendering of some semi-transparent images. All semi-transparent images are now rendered using soft masks. Close tickets: 1243829
- MOBI Output: Fix text marked with white-space:pre-wrap causing the Kindle to break lines at arbitrary points inside words. Close tickets: 1240235
- FB2 Input: Fix a regression that broke conversion of FB2 files with paragraphs having both a style and an id attribute. Close tickets: 1243709
- TXT Input: Ensure that
in the generated HTML has a meaningful value. Close tickets: 1236923 - Book details panel: Fix HTML in author names and identifiers not being escaped. Close tickets: 1243976
- HTML 5 parsing: Fix handling of xml:lang attributes on all elements xml:lang is now mapped to a plain lang on all elements, not just
- Update HTML 5 parser used in caliber (html5lib-python) to fix a few corner cases
- When bulk deleting formats, use a single temporary directory for the deleted files. This makes restoring them from the recycle bin a little cleaner. Also might fix the reported issue with the windows recycle bin choking on creating a large number of folders.
- DOCX Input: Add support for hyperlink fields that have only anchors and not URLs
- DOCX Input: Fix handling of multiple block level bookmarks at the same location. Close tickets: 1241451
- HTMLZ Output: Fix Htmlz does not apply inline css from . Close tickets: 1242261
- Fix the restore database operation failing on windows installs with long usernames (this would cause the path to the temporary folder used to restore the database to become too long).
- ODT Input: Various workarounds for broken ODT files generated my mk4ht
- Fix a bug with non-ascii text in the create catalog dialog
Improved news sources
- A List Apart
Version number | 1.8 |
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 |
50.80MB – 81.10MB |
License type | GPL |