Software update: Caliber 2.5.0

The fifth update of Caliber version 2.0 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. Furthermore, the program can 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 2.0 has, among other things, switched to Qt5 for the user interface and there are improvements with Android devices under OS X. In version 2.5.0, the following changes and improvements have also been made:

New Features

• E-book viewer: Allow changing the website that is used as a dictionary for looking up words in the viewer. Click the Preferences button in the viewer and choose the dictionaries tab to customize the website.
• Edit book/Book polishing: When embedding fonts or subsetting embedded fonts, handle the :first-letter and :first-line pseudo-element style rules. Close tickets: 1373649.
• Windows driver for Trekstor Pyrus 2 LED. Close tickets: 1376018.

Bug Fixes

• Fix a typo preventing caliber from recognizing the new Kobo Aura H2O.
• Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replaced words coming back into the list when toggling the “Show only misspelled words” setting.
• Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replacing a word with multiple words causing the replacements to show up erroneously in the list of misspelled words. Close tickets: 1370294.
• Edit Book: Fix leading or trailing hyphens on words being ignored when spell checking. Close tickets: 1370288.
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression, caused by a Qt 5 behavior change, that caused incorrect colors to be shown when viewing MOBI files that use CSS 3 color specifications internally.
• MOBI Output: Handle input documents that use CSS 3 syntax for colors by converting the color to the #RRGGBB format required for MOBI.
• Tag Browser: Fix drag and drop of books onto a language not setting the language. Close tickets: 1373504
• Tag Browser: When renaming an item that is currently being searched for, remove the search indicator, as the search will no longer match the renamed item. Close tickets: 1374624
• Bulk metadata edit: Fix getting cover from EPUB files that have no cover image by rendering the first page as the cover not working. Close tickets: 1374243
• Custom cover generation: Fix disabled color schemes not being saved. Close tickets: 1374337
• Wireless device driver: Fix a regression in 2.4 that caused book matching to run slowly when connecting to caliber companion.

Improved news sources

• Sueddeutsche Zeitung
• The Hindu
• carta