Software Update: Caliber 3.24.2

A new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source e-book management program and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. In version 3.24, the following improvements have been made:

New features

• Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
• PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines. Close tickets: 1773111
• PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates.
• Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel.
• Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words. Close tickets: 1772276
• Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities. Close tickets: 1772157
• Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks.
• ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well. Close tickets: 1769442

Bug fixes

• PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working.
• DOCX Output: Fix

   tags not being converted correctly.  Close tickets: 1772219

• DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list. Close tickets: 1771279
• Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly. Close tickets: 1772157
• Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top. Close tickets: 1772157
• Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities. Close tickets: 1772157
• EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
• Fix throttle buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars.
• Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed. Close tickets: 1772151
• Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
• Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
• Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux. Close tickets: 1769681
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims. Close tickets: 1769606
• Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation.
• BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings. Close tickets: 1769481
• calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.
• Version 3.24.1 fixes a regression in the 3.24 editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly.
• Version 3.24.2 fixes a bug in the new EPUB 3 output functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3

New news sources

• The Federalist by Kovid Goyal

Improved news sources

• The New York Times Book Review
• New York Times
• Le Devoir