Software Update: Caliber 4.1.0

The first update for version 4.0 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source ebook 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. In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new ebook viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine. In version 4.1.0, the following changes and improvements have been made:

New features

• Viewer: Add an option to have a scrollbar (under Scrolling in the viewer preferences).
• Viewer: Allow showing the ‘position in book’, as was displayed in the top left of the viewer in caliber 3, in the header or footer of the viewer. Close tickets: 1846700.
• Viewer: Add options to control scrolling using the mouse in paged mode. Close tickets: 1846800.
• Viewer: Allow copying images by right clicking on them. Close tickets: 1846903.
• Viewer: Add a preference under Miscellaneous to allow only a single instance of the viewer.
• Viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to toggle between paged mode and flow mode and to quit.
• Content server: Make the book size useable in custom book list templates. Close tickets: 1846839.
• Edit metadata: Use a border rather than background color to indicate correct title and author sort values. Works better with dark themes. Close tickets: 1846967.
• Kobo driver: Support for new firmware.

Bug fixes

• Viewer: Fix a couple of bugs in flow mode. Scrolling to anchors was not working and remembering last read position was not working.
• Viewer: Fix text after comments not being rendered. Note that the book has to be reloaded if already viewed for the fix to apply. Close tickets: 1846875.
• Viewer: Fix loading progress screen sometimes getting stuck if changing pages rapidly. Close tickets: 1846751.
• Viewer: Fix failing to open books if path to cache contains symbolic links. Close tickets: 1846834.
• Viewer: When restoring from fullscreen go back to maximized state if window was maximized when entering full screen. Close tickets: 1846753.
• Viewer: Fix shortcut changes not being applied after pressing OK if shortcut list is closed by pressing Esc. Close tickets: 1846765.
• Fix a regression that broke reading metadata from ODT files that do not have keywords. Close tickets: 1846828.
• PDF Output: Fix a bug that prevented the first style property in the header or footer template from being applied.
• PDF Output: Fix error with a few embedded TTF fonts. Close tickets: 1846982.
• Edit book: Font manager: Fix removing embedded font failing if @font-face rule has no src. Close tickets: 1847052.
• Viewer: Hide the browser provided scrollbar that flashes momentarily on page load. Close tickets: 1846922.
• Viewer: Fix clicking on margins causing keyboard shortcuts to not work until the main text is clicked on again.
• Comments editor: Workaround for Qt converting ids into anchors
• Possible workaround for some windows machines where the viewer is getting access denied errors while renaming a directory.
• Viewer: When there is empty text for an header footer section render it as blank instead of moving the remaining sections to the left.

Improved news sources

• Fortune Magazine