Versie 1.2 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder andere alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat, en kunnen er boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. Elke vrijdag verschijnt er een nieuwe versie en in deze release zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Conversion: Add support for the CSS3 rem font size unit
- MTP devices, such as Android tablets/phones: Allow ignoring any folder on the device, not just top level folders. For newly connected devices, also scan /Android/data/com.amazon.kindle for books by default (newer versions of the Kindle app place downloaded files there).
- Speed up sorting when the book list is showing a restricted set of books, such as when the results of a search are displayed or a virtual library is used. Closes tickets: 1217622
- Edit metadata dialog: Add an undo option for the Trim cover button. Closes tickets: 1219227
Improved news sources
- Amazon metadata download: Update to handle website changes at amazon.com
- PDF Output: Workaround a bug in the library calibre uses to render HTML to PDF that caused text in some documents that used small-caps fonts to not render correctly. Closes tickets: 1216354
- Kobo driver: When a sideloaded kepub is added from a Kobo device to the calibre library, it is added as an epub, but the file copied is corrupt. Closes tickets: 1221035
- Fix changing the user interface language in the welcome wizard causing some parts of the interface to remain in the old language until calibre is restarted. Closes tickets: 1220767
- Fix regression in 1.0 that broke setting author names with the | character in them. Closes tickets: 1220348
- Content server: When running from inside the main calibre program, do not restrict the books shown based on the current virtual library in the main program. If you wish to restrict the books shown in the content server, use Preferences->Sharing over the net.
- Output dates in the local timezone instead of UTC when generating CSV catalogs
- Library maintenance: When doing a check library instead of dumping the database to SQL and restoring it, run a VACUUM. This works around various bugs in the dump and restore capabilities of apsw. Closes tickets: 1217988
- Edit metadata dialog: Fix adding an image to an empty comments block not working
- Conversion: Fix font declarations with invalid font-family values causing conversion to abort when subsetting is enabled.
- MOBI Output: Fix conversion of some super/sub scripts failling if they are the first or last element in a paragraph. Closes tickets: 1218858
- New database backend: Various improvements to make the backend more robust against databases with invalid/corrupt data in them.Closes tickets: 1218465, 1218783
- Countryfile