Versie 1.36 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. In deze release zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Edit Book: A new tool to filter style information (Tools->Filter style information). Useful to easily remove some CSS properties from the entire book.
- DOCX Input: Add support for cross references. Cross references that are used to insert hyperlinks are now converted into hyperlinks in the output document. Features to insert paragraph/page numbers are not supported.
- Add support for viewing kepub files in the calibre viewer, by treating them as plain epub files
- Edit book: In the Insert Link tool show a few words of text alongside the location anchor name, to make it easier to know what a location is
- Manage user dictionaries: Allow copying all selected words by right clicking them and choosing 'Copy to clipboard'. Closes tickets: 1315340
- Content server: Make .ibook format files available in OPDS feeds
- Edit book: Allow copying the list of errors from the Check Book tool to the clipboard by right clicking on the list of errors
- Book polishing: If the books being polished have an ORIGINAL_EPUB/AZW3 format, warn the user that polishing will use it as the source and ask for confirmation. Closes tickets: 1316158
Improved news sources
- Fix metadata plugin to download metadata from OZON for website changes. Closes tickets: 1300383
- Subsetting embedded fonts: Fix an error when subsetting embedded fonts on windows if the username contains quotes or apostrophes. Closes tickets: 1316533
- Edit Book: Fix error when checking spelling if one of the files in the book declares an invalid (empty) language code. Closes tickets: 1316170
- Linux install: Have the calibre GUI programs redirect stdout and stderr to null when launched via .desktop files to workaround systems where the GUI launchers are broken. Closes tickets: 1315458
- Edit Book: Fix inserting a < in text that contains a colon causing a hang.
- DOCX Input: Fix error when converting document with nested frames. Closes tickets: 1317543
- Various Japanese news sources
- National Geographic