Versie 1.44 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: Syntax highlight links, images, stylesheet includes, etc. Links that point to missing files are marked as errors. You can Ctrl + click on a highlighted link to jump to the file it points to directly.
- Edit Book: Check Book: Add a check for manifest items missing rel="external" href attributes. Closes tickets: 1339766.
- When clicking in the search box, select all existing text, for easy replacement. Closes tickets: 1338862.
- Edit Book: Add buttons to change the text alignment of the current paragraph. If you do not see them, go to Preferences->Toolbars and add them to the Text formatting actions toolbar.
- Improve performance of rendering the book list when lots of column coloring rules are used.
- Kobo driver: Support for new firmware version 3.5.
Improved news sources
- Edit Book/Book polishing: Do not auto-resolve @import rules in AZW3 files. Also do not add a @namespace rule to all stylesheets that contain tag selectors.
- Edit book/Book polishing: Preserve the class attribute on the <html> tag in AZW3 format files. Closes tickets: 1339055.
- Edit Book: Fix inline spell check context menu not working when triggered by context menu key or a right clicking at the right edge of the word.
- Fix some font directories from fonts.conf being ignored on linux when scanning the system for installed fonts. Closes tickets: 1339257.
- Edit book: Spell checker: Treat hyphenated words as single words for spell checking.
- Edit Book: When using the spell check dialog to change words, detect any changes made to open files outside the spell check dialog and automatically integrate them, to prevent those changes from being lost.
- Update driver for Tolino Shine to handle new firmware. Closes tickets: 1338219.
- Book polishing: When changing the cover in an EPUB file, place the newly created cover image in the same folder as other images in the book, rather than the root.
- Linux installer: Use pkg-config to get the location for installing the calibre bash completion scripts. pkg-config is used only when installing to /usr. Closes tickets: 1340023.
- Science Daily.