Versie 2.59 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform-e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder meer alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken, en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers. Verder kan het programma kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat. Ook kunnen met Calibre boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. Het programma wordt actief ontwikkeld en meestal verschijnt er om de andere week op vrijdag een nieuwe versie. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:
New FeaturesBug Fixes
- Amazon metadata download: Download the series information when available from amazon.com
- Amazon metadata download: Recognize common patterns of embedding the series name after the title and remove it automatically
- Edit Book: Add support for EPUB 3 to the Table of Contents tool. Now when editing EPUB 3 files using the tool will automatically generate both the EPUB 3 navigation document and the NCX table of contents for backwards compatibility.
- EPUB Input: Implement reading of Table of Contents from EPUB 3 files that do not specify a fallback NCX ToC
- EPUB metadata: When setting a cover image for an EPUB file that has no metadata cover image defined, add the new cover image as a pure metadata cover instead of aborting.
Improved news sources
- Fix crash on exit if any plugins have loaded code that raises exceptions during shutdown. Closes tickets: 1592414
- Copy to library: Speed up checking for duplicates when copying multiple books to a large library. Closes tickets: 1593027
- Get Books: Update Smashwords plugin for website changes. Closes tickets: 1590653
- Edit Book: Fix a bug in the new text search facility that could cause searches to fail when searching from the current cursor position instead of the top of the file. Closes tickets: 1588778
- Bulk conversion dialog: Fix page margin settings being ignored when converting to DOCX
- Make the default shortcut for remove books Backspace on OS X since many mac keyboards have no delete key and the backspace key is labelled as delete
- Edit Book: Check Book: Do not warn if a cover image is not referenced in the text
- E-book viewer: Fix a bug that could cause incorrect rendering of chapter titles in some rare circumstances.
- Windows console output: Handle consoles with non black and white color scheme correctly
- Fix a regression in 2.57 that caused auto-removal of borders from covers to become much less proficient at detecting borders
- Fix a regression in 2.57 that broke grayscaling of images
- Technology Review (DE)
