Versie 4.11 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Dit opensource-e-bookbeheerprogramma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. 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. In versie 4.0 treffen we een geheel vernieuwde Content Server aan, is er een nieuwe e-bookviewer en is Qt WebKit vervangen door Qt WebEngine. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New featuresBug fixes
- Viewer: Allow right clicking on the scrollbar to easily access commonly used scrolling shortcuts.
- Edit book: Preview panel: Allow right clicking on images to edit them.
- Add a new Quick select action to quickly select a virtual library with a few keystrokes. Activated by Ctrl+t or the Virtual library menu.
- Viewer: Calculate default column widths based on current font size.
- Viewer: Add a control to quit the viewer useful on touchscreens. Closes tickets: 1862441.
- Viewer: Add shortcut for showing metadata (
Ctrl
+N
).Closes tickets: 1862432.Improved news sources
- Viewer: Fix a regression that broke detection of pop-up footnotes using EPUB 3 markup.
- Viewer: Fix current reading position not preserved when changing preferences and auto scroll is active. Closes tickets: 1863438.
- Viewer: Fix stopping autoscroll at end of chapter not stopping next chapter jump. Closes tickets: 1863487.
- Fix for viewer window going off screen even when not restoring window geometry
- Edit book: Fix syntax highlighting for break-(before|after). Closes tickets: 1863020.
- Fix drag and drop of some image files onto edit metadata dialog not working. Closes tickets: 1862440.
- Conversion pipeline: Fix styles applied via selectors to the <html> element being ignored. Closes tickets: 1862401.
- Bulk metadata edit: Fix clear series not resetting series index.
- Fix clicking on author name in book details panel to search in Goodreads not working if author has more than two parts in his name.
- Fixes a couple of regressions that broke the New bookmark button in the viewer and scrolling in the content server library view.
- Fixes calculation of default column widths in viewer not changing when font size is changed.
- New York Times