Versie 5.17 van Calibre is uitgekomen. Dit opensource-e-bookbeheerprogramma is beschikbaar voor Windows, Linux en macOS. Het kan onder meer alle relevante informatie en omslagafbeeldingen 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 5.0 is onder meer de overstap naar Python 3 gemaakt, zijn er diverse verbeteringen in de e-bookviewer aangebracht en is er nu ook een dark mode voor de e-bookviewer en contentserver. In deze uitgave zijn de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen aangebracht:
New featuresBug fixes
- E-book viewer: Image popup: Allow dragging with the mouse to pan the image.Closes tickets: 1926484.
- Sort button: Allow selecting which columns are in the popup sort menu. Closes tickets: 1923724.
- E-book viewer: When suggesting a default bookmark title, use the name of the current chapter. Closes tickets: 1851908.
- E-book viewer: When searching the Table of Contents allow holding the Shift key to search backwards. Closes tickets: 1925038.
- E-book viewer: Add a shortcut Ctrl+0 to restore default font size. Closes tickets: 1925294.
Improved news sources
- Windows MTP driver: Rewrite parts of the driver in the hope of fixing some rare and hard to reproduce crashes.
- Windows MTP driver: Set modified and created times when putting files/folders on device. Also read modified time correctly.
- Windows: E-book viewer: Fix switching away from viewer while in full screen and switching back causing some corruption until the page is scrolled. Closes tickets: 1918591.
- Fix a regression in the previous release that caused errors when editing empty date values. Closes tickets: 1925378.
- Get books: Update Gutenberg plugin for website changes.
- E-book viewer: The quick highlight button should replace the style of an existing highlight, when one is selected. Closes tickets: 1926518.
- Elide long items in the middle when showing the completion popup for tags, to make it easier to use with hierarchical tags. Closes tickets: 1925247.
- E-book viewer: Read aloud: Fix soft hyphens causing read aloud words to be broken up. Closes tickets: 1925988.
- E-book viewer: Right clicking when text is selected should extend the selection instead of doing nothing. Closes tickets: 1925390.
- Fix settings in the ToC Editor tool being forgotten when calibre is closed.
- DOCX Output: Fix conversion failing if the input document has missing images. Closes tickets: 1926025.
- Content server viewer: Fix mouse wheel scrolling not working on the box used to edit notes for highlights. Closes tickets: 1925961.
- E-book viewer: Fix read aloud word tracking in flow mode not very reliable.
- E-book viewer: Fix navigation shortcuts not working in Read aloud mode.
- Barrons
- Krebs On Security
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