Download Caliber 1.36

Version 1.36 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. Among other things, it can look up all relevant information and cover images, and convert e-books to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• 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 caliber 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’. Close 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. Close tickets: 1316158

Bug Fixes

• Fix metadata plugin to download metadata from OZON for website changes. Close tickets: 1300383
• Subsetting embedded fonts: Fix an error when subsetting embedded fonts on windows if the username contains quotes or apostrophes. Close tickets: 1316533
• Edit Book: Fix error when checking spelling if one of the files in the book declares an invalid (empty) language code. Close tickets: 1316170
• Linux install: Have the caliber GUI programs redirect stdout and stderr to null when launched via .desktop files to workaround systems where the GUI launchers are broken. Close 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. Close tickets: 1317543

Improved news sources

• Various Japanese news sources
• National Geographic