Download Caliber 0.8.43

After the birth of a daughter for the developer of Caliber briefly caused a hitch, the schedule of the weekly release on Friday seems to have been picked up again. Caliber is an open source and cross platform e-book management tool. Among other things, it can copy e-books to and from readers and convert them to make them suitable for the various types of e-readers. It can also convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS to e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 0.8.43 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• Template language: Speedup evaluation of general program mode templates by pre-compiling them to python. If you experience errors with this optimization, you can turn it off via Preferences->Tweaks. Also other miscellaneous optimizations in evaluating templates with composite columns.
• MOBI Output: Add an option to not convert all images to JPEG when creating MOBI files. For maximum compatibility of the produced MOBI files, do not use this option.
• Add iPad3 Output Profile

Bug Fixes

• KF8 Input: Add support for KF8 files with obfuscated embedded fonts
• Make the stars in the book list a little larger on windows >= vista
• Revised periodical Section layout, for touchscreen devices resolving iBooks problem with tables spanning multiple pages
• Read dc:contributor metadata from MOBI files
• MOBI Output: Fix a regression that caused the generated thumbnail embedded in caliber produced MOBI files to be a large, low quality image instead of a small, high quality image. You would have been affected by this bug only if you directly used the output from caliber, without exporting it via send to device or save to disk.
• KF8 Input: Recognize OpenType embedded fonts as well.
• Fix regression in 0.8.41 that caused file:/// URLs to stop working in the news download system on windows.
• When setting metadata in MOBI files fix cover not being updated if the mobi file has its first image record as the cover
• Fix column coloring rules based on the size column not working

New news sources

• SatMagazine by kiavash

Improved news sources

• Microwaves and RF
• idg.se

Caliber screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.