Download Caliber 0.8.57

A new version of Caliber is released almost every Friday and today there is no deviating from it. 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 0.8.57 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New Features

• PDF Output: Full pagination support. No more cut-off bottom line.
  Fixes a long standing bug in caliber’s PDF Output that caused the bottom line of some pages to be partially cut off and prevented top and bottom margins from working.
• calibredb add now prints out the ids of added books
• Kobo Vox driver: Add support for new Google Play firmware
• Driver for Prestigio PMP5097PRO
• Add option to disable tooltips in the book list under Preferences->Look & Feel
• When customizing builtin recipes download the latest version of the recipe to customize instead of using the possibly out of date bundled version

Bug Fixes

• PDF Output: Use the cover from the input document when no cover is specified during a conversion
• E-book Viewer: Printing now has proper pagination with top and bottom margins no lines partially cut-off at the bottom and full style retention
• KF8 Input: Handle files with incorrectly encoded guide type entries.
• E-book viewer: Disable hyphenation on windows xp as Qt WebKit barfs on soft hyphens on windows XP
• Handle OS X systems with invalid palette colors.
• Tag Browser: Fix regression that broke partitioning of hierarchical categories.
• LRF Output: Handle negative page margins
• Template language: Fix arithmetic functions to tolerate the value ‘None’ as returned by raw_field()
• Fix custom title sort set in the edit metadata dialog getting reset by the conversion dialog

New news sources

• Akter Daily by Darko MIletic
• BBC Brasil by Claviola
• Homopedia.pl by rainbowwarrior
• National Geographic Magazine by Terminal Veracity
• Something Awful by atordo
• Huffington Post UK by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• The Economist
• Acter
• 24 Sata sr
• Novi List
• Metro Montreal
• Fashion Durable
• canardPC
• The Economic Collapse
• Our Daily Bread

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