Download Caliber 0.8.67

Like almost every Friday, a new version of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source and cross platform ebook management program. 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 feeds into e-book format and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.8.67 looks like this:

New Features

• PDF Output: Generate a PDF Outline based on the Table of Contents of the input document
• Conversion: Add an option under Structure Detection to set the ‘Start reading at’ metadata with an XPath expression.
• Speed ​​up changing the title and author of files with books larger than 3MB by avoiding an unnecessary extra copy.
• Wireless device driver: Make detecting and connecting to devices easier on networks where mdns is disabled
• PDF Output: Allow choosing the default font family and size when generating PDF files (under PDF Options) in the conversion dialog
• Metadata dialog: Comments editor: Allow specifying the name of a link when using the insert link button.
• Remove the unmaintained pdfmanipulate command line utility. There are many other tools that provide similar functionality, for example, pdftk and podofo

Bug Fixes

• Catalogs: Fix regression that broke sorting of non series titles before series titles
• PDF Output: Do not create duplicate embedded fonts in the PDF for every individual HTML file in the input document
• Fix regression that broke DnD of files having a # character in their names to the book details panel
• PDF Output: Allow generating PDF files with more than 512 pages on windows.
• Fix minor bug in handling of the completion popups when using the next/previous buttons in the edit metadata dialog

New news sources

• Cumhuriyet Yzarlar by Sethi Eksi
• Arcadia by Masahiro Hasegawa
• Business Week Magazine and Chronicle of Higher Education by Rick Shang
• CIPER Chile by Darko Miletic

Improved news sources

• Coding Horror
• TIME Magazine

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