Download Caliber 0.9.5

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 to e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. The changelog of release 0.9.5 looks like this:

New Features

• Font embedding: Add support for the CSS 3 Fonts module, which means you can embed font families that have more that the usual four faces, with the full set of font-stretch and font-weight variations. Of course, whether the fonts actually show up on a reader will depend on the readers’ support for CSS 3.
  Sharing by email: Allow specifying an ‘alias’ or friendly name by which to identify each email recipient.
• Embedding fonts: Allow adding ttf/otf font files to caliber directly to be used for embedding. That way the fonts do not have to be installed system wide. You can add a font to caliber via the ‘Add fonts’ button in the font chooser dialog for embedding fonts.
• E-book viewer: Add the ability to rotate images to the popup image viewer.
• Generate cover: Speedup searching the system for a font that can render special characters
• A new custom font scanner to locate all fonts on the system. Faster and less crash prone that fontconfig/freetype
• Font family chooser: Show the faces available for a family when clicking on the family

Bug Fixes

• Get Books: Fix eHarlequin and Kobo stores.
• Kobo driver: Fix a bug that could cause the on device book matching to fail in certain circumstances.
• Kobo driver: When using a SD card do not delete shelves that contain on books on the card (there might be books in the shelf in the main memory).
• Workaround for bug in the windows API CreateHardLink function that breaks using caliber libraries on some networked filesystems.
• Template editor: Use dummy metadata instead of blank/unknown values
• Windows: abort setting of title/author if any of the books’ files are in use. Results in less surprising behavior than before, when the title/author would be changed, but the on disk location would not.

New news sources

• Pravda in english, italian and portuguese by Darko Miletic
• Delco Times by Krittika Goyal

Improved news sources

• Financial Times UK
• Science AAAS
• The Atlantic