Download Caliber 1.35

Version 1.35 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: Redesign the syntax highlighter to improve performance for large documents and extended editing sessions. Close tickets: 1314339
• Edit book: Make cursor movement smooth by not highlighting matching tags while the cursor is moving. Only match highlighting tags if the cursor stays still for a time.
• Spellcheck dialog: Indicate whether a word is ignored in the Misspelled column
• Spellcheck dialog: Pressing Ctrl+C on the words list copies only selected words, regardless of current cell
• Add a copy to clipboard action to the context menu for the spell check dialog
• Edit book: Fix save button incorrectly disabled after a failed save. Close tickets: 1313567

Bug Fixes

• Edit Book: Fix an error when merging CSS stylesheets that contain @charset rules
• Edit book: Fix extra invalid entries being generated in the manifest when editing an AZW3 file that has no images.
• Edit book: Fix a hang when editing an HTML or XML file with text of the form 1314009
• Fix regression that prevented the ebook editor from starting on linux systems with locale set to ‘C’. Close tickets: 1315064
• DOCX Input: Fix formatting of the generated Index when the index is complex, ie with lots of references to the same item, multiple level of sub-items, etc.
• Smarten punctuation: Fix a double quote preceded by a hyphen at the end of a sentence (before the start of the next tag) being converted into an opening quote instead of closing quote. Close tickets: 1286477
• News download: Fix very long URLs for links to pages causing errors on windows because of max path length restrictions. Close tickets: 1313982
• Edit book: Fix saved search dialog causing high CPU usage
• Edit book: Fix importing of Lithuanian dictionary from OpenOffice, that does not specify a country code. Close tickets: 1313315

Improved news sources

• Ars Technica
• Daily Mirror
• Birmingham Evening Mail
• NRC – Next
• Private Eye
• NZZ