Download Caliber 2.19

Version 2.19 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. Furthermore, the program can convert newspapers, magazines and news articles based on RSS feeds into e-book format, and books can be purchased from well-known web stores. In version 2.0 has, among other things, moved to Qt5 for the user interface and there are improvements for Android devices that dock with OS X. The following changes and improvements have also been made in this release:

New Features

• Quick view window: Allow the quickview window to be docked into the main caliber window. Close tickets: 1415714
• Add empty book: Allow setting the title as well as the author and series for the added empty book records.
• Windows driver for Grammata Papyre 602. Closes tickets: 1418207
• Edit Book: Add an option to turn off auto-completion of closing tags
• Allow adding a description for custom columns. Close tickets: 1417219
• Book Details panel: Allow any identifier of the form url+number to become a clickable link. For example: url1:

Bug Fixes

• Conversion: Convert entities that reference non-BMP unicode codepoints on Windows and OS X correctly. Linux was not affected by this bug. Close tickets: 1417327
• Edit Book: Do not autocomplete the closing tag wen typing the / key inside an existing tag. Close tickets: 1417700
• Fix Booken Lev e-book reader not being detected in OS X and Linux. Close tickets: 1417325
• DOCX Input: Change handling of sequences of space characters to more closely follow Microsoft Word.
• Edit Book: Fix Table of Contents editor not remembering its saved state across caliber sessions.
• Edit book: Disallow drag and drop of documents onto the preview panel to workaround crashing bug in Qt. Close tickets: 1416752
• E-book viewer: Fix current page not being preserved when opening and then immediately closing the footnote window. Close tickets: 1416526
• PDF Output: Fix incorrect encoding for some chinese characters in the PDF Outline (Table of Contents). Close tickets: 1416222

Improved news sources

• FAZ.net
• Indian Express
• CNN