Download Caliber 2.72

Version 2.72 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. Books can also be purchased with Caliber at the well-known web stores. The program is under active development and a new version is usually released every other week on Friday. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• Font embedding: Implement automatic embedding for fonts with non-normal stretch and weight values ​​such as Condensed/Light/Extra Bold fonts
• Allow aborting an in-progress Copy-to-library action. Close tickets: 1641458
• Edit Book: When adding a font file via File->New automatically generate the appropriate @font-face rule and copy it to the clipboard so that it can be easily inserted into the appropriate CSS files.
• Edit Book: Check Book: Add a warning for links with the : character in them on windows
• Conversion: When converting markdown documents recognize basic metadata in the markdown document formatted as per the markdown metadata extension.
• Edit Book: Spell Check dialog: Various small usability enhancements — preserve position in word list on refresh, ensure that new current word is highlighted after changing a word, etc.
• Edit Book: Flash the taskbar icon after beautify all files completes. Close tickets: 1639024

Bug Fixes

• Fix creating an empty library with the same structure as current library not creating custom columns on the first restart after creating the new custom columns.Closes tickets: 1641278
• Edit Book: Dont fail to rename files on windows if there is a link containing the colon character. Close tickets: 1641202
• PDF Output: Dont fail if one of the embedded fonts has no names
• Edit Book: When downloading external resources, ensure the generated filenames are valid. Close tickets: 1639448
• Windows: Fix file extension not being added automatically when missing in save dialogs. Close tickets: 1637353
• Fix caliber not opening full screen in windows tablet mode. Close tickets: 1638158
• Edit Book: Fix check external links tool not detecting changes that have not yet been saved
• Generate covers: Fix & in the series causing incorrect formatting of series number. Close tickets: 1638759
• Edit Book: Fix a regression in the last release that broke the Arrange into folders tool when arranging into sub-folders of a folder that does not exist.

Improved news sources

• media part