Download Caliber 4.2.0

The second update for version 4.0 of Caliber has been released. Caliber is an open source ebook management program and is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. 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. In version 4.0 we find a completely renewed Content Server, there is a new ebook viewer and Qt WebKit has been replaced by Qt WebEngine. In version 4.2.0 the following changes and improvements have been made:

New features

• macOS: Various improvements to dark mode support.
• Viewer: Dont generate covers for books that dont have a cover. Note that because of this all previously opened books will again be prepared for first time reading.
• Viewer: Restore print to PDF functionality.
• Viewer: Allow also jumping to book positions in Goto->Location.
• Content server: When adding books and a duplicate is suspected provide more information about what books match the duplicate.
• FB2 Output: Speed ​​up conversion of images and handle external links.
• Viewer: If the book has no ToC try to generate one from headings, if any. Close tickets: 1847277.
• Viewer: Improve rendering of comics. No blank pages after large images or after every image in multi-page mode.
• Viewer: Make it easier to use the bookmarks panel with only keyboard. Close tickets: 1847423.
• Viewer: Set the classes caliber-viewer-paginated and caliber-viewer-scrolling on the tag in Paged and Flow modes. This allows the User styles to target these modes, if needed. Close tickets: 1847427.
• Viewer: Use the same loading spinner as is used by the rest of caliber.

Bug fixes

• Edit book: Fix a crash when editing CSS files caused by a behavior change in Qt 5.13. Close tickets: 1846760.
• Fix a regression in 4.0 that broke rendering of PDF covers for PDF files that used JPEG2000 compression. Close tickets: 1847567.
• Viewer: Fix a regression in 4.1 that broke creating new color schemes. Close tickets: 1847407.
• Viewer: Fix error while viewing books with a comment after a tag. Close tickets: 1847977.
• Viewer: Fix an error when processing a CFI with an invalid text offset. Close tickets: 1848320.
• Viewer: Fix scrolling backwards to previous chapter not always scrolling to the end of the chapter, if the chapter loads external resources. Close tickets: 1847818.
• Viewer: Fix hang on books with namespaced attributes on that do not belong to a known ebook namespace. Close tickets: 1846886.
• Viewer: Fix search history not persisting between viewer restarts. Close tickets: 1847976.
• Viewer: Fix scrollbar showing up on initial book open even if disabled in preferences. Close tickets: 1847323.
• Viewer: Fix rendering of books with mathematics failing
• Viewer: When changing between individual sections/chapters in the book, only render the new chapter after loading is complete
• Viewer: Fix scrolling by screenfuls not working correctly in flow mode
• EPUB 2 metadata: Fix obfuscated fonts being broken when updating metadata if the file uses Adobe font obfuscation and the identifier with the key has an uppercase UUID scheme name. Close tickets: 1847890.
• Viewer: Fix right clicking on margins not showing controls
• Viewer: Preselect text in search box when showing it. Close tickets: 1847677.
• Viewer: Fix SVG images that use xlink:rel=”external” href to refer to paths not being displayed. Close tickets: 1847181.
• Content server: Fix detection of iOS on iPAD with iOS 13 which defaults to desktop mode.
• Jacket metadata: Fix
  tags in the comments not being rendered correctly when inserting the comments into the jacket page. Close tickets: 1848327.
• Viewer: Show nicer error message for DRMed books. Close tickets: 1847468.
• Viewer: Fix preferences under Scrolling behavior not being saved correctly.
• Viewer: Fix remembered position sometimes off by one page in paged mode. Close tickets: 1847322.
• Viewer: restrict max size of margin page turn indicators to 25px rather than 75px.
• Viewer: Dont flash the home page before loading a book if a book has been specified.
• Viewer: Fix ctrl+m shortcut not working on windows.
• Content server: Fix regression that caused series name in book details view not not be blue to indicate it is clickable.

Improved news sources

• Various Polish news sources
• Il Sole 24 Orec