Calibre eBook Management Software Technology

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New Features​

• E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine.
• A new busy spinner for waiting animations
• Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

Bug Fixes​

• PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine (full fix is in 5.7.1).
• PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag.
  
  • Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.
  • AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.
  • Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.
  • Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes.
  • Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
  • Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.
  • Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
  • Fix regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash.

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• E-book viewer: Add a "Read aloud" function that works via the operating system's Text-to-speech engine.
• A new busy spinner for waiting animations
• Edit metadata: Add buttons to easily set yes/no fields also shortcut to clear the field.

Bug Fixes​

• PDF Output: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke text rendering for some fonts due to a bug in Qt WebEngine (full fix is in 5.7.2).
• PDF Output: Fix conversion failing when adding header/footer and the input document defines margins/padding on the tag.
  
  • Windows: Fix the case of library names in copied calibre:// links sometimes incorrect.
  • AZW3 Input: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke processing of files with inline flow replacements.
  • Fix hiding and showing book details panel changes its size by a pixel or two.
  • Get books: Fix amazon.fr not working because of website changes.
  • Bulk metadata search/replace: Fix text transform function not being applied to the test result in character mode
  • Book list: Improve rendering of column headers when they dont fit, by eliding them instead of just cutting off rendering.
  • Fix template function "first_non_empty" fails if no argument evaluates non-empty
  • Fix regression in 5.7.0 causing failure to start if one of the previously used libraries had a stored path ending in a slash.

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Happy holidays to all calibre users!
• E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+f)
• Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
• Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
• Content server viewer: Don't enter fullscreen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
• E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
• Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
• Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

Bug Fixes​

• Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
• E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
• AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.
• E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
• Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
• PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
• Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the auto or google server because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Happy holidays to all calibre users!
• E-book Viewer: Add a mode to follow links with only the keyboard (triggered by Alt+F)
• Edit book: A new option to show a configurable number lines above the current line when syncing the position of the preview panel to the current position in the code editor (under Preview settings in the Editor preferences).
• Windows: Automatically resolve shortcuts (.lnk files) when adding books to calibre.
• Content server viewer: Don't enter full screen mode automatically when reading on desktop like devices (this can be controlled via a setting in the viewer preferences under Page layout)
• E-book Viewer tool bar: Add a select all action and a Read aloud action (can be added by right clicking the tool bar and configuring it)
• Template/formatter enhancements: Add a 'for' statement and add the ability for a developer to pass extra information to a template.
• Rules editors for icon/coloring rules: Add a button to duplicate rules and to convert a rule to advanced template mode

Bug Fixes​

• Content server viewer: Fix regression in 5.0 that broke scrolling on iOS
• E-book viewer: Fix error when scrolling to some search results in flow mode
• AZW3 Input: Fix rare AID based links not working.
• E-book viewer: Fix clock in header/footer not using system time format
• Windows: Fix Read aloud not working with books that have a single large internal text file, such as MOBI or DOCX books
• PDF Output: Fix a regression causing conversion to fail when typesetting Chinese text
• Amazon metadata download: Fix no results being found when using the automatic or Google servers because of a change in the markup of the Google search results page.
• Version 5.8.1 fixes a couple of regressions that broke the Save to disk function and changing Page layout settings in the viewer.

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Annotations: Allow exporting highlights and bookmarks in Markdown format, with a link to open the book at the highlight location
• Content server viewer: Allow exporting all highlights
• Icon rules editor: Add a button to open the icons folder
• Quickview: Dropdown menu for all selectable columns

Bug Fixes​

• Fix a regression that caused the Content server to crash if a client closed a connection during a file transfer on macOS and Linux.
• LRF Output: Fix conversion broken in calibre 5 when font size rescaling is active
• E-book viewer: Cancel any speech in progress when hiding the selection popup bar after triggering the speak aloud action on it
• Color/icon rules editor: Fix duplicate rule button not working correctly
• Fix dropping files onto book details causing an error if the confirmation dialog is disabled

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
• Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
• E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies thecurrently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
• Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
• Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
• calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
• E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
• E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
• Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognizecommon surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
• E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
• PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
• Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
• E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
• Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
• calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Bulk metadata edit: Add a new control to compress the cover image files for all selected books
• Add support for the CB7 comic file file format
• E-book viewer: Allow adding a button to the selection bar that copies the currently selected text along with a calibre:// URL to show the text in the book
• Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow showing identifiers such as ISBN in the jacket page template
• Conversion: Insert metadata: Allow hiding entries in the jacket template when they are not present in the metadata
• calibre-server --manage-users: Add a scriptable interface: calibre-server --manage-users -- help
• E-book viewer: Add keyboard shortcuts to copy the current location to the clipboard
• E-book viewer: Highlight all currently visible Table of Contents entries, not just the first
• Add a new tweak under Preferences->Tweaks->Author sort name algorithm to optionally recognize common surname prefixes such as von, van, de, etc. when generating sort names.

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Move read aloud pop-up bar to the bottom of the screen in flow mode
• E-book viewer: Fix scrolling with two fingers on touch pad on macOS not smooth
• PDF Output: When converting fixed layout input documents fix anchors inserted for navigation sometimes being rendered as blue boxes
• Edit book: Remove unused CSS: Fix selectors that don't match from CSS rules containing multiple selectors not being removed
• Bulk metadata download: Fix series number not being changes if the series is the same as the existing series
• E-book viewer: Fix a regression that caused non-HTML descriptions to not be displayed in the metadata page
• E-book viewer: Fix clock being displayed in 24 hr format on some systems even though system locale is set to use 12 hr format.
• Bulk metadata edit: Fix regression that inverted the meaning of the case sensitivity setting in the Search & replace tab
• calibredb list: Fix incorrect output when redirecting to file
• 5.10.1 fixes a regression in 5.10.0 that broke conversion when including metadata as a jacket page and using long text custom columns

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• Edit book: Add a tool to split the tag at the current cursor position, creating a new tag with the same style and class attributes. To add the tool go to the Toolbars section in the editor preferences
• E-book viewer: Show the URL when hovering over external links
• E-book viewer: Redesign the reference mode to also work on touch screens without a mouse. Now in reference mode paragraph numbers are displayed for all paragraphs
• Edit book: Allow Ctrl-clicking on class names to jump to the first style rule that matches the tag and class
• Content server: When browsing highlights for a book allow selecting multiple highlights to delete or export quickly
• Allow creating keyboard shortcuts to copy show and view URLs for selected books to clipboard
• calibredb: Add a timeout option to control the timeout when connecting to the calibre server

Bug Fixes​

• Content server: Fix dragging selection handles not working in Safari
• E-book viewer: Fix links with a href of "#" not working
• E-book viewer: Hide the controls when clicking the back or forward buttons
• E-book viewer: When jumping to a highlight using the highlights panel, the back button should return to position before jump
• E-book viewer: Fix incorrect tooltip when hovering over a section title in the search results list
• HTMLZ Output: Fix a regression in calibre 5 that broke creating HTMLZ documents when using the option to place CSS inline

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• E-book viewer: When searching start the search from the current position, jumping to the first match at or after the current page
• E-book viewer: Have the Table of Contents view automatically scroll to keep the chapter being read currently visible
• Various improvements to the calibre template language, see Template language changes - MobileRead Forums
• Edit book: File browser: Show total size of items in category when hovering over category with mouse
• Kobo driver: Add support for latest firmware and also an option to choose the color used for cover letterboxing

Bug Fixes​

• E-book viewer: Fix selection popup bar sometimes going off screen when dragging up to the top line of text
• Get books: Update the Biblio and Chitanka stores for website changes
• Edit book: Fix editing of JavaScript files not working

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[TechNikAl]

New Features​

• E-book Viewer: Allow editing the current book by pressing Ctrl+d or adding a button for it to the viewer tool bar
• Edit book: Add a command line flag to allow selecting the specified text when opening a book
• Edit metadata dialog: When trimming covers, show the size of the current trim region

Bug Fixes​

• Fix a regression in the previous release that broke sending of emails with text longer than 900 characters
• E-book viewer: Fix using keyboard to extend selection not turning pages
• Fix searching for items from the Manage dialog not working correctly
• PDF input: Replace paragraph separator characters with spaces

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