Software-update: Calibre 2.7.0

De zevende update van Calibre versie 2.0 is uitgekomen. Calibre is een opensource- en crossplatform- e-bookbeheerprogramma. Het kan onder andere alle relevante informatie en kaftafbeeldingen opzoeken, en e-boeken converteren om ze geschikt te maken voor de diverse soorten e-readers.

Verder kan het programma kranten, tijdschriften en nieuwsartikelen op basis van rss-feeds omzetten in e-bookformaat, en kunnen er boeken worden aangeschaft bij de bekende webwinkels. In versie 2.0 is onder meer overgestapt op Qt5 voor de gebruikersinterface en zijn er verbeteringen met Android-devices onder OS X. In versie 2.7.0 zijn verder nog de volgende veranderingen en verbeteringen doorgevoerd:

New Features

• Support for the new Kindle Voyage.
• The notification for the completion of background jobs, such as bulk metadata download, has been redesigned to not interrupt your work. It now waits in the lower right corner of the main window until you are ready to deal with it. Closes tickets: 1382795.
• Insert metadata as jacket page: Make the invisible tags used for searching across books format better, by giving them their own table row.
• Book details panel: Show custom column values for numeric columns even when the value is zero.
• Allow clearing of date and number type fields by right clicking and choosing clear when editing the fields in the book list or edit metadata dialog.

Bug Fixes

• MOBI/AZW3 Output: When converting an EPUB document that specifies an SVG image as its cover image, convert the cover to JPEG as the Kindle cannot handle SVG cover images. Closes tickets: 1384375.
• AZW3 Input: Fix crash when processing AZW3 files that contain certain SVG images dies to a bug in ImageMagick. Closes tickets: 1384375.
• Conversion: Ignore un-parseable links when trying to generate ToC from links, instead of aborting the conversion. Closes tickets: 1383365.
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix window title not changing when using the Next/previous buttons if the books being edited have the same title. Closes tickets: 1383014.
• Fix regression in previous release that prevented arrow keys/tab key from working in completion popups on OSX. Closes tickets: 1382633.

Improved news sources

• Folha de Sao Paolo
• LWN Weekly