Calibre是电子书管理软件，支持Amazon、Apple、Bookeen、Ectaco、Endless Ideas、Google/HTC、Hanlin Song设备及格式，功能十分强大。
Calibre 2.5 发布，此版本现已提供下载，更新内容如下：
新特性
E-book viewer: Allow changing the website that is used as a dictionary for looking up words in the viewer. Click the Preferences button in the viewer and choose the dictionaries tab to customize the website.
Edit book/Book polishing: When embedding fonts or subsetting embedded fonts, handle the :first-letter and :first-line pseudo-element style rules.
Closes tickets: 1373649
Windows driver for Trekstor Pyrus 2 LED.
Closes tickets: 1376018
Bug 修复
Fix a typo preventing calibre from recognizing the new Kobo Aura H2O
Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replaced words coming back into the list when toggling the "Show only misspelled words" setting
Edit Book: Spell Check: Fix replacing a word with multiple words causing the replacements to show up erroneously in the list of misspelled words
Closes tickets: 1370294
Edit Book: Fix leading or trailing hyphens on words being ignored when spell checking.
Closes tickets: 1370288
E-book viewer: Fix a regression, caused by a Qt 5 behavior change, that caused incorrect colors to be shown when viewing MOBI files that use CSS 3 color specifications internally.
MOBI Output: Handle input documents that use CSS 3 syntax for colors by converting the color to the #RRGGBB format required for MOBI
Tag Browser: Fix drag and drop of books onto a language not setting the language.
Closes tickets: 1373504
Tag Browser: When renaming an item that is currently being searched for, remove the search indicator, as the search will no longer match the renamed item.
Closes tickets: 1374624
Bulk metadata edit: Fix getting cover from EPUB files that have no cover image by rendering the first page as the cover not working.
Closes tickets: 1374243
Custom cover generation: Fix disabled color schemes not being saved
Closes tickets: 1374337
Wireless device driver: Fix a regression in 2.4 that caused book matching to run slowly when connecting to calibre companion
新闻资源改进
Sueddeutsche Zeitung
The Hindu
Carta
更多内容请看发行说明。
之前版本改进记录
Calibre 2.4 [25 Sep, 2014]
新特性
An all new random cover generation algorithm, which generates covers using many different color schemes and cover styles
Now when you click the Generate cover button in the Edit Metadata dialog a cover based on the book metadata is generated using random colors and styles. You can customize the random cover generation by long clicking the Generate Cover button, which will popup a dialog where you can create new color schemes and customize other aspects of the generated cover as well.
Edit Book: Redesign the saved searches pop-up as a dockable window. Editing saved searches now happens inline and the global search/replace keyboard shortcuts work in the saved searches window
Edit book: Change the text of the 'Mark selected text' menu entry depending on whether it will mark or unmark the text
Edit metadata dialog: Allow undoing a metadata download by long-clicking the Download metadata button and choosing "Undo last metadata download"
Edit metadata dialog: Allow undoing the changes to individual fields by right clicking on the field and selecting Undo after a metadata download.
Closes tickets: 1223367
Download metadata dialog: Allow using Enter key to select cover and left/right keys to move between metadata results.
Closes tickets: 1369178
Fix the row numbers in the book list remaining wide when switching libraries if some books were marked before the switch.
Closes tickets: 1369152
Fix keyboard focus not going to cover grid after doing a search.
Closes tickets: 1369160
DOCX Input: Support for the keepNext paragraph property to keep successive paragraphs on the same page.
Template language: New template functions: raw_list() to return the items in a list such as tags without any sorting/formatting applied to them; author_sorts() to return the author sort strings from the authors table for the authors in the book.
Bug 修复
Fix a regression in 2.3 that broke creation of collections on the device when metadata management was set to manual.
Closes tickets: 1371976
E-book viewer: Fix displaying multiple pages per screen not working in calibre 2.x with some books, due to a change in Qt 5.
Closes tickets: 1372066
E-book viewer: Fix unintuitive behavior of back and forward buttons when going all the way back to the first item in the history.
Closes tickets: 1367992
Conversion: Do not allow default (user-agent) style rules to ever override style rules defined in the input document, regardless of CSS selector specificity.
Closes tickets: 1369753
Workaround for Qt 5 regression that broke selecting multiple icons in Preferences->Column icon rules
Fix tags with angle brackets not being displayed in the Book Details panel
新的新闻资源
Hurriyet Daily News and Al Monitor by spswerling
VICE News by Adrian Tennessee
Jagran Josh by Krittika Goyal
新闻资源改进
Today's Zaman
Wall Street Journal
High Country News
Calibre 2.3 [11 Sep, 2014]
New Features
Cover Grid: Dynamically adjust the size of the in memory cover thumbnail cache based on the window size to ensure flicker free rendering even on very large screens.
Closes tickets: 1367211
Template tester: Remember last used template
Get Books: When downloading books show a popup message telling the user that the books will be added to the calibre library automatically, to help new users understand what is happening. The popup message can be disabled.
E-book viewer: Try to detect when a chapter has a page break before the start of the chapter's text resulting in a leading blank page and override the page break.
Closes tickets: 1366074
Bug Fixes
Edit metadata dialog: Fix the author sort field not being marked red initially when the author sort does not match the author due to a Qt 5 behavior change.
Closes tickets: 1367943
OS X: Fix restarting of calibre not working if calibre.app is placed in a location with spaces in the path
Fix regression that caused calibre running in debug mode on OS X to not have a menubar or dock icon
Get Books: Fix downloading ebooks from Project Gutenberg via the builtin browser not working because of changes to the Project Gutenberg website.
Closes tickets: 1366240
Get Books: Update Gutenberg plugin for changes to the Project Gutenberg website.
Closes tickets: 1366245
Improved news sources
Strategy+Business
Dawn
American Thinker
Anchorage Daily News
Financial Times
Calibre 2.2 [05 Sep, 2014]
New Features
Kindle driver: Add option to not overwrite existing page number (apnx) files on the device when sending books to the device
Kindle driver: Add option to allow customization of the page number (apnx) generation algorithm based on values in a custom column
Metadata jacket: Allow customizing the jacket template to show the tags in alphabetical order
View specific format window: If a conversion finishes in the background making a new format available, update the window.
Closes tickets: 1363416
E-book viewer: Automatically hide the mouse cursor if the mouse has not been used for a few seconds. This prevents the mouse cursor from obscuring text underneath it. The cursor will reappear automatically when you move the mouse.
Driver for SurfPad 3.
Closes tickets: 1363025
Bug Fixes
Conversion: Fix incorrect conversion of CSS when the input document uses the same CSS class name in both upper and lower case.
Closes tickets: 1328552
Workaround for Qt 5 behavior change on OS X which prevented error handling during startup on OS X to not work
DOCX Input: Fix non-breaking hyphens being ignored
Workaround for Qt 5 bug that causes text copied to the clipboard to be lost when quitting the viewer on windows.
When detecting the encoding of HTML documents, if the document contains multiple charset declarations, prefer the HTML 5 syntax to the HTML 4 syntax.
Closes tickets: 1364961
E-book viewer: Fix text not being reflowed when resizing the viewer window and only the height changes.
Fix merging of book records not working correctly for custom columns of type text with fixed set of permitted values. Null values were incorrectly overwriting non-null values.
Creation of custom news sources failing on a computer on which no custom news sources have been previously created.
Closes tickets: 1363666
Workaround for Qt 5 on windows bug that makes the selected indication for items in any list/table disappear when the widget loses focus
Closes tickets: 1363420
Fix regression in 2.1 that prevented the saved column layout from being applied.
Closes tickets: 1363470
Edit Book: Fix the Check Book tool leaking threads
Edit Book: Fix editor hanging when quitting during a background save operation and the save operation completes before the warning dialog is dismissed.
Closes tickets: 1363122
Fix a regression in calibre 2.0 that caused setting the value of a custom number column to zero via the book list to clear the field instead.
Closes tickets: 1363076
Check Book: Fix an error caused by empty style tags when auto-renaming mismatched font names.
Closes tickets: 1363028
When using the Embed Metadata or Polish Books tools to update metadata, fix custom columns values not being cleared in the book file even if they have been cleared in calibre
New news sources
The Hollywood Reporter by Darko Miletic
Improved news sources
Common Dreams
LA Times
Spektrum der Wissenschaft
cracked.com
Calibre 2.1 [29 Aug, 2014]
New Features
Prevent calibre from installing or running on Windows XP as there have been many reports of Qt 5 crashing on Windows XP and Windows XP is now no longer supported by Microsoft. If you are on Windows XP, please stay with calibre 1.48 until you are ready to upgrade your windows. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Kobo driver: Add support for new Kobo Aura H2O and firmware 3.8.0
Driver for HTC C.
Closes tickets: 1360678
Add a new tool to easily test templates. Go to Preferences->Toolbars to add the tool to one of the calibre toolbars.
Closes tickets: 1360550
EPUB and MOBI catalog generation: Allow using the full template language including all custom columns
Bug Fixes
E-book viewer: Fix soft-hyphens causing rendering artifacts with some fonts due to a bug in Qt 5
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 bug that causes the popup menu on the author to author sort button in the edit metadata dialog to not respond if the mouse button if not released once before clicking menu entries.
Closes tickets: 1362338
Book list: Fix Ctrl+Home/End not selecting the first/last book
PDF Output: Fix header and footer templates not working in calibre 2.0
Closes tickets: 1361483
OS X: Workaround for Qt 5 bug that caused many keyboard shortcuts to not work in OS X
Workaround for Qt 5 regression causing custom colors in color chooser dialogs to not be remembered between calibre sessions
Conversion: Fix error when converting EPUB/HTML files that contain invalid margin or padding declarations.
Closes tickets: 1360842
Fix for calibre 2.0 crashing on startup on some linux systems when used with --detach
E-book viewer: When right clicking on an image to view it in its own popup window, fix the rotate button not working correctly with the zoom buttons
Workaround for Qt 5 bug causing crash when running jobs (conversion to PDF or MOBI; reading metadata from an EPUB without a cover) that require Qt WebKit on Ubuntu.
Closes tickets: 1360693
OS X: Fix background jobs stealing input focus if they require the use of Qt WebKit
Preferences->Metadata plugboards: Show plugboards for disabled devices and formats whose metadata writer plugins have been disabled.
Closes tickets: 1360766
Fix calibre 2.0 not using system color scheme on windows and OS X
Fix regression in calibre 2.0 that caused crashes when using drag and drop to re-order virtual library tabs
Linux: Disable the optional system tray icon because of bugs in the system tray icon implementation in Qt 5 on linux.
Closes tickets: 1360652
E-book viewer: Fix navigating to a bookmark not updating the displayed page number.
Closes tickets: 1360621
Fix the 'unified title and toolbar on OS X' tweak causing calibre to fail to work because of a bug in PyQt5
E-book viewer: Fix a regression in 2.0 that changed the speed of scrolling with the mouse wheel in flow mode
Edit book: Workaround for regression in Qt 5 that causes typing the Cmd+some letter to generate text in the editor instead of being ignored.
Book polishing: Fix EPUB files with corrupted ZIP central directories not working and leaving behind detritus in the current working directory.
Closes tickets: 1360385
Edit Book: Workaround for Qt 5 regression that caused the 'See what changed' tool to freeze the editor when closing the window showing the changes.
Fix regression in 2.0 that broke viewing of LRF format ebooks.
Closes tickets: 1360332
Fix for a Qt 5 regression that caused the Copy to Library right click menu to be empty on OS X.
Closes tickets: 1360069
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