A new update for Calibre has been made available

Apr 17, 2015 07:28 GMT  ·  By

Calibre, a complete application to edit, view, and convert eBook files, has been updated yet again, and the developer has added a number of new features and various other fixes.

The weekly release schedule for Calibre doesn't seem to be slowing down, and the developer of this great app is still finding new features to add and problems to fix. In his defense, this is a very complex application and there are a ton of moving parts. It's hard to make everything work flawlessly, but he's pretty close to the goal.

Calibre is already very stable and all of the functions implemented work very well, but the community is always contributing by noticing missing features or small bugs, so the work never really stops. Each changelog is impressive and is rarely boring.

Calibre 2.25 brings some cool modifications

One of the issues that haven't been fixed or improved yet is the update process, which is actually completely missing. Unless they installed the application from a repository, which would make the upgrade a simple task, users will need to re-install the application each time. As new versions are released almost on a weekly basis, you might understand why this is an annoyance.

"Make embedding fonts using the manage fonts dialog easier. You can now double click on a font family to see what faces for that family area available on your computer and install new fonts directly from the dialog," is noted in the official announcement.

Also, according to the changelog, it's now possible to expand or collapse all the items in the Table of Contents view by right-clicking, an API has been added in order to allow recipe writers to easily resolve internal links to point to the downloaded versions of articles, and support has been added for DOCX files created by Word 2013 in "Strict" mode.

More details about this latest release can be found on the official website. You can also download the Calibre 2.25 source package from Softpedia, if you want to compile it yourself. We also have a comprehensive review of Calibre.