A lot of fixes and new features have been added in this version

Oct 26, 2012 07:40 GMT  ·  By

Version 0.9.4 of the e-book reader and management software Calibre was announced on October 26, marking an important milestone for this amazing software.

If you have an ebook reader, the Calibre software is a must. It does so many things for the avid reader, that it would take a lot of time to just enumerate all the features.

As usual, Calibre comes with a lot of new changes, but also with a novel option to embed a font family.

Highlights of Calibre 0.9.4:

• An option to embed a font family into the book, through conversion, has been added; • When changing the title/author of a book, the application now uses hard links instead of copying the books' files, for a large speedup. It only works on filesystems that support hardlinks; • Linux users can now resume interrupted downloads and verify the SHA-512 signature of the downloaded file before installing it; • The ondevice status has been fixed, on Kobo devices, for books that were getting lost; • A regression that broke use of prefix rules in catalogs has been fixed; • Sorting incorrect for accented letters in tab browser has been fixed; • The bundled Liberation fonts are now available on all platforms for embedding; • Mimetype are now used for fonts, from the EPUB 3 specification; • Get Books website changed and it broke the SONY Store plugin, but now it works properly; • If the default font cannot render characters in the metadata (for example, East Asian languages) users can try to automatically find a font on the system that is capable of rendering the characters; • A regression that broke certain types of CSS selectors has been repaired; • The application now uses font-weight:bold instead of font-weight:bolder for the tags, as ADE can’t handle bolder when embedded fonts are used.

A complete changelog can be found in the official announcement. You can also check out our review of Calibre.

Download Calibre 0.9.4 right now from Softpedia.