14 DAY TRIAL // Calibre, a software used for reading, managing, and converting eBooks, is now at version 1.40 and comes with a few very interesting features and numerous bug fixes.
Calibre is a software that serves many purposes and can be used as an eBook conversion tool, eBook reader, eBook editor, and much more. The developer of this application has focused his attention on the editor in the last few editions, but now he added a new tool to manage the fonts.
This new tool will allow users to easily change, remove, or embed fonts in the entire book. As usual, this new function can be found in Tools > Manage Fonts.
According to the developer, users can now allow the color of the links in the Live CSS panel to be themed, a keyboard shortcut is now available to bookmark current location, when the user is employing the auto-changing font name option to match the actual name in the font file the application will also change the font name in shorthand font declarations, and embedding all the referenced fonts that are only specified via the style attributes and not in any stylesheets is now working correctly.
Also, the normalization of CSS shorthand font property is now working properly when multiple font families are specified in the same shorthand property, the media type for html files is now set correctly when importing DOCX files, importing DOCX files that don't contain a Table of Contents is now possible, a crash that occurred if the user selected a destination for the portable install that does not have enough disk space has been fixed, and the SONY annotation app is now working with files sent to the device by Calibre.
If you’ve decided to compile your own build of Calibre, be warned. It has many dependencies and it can be quite tricky. Fortunately, the developer also provides a complete list of dependencies, if you feel brave enough. He also has a very handy way of installing the application by entering a single command in the terminal, which can be found in the download section.
If you don't want to compile Calibre on your own, the developer also provides a simple command line that takes care of the entire installation, making the whole process a lot smoother. You can also check out our review of Calibre and download Calibre 1.40 from Softpedia, but keep in mind that this is just the source.