14 DAY TRIAL // Calibre 1.25, an eBook reader and management software developed for multiple platforms, including Linux, has been released.
Users tend to forget that Calibre can be employed in a lot more activities than just eBook editing or conversion. It's also capable of creating PDF files and this particular feature has just received a new update.
According to the developer, support has been implemented for reading and writing extended (XMP) metadata for PDF files.
“calibre can now read and write XMP metadata from PDF files. This means that all metadata that you can create in calibre, including custom columns, can be stored in the PDF files. It is also useful when importing PDF files created by some academic publishers, that sometimes have good XMP metadata, such as DOI identifiers, tags and so on,” reads the official announcement.
Highlights of Calibre 1.25:
• Users can now type arbitrary unicode characters with the keyboard in the editor; • Some performance improvements for the syntax highlighter that should make the editor noticeably more responsive while typing inside large HTML files have been implemented; • An error that occurs if more than 100 checkpoints are created has been fixed; • The splitting of the HTML file that was occurring at the wrong location, if the HTML contains invalid constructs like nested <p> tags, has been corrected; • The user is no longer allowed to perform the “search and replace” function until he enters a search expression; • The parsing of HTML 5 documents that are also valid XML but use non-namespaced inline svg has been corrected; • A regression that caused the program to stop responding when quitting via File->Quit has been fixed.
A lot more information can be found in the complete announcement, and you can also check out our review of Calibre.
Download Calibre 1.25 for Linux