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Originally Posted by Thunder_Struck
1) Calibre seems to take time converting my PDF books when I open them in the Calibre viewer (and sometimes this take a considerably long time). It also re-formats the pages, layout, etc. I did find one post that discussed a much earlier version of Calibre, and why the program did this. I was wondering if there was a work-around for this? Can I "turn off" the conversion process in some way, and just view the normal PDF "image"? I just want to view the standard PDF page (basically like an image). I like that Calibre allows me to open my PDF books with Adobe etc. But it would be great to have the ability to read my PDF volumes within Calibre. Any thoughts on this?
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There is an option to choose what formats are opened with the calibre viewer, and which are passed to the OS to open as it would. This is on the Behaviour page of the Preferences. The list under "Use internal viewer for" is what you want to look at.
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2) I have used metadata tagging software (such as ID3 tagging for MP3 files in great programs like Media Monkey) that allows one to rename the actual file being accessed based on selected elements in the file metadata, and based on user-selected information within the metadata (like artist, song title, date etc). I know Calibre makes a copy of the original PDF file and places it in its own program folder. But I would still like to quickly rename many of my original PDF files from within Calibre, and base these new names on the metadata (so actually performing two tasks at once). This helps for organization of my actual files, and saves renaming a PDF file as well as then acquiring metadata for that file. Can Calibre allow me to even access and rename the original PDF file without exiting the program? Even this would help.
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Not directly. But, once the book is in calibre, you can use the "Save to disk" to take a of it elsewhere. That uses a template to generate the file name from the metadata. You could save the book to the external storage location with the desired name. Maybe put the books into an intake directory, add to calibre, save-to-disk to permament store and remove from the input location? Doing this will change the file as calibre will update the metadata when during the save-to-disk.
Alternatively, you could add a custom column that uses the template to generate a name. Then copy the new name and rename to original file. That's the simplest thing I can think of if you want to keep the original file unchanged.