Beta testers for calibre 3.0 needed

[kovidgoyal]

Managed to fix the issue with iframe's being too large on firefox, as well.

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...05a604d1bb1dee

[BetterRed]

@Kovid - FTR - my screen shot was taken from Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit 607.

BR

[kovidgoyal]

@BR: You dont have a sizing issue -- some margin is going to be present when using HTML. See DD's post for an example of the sizing issue.

Your case is fixed by not using HTML for long text columns that have not been set to be interpreted as either HTML or markdown

[kovidgoyal]

@eschwartz: Wired up now and no manage users should not be excluded from the single instance lock, now fixed.

[BetterRed]

@Kovid - my Location column may just have a place name e.g. Izyum, or it may have a website But even if it is a just a place name it is still HTML, i.e.

<font face="Segoe UI, sans-serif" size="2">Izyum</font>
<a href="https://www.donauwalzer.at/en/"><b>Vienna - Hotel Donauwalzer</b></a>

Location is one of 8 HTML Heading on the side columns in my _Media library. Putting the Column name above will make for an untidy presentation, and it will send them to the bottom of the display. They are all almost invariably short, in fact shorter than the Plain text Came From column which is a most often a file path several levels deep in %appdata%\downloads

Another thing I've noticed is that the HTML Header on the side columns don't display in a consistent order.



This harks back to our earlier exchange

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@Kovid - what controls the columns displayed for a book when I click on it and I get the Read and Download buttons. It doesn't appear to equate with the Look & Feel->Book Details settings, nor with what I see in Book Information - the non-modal dialogue that shows everything, except empty columns.

My usage of the server is to look at an author's list of books and at the book metadata. My ideal would be to see the columns selected within the Look & Feel->Book Details tab, in the order nominated. With display time options for Show All and Show Empty Columns.

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@BR: At the moment, nothing. Sometime in the future I might make that configurable.
It's not clear to me that using the same settings as in the GUI is the right thing to do -- after all the use cases for the two may well be different. On the other hand, it seems silly to have multiple sets of settings for very similar things.

On the third hand, since the server can be run independently of the GUI, having it depend on configuration that can only be altered from the GUI is not a good idea.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I had the same thoughts in roughly the same order. I'd be happy to have a separate settings for GUI and Server. Especially if I can get Show all and empty values options - their lack often drives me to

BR

[kovidgoyal]

Released version 2.99.6 with the following changes:

• Allow per-library access restrictions using a search
• Make the book details page in the browser render the same way as in the GUI, including the order and excluded fields. In other words you can now control the displayed fields the same way as you do in the GUI (the setting is common to both server and GUI)
• First time the browser reader is shown on a device show a diagram of the basic controls
• Fix extra spacing around HTML items in Firefox in the book details page
• Show an error message right at the start when using browsers that are missing needed functionality
• Fix font for display of HTML fields different from rest of the interface font
• Fix drag and drop of items in the ToC editor causing the items to be reversed
• Fix deleting multiple user accounts causes an error
• Fix the Show more books button not respecting the current virtual library
• Fix library names being lowercased on windows on the home page
• Browser reader: Fix clicking links with no anchors not always scrolling to the top of the linked file
• More useful error page when reading book fails
• Browser reader: Fix incorrect rendering of page header on Go to and TOC overlay panels
• Prevent use of system Qt style on linux as it causes hangs/crashes
• Browser reader: Fix bottom margin content visible even on title page
• Browser reader: Fix wide covers being cut-off on the right
  

[Divingduck]

@Kovid +1
I am in the middle of my tests and I like this version.

[Divingduck]

Some smaller findings

Login:
When I close Web-GUI and browser window and then open the browser once more with a different user account, the Web-GUI shows the old library restriction list from previous logged user. Afer an additional manual refresh the new library view will be shown. Firefox 53.0.2 (64-Bit)

Web-Viewer:
Preferences page layout: orientation landscape/portrait seems interchanged.
Question: Change the maximum screen area used to display text - what is the measurement (%)?
PDF:
The PDF-Engine is - how do I say it? - not the best solution. I really whish, you could find in long-therm something better for the WEB-GUI. It works more or less for plain text, but fails very often for technical or more structured PDF documents.
Is it maybe possible to prevent the viewer engine to split bigger pictures within a PDF in to small and then often oversized pieces?

EPUB:
It seems that small pictures like picture symbols in a book will shown oversized. See picture for an example. Page setup was two pages. In the below right area shows the same view with GUI-viewer.

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@eschwartz: Wired up now and no manage users should not be excluded from the single instance lock, now fixed.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Divingduck

PDF:
The PDF-Engine is - how do I say it? - not the best solution. I really whish, you could find in long-therm something better for the WEB-GUI. It works more or less for plain text, but fails very often for technical or more structured PDF documents.
Is it maybe possible to prevent the viewer engine to split bigger pictures within a PDF in to small and then often oversized pieces?

This is nothing new, the PDF-to-EPUB conversion has always sucked and that is what the E-Book Viewer and now the in-server reader do under-the-hood to prepare a book for reading.

I suggest you download it instead, depending on how the download is implemented your browser may be clever enough to open the PDF file in the builtin PDF viewer that most browsers have.

[Divingduck]

@eschwartz, Yes, I know. That's what I did and argument too since long time
But honestly, it is a/my long-therm whish because of the new server and an independent view for PDF's w/o taking care of subsystems. Maybe a too big whish, but something I like to keep up every couple of years

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by Divingduck

Login:
When I close Web-GUI and browser window and then open the browser once more with a different user account, the Web-GUI shows the old library restriction list from previous logged user. Afer an additional manual refresh the new library view will be shown. Firefox 53.0.2 (64-Bit)

Yeah, basically different users using the same browser instance is not really a supported use case. This is because the server caches lots of things int he browser for performance and offline viewing. As such, trying to ensure everything is purged after changing users is too much work.

Preferences page layout: orientation landscape/portrait seems interchanged.

Seems correct to me. Landscape orientation means when the window width > window height. Portrait is vice versa.

Change the maximum screen area used to display text - what is the measurement (%)?

IIRC it is pixels, I should add a note.

EPUB:
It seems that small pictures like picture symbols in a book will shown oversized. See picture for an example. Page setup was two pages. In the below right area shows the same view with GUI-viewer.

I need an epub showing this behavior.

[Divingduck]

@Kovid,
EPUB is on the way as bug report. Pls. see PM

Regarding orientation, this is what make me a bit confused:
If I set:

• portrait orientation = 0, landscape orientation =0, I see 3 pages side by side
• portrait orientation = 6, landscape orientation =0, I see 2 pages side by side like a open book
• portrait orientation = 1, landscape orientation =0, I see 2 pages side by side like a open book
• portrait orientation = 0, landscape orientation =1, I see 1 page
• portrait orientation = 0, landscape orientation =2, I see 2 pages side by side like a open book
• portrait orientation = 0, landscape orientation =6, I see 6 pages side by side

IIRC it is pixels, I should add a note.

Good idea, thanks for info.

[kovidgoyal]

Makes sense to me. 0 means automatic column sizing. So assuming your window is more wide than it is tall, unless you set the value for landscape to something non-zero the number of pages you see, will be adjusted automatically. Probably in your first case, the window was slightly wider than in all the rest, so the automatic calculation yielded 3 instead of 2 pages.

[Divingduck]

Still confuse me - but I try to get my mind out of paper thinking. I was ok with all except variant 2+3 where I thought I need to see something like one or six pages in a kind of grouping

[Martina Schein]

Today I set up the network server in Caliber on my main computer. I called the libraries with my smartphone with Chrome 58.0. Looks very nice.

However, I've discovered that in the list view, some lines overlay some others (sort by series) [Screenshot 1]. In Firefox 53.0.2, this does not occur on [Screenshot 2]. Also when calling via the PC, everything is okay [Screenshot 3].

Smartphone: Honor 6 Plus
Android 6.0
Not rooted

Calibre 2.99.6