calibre 0.6.0 released

[Timoleon]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

The font rescaling code has been changed, it now uses two inputs, the base font size and a font size key.

The font size key is a list of sizes to map the logical sizes xx-small, x-small, small, normal, large, x-large, xx-large etc to. All sizes in the document are sized proportionately by the key. If you find the high end becoming too large try setting a key that has different (I can't remember whether smaller of larger sizes on the high end).

If I remember right the SONY reader output profile by default uses the key
7.5, 9, 10, 12, 15.5, 20, 22, 24

This key has been optimized for EPUB output as going forward I'm pretty sure SONY will drop LRF. You might have to experiment a little to find the best key for your needs.

I changed the font size key list to:
7.5, 9, 10, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12 and this solved my problem. The lrf file generated by Calibre no longer has the super-sized book author and book title strings as produced by Book Designer.

I'll play with epub next. Thanks for your help, Kovid!

[slantybard]

Originally Posted by Timoleon

I changed the font size key list to:
7.5, 9, 10, 12, 12, 12, 12, 12 and this solved my problem. The lrf file generated by Calibre no longer has the super-sized book author and book title strings as produced by Book Designer.

I'll play with epub next. Thanks for your help, Kovid!

This is pretty interesting. Is there an algorithm for the font size key if you just change the base font size? For example, if the font size key is defaulted to:
7.5, 9, 10, 12, 15.5, 20, 22, 24
then I assume the "base font size" of this key is 12. If we change the base font size to a larger or smaller number, then what happens to the key? Or would the key stay the same except for the "normal" number. This could lead to a normal size larger or smaller than the other keyed sizes.

[Kris777]

I just found this video presentation on youtube:

[kovidgoyal]

@slantybard: It's been a while since I looked at that code (it was written by llasram anyway) but IIRC the nearest size in the key becomes normal.

@Kris777: Thanks for the link, I've added it to the calibre video page

[Angela]

Hello,sorry for my english i am italian.A strange thing happens.I have all my book in mobipocket.I put it in calibre then i convert it into epub.I read it but the letter ì is missing.I attached image and see the yellow word.Thanks.

[Lo Zeno]

I'm Italian too, and I experienced a similar problem converting a TXT to EPUB today: all accented letters (à, è, é, ì, ò, ù), which are unfortunately very common and widely used in Italian, are missing in the converted text.

[Angela]

Lo Zeno,no this is a new thing.In other version of calibre 06.16b it is ok.I am not converting txt to epub but mobi to epub and in mobi accended letters is ok.In this case only ì missing, à è ò ù is ok. Thank you

[kovidgoyal]

@Angela: Opena ticket and attach the MOBI file showing this problem.

@LoZeno: You have to specify the correct input encoding when converting TXT files. Try using one of the following encodings

cp1252
cp1251
latin1

[PiAir]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@LoZeno: You have to specify the correct input encoding when converting TXT files. Try using one of the following encodings

cp1252
cp1251
latin1

And in your case you also might want to try UTF-8

Tip: if you open the TXT file in Notepad++ (free) you can easily see the encoding for the file and even change it.

[Momo_Germany]

I really waited for Version 6 and I like some of the new features (detecting two cards at the Sony Reader etc.). But for now after trying Version 6 I have to say I went back to 5.14., which is much more comfortable for me.

The rasons:

1) As some of the other users too I've problems with the font sizes in Version 6. For me it has become much more complicated than before to get an epub in a font size I like. However, somehow I think I would find a solution if I had the time to try various possibilities (but for the moment I don't have the time to do so).

2) more importantly: If I convert an ebook (epub to epub) to add a cover and make the fonts a little bit bigger with Version 6 the page-numbers of the ebook change. I can't use this, as I need a version of the books where the page-numbers stay the same as in the printed version (important for quotations etc.). Up to Version 5.14 this worked perfectly for epubs, now it doesn't work like this anymore.

3) If I do so (converting epub to epub, changing the font-size and adding a cover) the former cover-page of the ebook now is always removed by Calibre 6 automatically, although I made sure NOT to check this box in my settings. I can try whatever I want, the former cover-page now is always removed and changed into a plain page, which I absolutely don't like.

Maybe those things will be fixed in future. So far I go back to Version 5.14, which works much better for me.

By the way: When I went back to Version 5.14 after having tried Version 6 I had no possibility anymore to connect Calibre to my Calibre-library-files and I had to remove them from the folder to get Calibre 5.14 to work again). In my case that's not that bad as fortunately I only use Calibre to convert books, change the font-sizes, add covers etc. and not to organise my ebooks. But for Users who need the Calibre library function: be careful with trying out Version 6 and then possibly going back to 5.X!

However, thank you for this program and its' possibilities!

Greetings,
Momo

[Kostas]

Thanks a lot to Kovid and all his team...
Just made a donation to support your great job.

[kovidgoyal]

@Momo_Germany: 2 is a regression (0.6 currently doesn't have support for page templates, while 0.5 did, you should open a ticket and attach a sample epub file). 3 is probably because your source epub file doesn't correctly identify the cover. Again open a ticket and I will see if it can be worked around.

@Kostas: Thanks!

[Garfunkel]

Kovid, thanks so much for fixing the fb2 Input plugin auto created the ToC bug!

[Angela]

Thank you Kovid I open a ticket.This is the number Ticket #2953 (new defect)

[leebok21]

Excellent Job, Kovid.

Again, I still can not embed proper font in PDF conversion. Isn't this supported yet?

I used below code in extra CSS:


body{font-family:"Times";}

But, I don't see any font change. It seems that Calibre pick up font font automatically when it's conversion. If I delete that certain font from my Windows font folder, Calibre pick up different font for default.

Also, I have trouble to set line height in LRF conversion. In the Look & feel window, Line height does not respond to the request. Even I tried extra css as:

p {line-height: 5}

That doesn't work.

Seems like Line height function is lost in 0.6 version so far.

Any idea?