Calibre 3.24.2 + Portable

New features

• Conversion: EPUB Output: Add an option to output EPUB 3 files.
• PDF Output: Add an option to break long words at the ends of lines.
• PDF Output: Allow using images in the header/footer templates
• Add an option to use two lines for the text under the toolbar button in Preferences->Look & feel
• Edit book: Spell check: Update the number of misspelled words/total words displayed when correcting/ignoring words.
• Edit book: Fix HTML: Automatically resolve private entities
• Improve formatting of help in Preferences->Tweaks
• ToC Editor: Allow undo for renaming single items as well.

Bug fixes

• Version 3.24.2 fixes a bug in the new EPUB 3 output functionality that prevented conversion of non-EPUB 3 books to EPUB 3
• Version 3.24.1 fixes a regression in the 3.24 in the editor that caused syncing between the editor and the Preview panel/Live CSS panel to not work correctly
• PDF Output: Strip zero-width space characters from the text as their presence prevents searching from working
• DOCX Output: Fix <pre> tags not being converted correctly.
• DOCX Input: Fix incorrect conversion of a framed block that contains a list.
• Conversion: Fix private entities that use the same name as an HTML entity not being handled correctly
• Viewer: Fix HTML files with private entities displaying an artifact at the top
• Edit book: Check book: Show an error for HTML files with private entities
• EPUB3 Input: Fix titlepage being referred to in the nav causing two titlepage entries in the final book.
• Fix throbber buttons not being perfectly aligned inside toolbars
• Quickview: Fix sizes not being displayed.
• Edit book: Compress images tool: Do not mark the book as changed if no images could be further compressed.
• Book list split-view: Fix horizontal scroll position of split view can change when changing the current column in one view.
• Fix Bookeen Saga not being recognized on macOS/Linux.
• Edit metadata dialog: Fix undo last trim not working for automatic trims.
• Content server: Fix series field blank in Italian translation
• BeautifulSoup: Port fix from upstream for outputting bare ampersands in strings.
• calibredb add: Run the input plugins before reading metadata instead of after.

New news sources

• The Federalist by Kovid Goyal
• Improved news sources
• The New York Times Book Review
• New York Times
• Le Devoir