CHANGELOG.md

Count Pages Change Log

[1.13.6] - 2024-04-07

Changed

• Use podofo rather than pdfinfo to retrieve pdf page count. Shoudl fix issues for some users having problems with pdfinfo.exe

Fixed

• Fix libpng warning: icCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile using magick mogrify *.png

[1.13.5] - 2024-02-13

Added

• Finnish translation
• Tamil translation

Changed

• A download of page count for a book will still be attempted (with warning dialog) even if word count is configured but book has no formats.

[1.13.4] - 2023-10-08

Fixed

• Identifier regex fix for databazeknih (@seeder)

[1.13.3] - 2023-10-07

Fixed

• Improve page body extraction to correctly handle html entities to give more consistent results between formats
• Missing images for databazeknih and cbdb, plus xpath fix (@seeder)

[1.13.2] - 2023-09-12

Added

• Turkish translation

Fixed

• Goodreads page count web scraping broken from website changes.

[1.13.1] - 2023-09-01

Changed

• E-book Viewer page count should now match what calibre produces.

[1.13.0] - 2023-04-02

Fixed

• Gunning Fog was broken due to english.pickle needing to use LF line endings instead of CRLF (@jonathanking)
• Fast count now strips html before estimating count (@sgmoore)
• Switch from http to https for Goodreads website (@blockloop)

[1.12.1] - 2023-02-03

Fixed

• Fix for change to Goodreads website layout for page count source.

[1.12.0] - 2022-10-16

All kiwidude plugins updated/migrated to: https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibre_plugins

Added

• Support for .webp page counts in CBR/CBZ.
• Add a Help button to the menu and configuration dialog in the Other tab.
• Russian translation (Caarmi)
• Ukranian translation (@yurchor)

Changed

• Breaking: Drop PyQt4 support, require calibre 2.x or later.
• Refactoring of common code.
• Include author(s) with the title in the logging output to make it easier to identify which book that related to.

[1.11.2] - 2022-08-02

Fixed

• Qt6 compatiblility - Prefs viewer tab stops. (@davidfor)

[1.11.2] - 2022-01-26

Changed

• To be compatible with Calibre v6/Qt6. (@davidfor)

[1.11.1] - 2021-07-01

Changed

• Changes to download page count for lubimyczytac.pl (@BeckyEbook)

[1.11.0] - 2020-10-31

Added

• Czech translation (@seeder)
• Add download page count from databazeknih.cz and cbdb.cz (@seeder)

Fixed

• Errors parsing non-English pages when downloading page count. (@davidfor)

[1.10.0] - 2020-06-21

Changed

• Updates for Python 3. (@davidfor)

[1.9.0] - 2019-11-10

Added

• Add download page count from Skoob. (@davidfor)
• Allow a regex for extracting the page count when downloading from a web site.

Changed

• Changes to download page count for lubimyczytac.pl - thanks to BeckyEbook.
• Don't error if downloading page count and calculation is set to ADE algorithm.

Fixed

• Warning when formats missing was repeating.
• Ignore error for books that have been removed since count job was started.

[1.8.2] - 2018-07-01

Changed

• Changes due to refactoring of conversion for calibre 3.27.0. Handling so it is backwardly compatible. (@davidfor)
• Updates to translations. Missed these with the last updated.

[1.8.0] - 2017-05-28

Added

• Add function to allow downloading page count from multiple sites. (@davidfor)
• Add download page count from lubimyczytac.pl (@BeckyEbook)
• Redesign configuration dialog into two tabs.
• French translation thanks to Nicolas F.

Changed

• Change way menu/active site is indicated.

Fixed

• Update book details pane after updating counts.

[1.7.0] - 2017-01-22

Added

• Add callback for other plugins calling the count pages. See method call_plugin_callback in common_utils.py. (@davidfor)
• Add option to choose between ICU word count and the old one. The default is ICU word count.
• Add language awareness for ICU word count. Uses the language in the book, otherwise defaults to English
• Added German version of Flesch Reading Ease.
• Add option to use Preferred Input Format if it is available.
• Added localization support for dialogs.
• Spanish translation thanks to Terisa de morgan.
• Polish translation thanks to BeckyEbook.
• German translation thanks to Dirk-71.

Changed

• Changed tooltip in configuration dialog to show on field as well as label.
• Change way statistics were written to the metadata to reduce side effects.
• Only write changes if they are different to the current values.

Fixed

• Adobe Page count on Mac machines with calibre 2.76 or later.
• For word count, text from all files was appended together without a space in between.
• "Fog", not "Fox".

[1.6.10] - 2016-01-08

Changed

• Changed word count to use ICU BreakIterator. This accepts the book language, so it should be more accurate for non-English as well. Will fall back to old method if the ICU BreakIterator method cannot be loaded. (@davidfor)

[1.6.9] - 2015-07-05

Added

• Added option to disable the confirmation prompt each time to update the page/word counts. Use at your own risk - if you make simultaneous other changes to the book record they may get lost.

Fixed

• For Cancel on the progress dialog (submitted by Ra�l)

[1.6.8] - 2014-07-28

Changed

• Support upcoming calibre 2.0

[1.6.7] - 2013-09-01

Changed

• Plugin now requires calibre 1.0

Fixed

• For calibre changing location of unrar library affecting CBR page counts.

[1.6.6] - 2013-05-09

Fixed

• For Mac users using the ADE algorithm fix an issue with paths (as submitted by SimpleText)

[1.6.5] - 2012-12-06

Fixed

• If user chooses Adobe page count algorithm, do not attempt it on any formats other than EPUB.

[1.6.4] - 2012-12-05

Added

• Add a "Custom" algorithm option for page count, for users who want to specify the number of characters per page.

Fixed

• When switching libraries, ensure keyboard shortcuts are reactivated
• Prevent plugin being used in Device View or on Device View context menu

[1.6.3] - 2012-07-26

Fixed

• If no page count downloaded from goodreads, prevent wrong error appearing in log
• If book configured for page count only and has no formats, prevent error in log (if downloading from Goodreads)

[1.6.2] - 2012-07-19

Fixed

• Make the html tag removal for body tag data case insensitive to fix issue with PDF conversions from 1.6.0

[1.6.1] - 2012-07-17

Fixed

• If a book has zero words, just display an error in log rather than storing zero in the column

[1.6.0] - 2012-07-14

Added

• Add three new statistics for calculating readability - Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and Gunning Fog.

Changed

• Remove the redundant Words algorithm combo since only one algorithm offered.
• Make page algorithm a per library setting rather than a plugin level setting
• For CBR and CBZ book formats, calculate the number of pages as being the number of image files rather than converting to ePub
• For CBR and CBZ book formats, only allow the Count Pages statistic and ignore all other statistics

Fixed

• Tooltip missing line breaks in configuration dialog

[1.5.0] - 2012-06-22

Added

• Add a support option to the configuration dialog allowing viewing the plugin data stored in the database

Changed

• Now requires calibre 0.8.57
• Store configuration in the calibre database rather than a json file, to allow reuse from different computers (not simultaneously!)
• Remove the additional menu items for individual word/page counts added in v1.4.0 as cluttered the interface

[1.4.3] - 2012-06-02

Added

• Add another page count algorithm of "Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)", which matches that used by the ADE software and some devices like Nook.

Changed

• Rename the "Calibre Viewer (Adobe)" option to "E-book Viewer (calibre)" as it was misleading, calibre uses its own calculation not the Adobe one.

[1.4.2] - 2012-05-31

Changed

• Optimisation for counting pages for PDFs to read the page count from the PDF info rather than estimating it

Fixed

• Revert the performance optimisation from 1.4.0 which affected the character count statistics

[1.4.1] - 2012-05-30

Fixed

• Problem with new overwrite existing behaviour not counting pages in some circumstances

[1.4.0] - 2012-05-30

Added

• Additional items for menu to allow doing page/word counts in isolation
• Add an 'Always overwrite existing value' checkbox (default is True), to allow users to turn off overwriting manually populated page/word counts without choosing the isolated menu option

Changed

• Minimum version set to calibre 0.8.51
• Performance optimisation for epubs for calibre 0.8.51 to reduce unneeded computation
• Change to calibre API for deprecated dialog which caused issues that intermittently crashed calibre

[1.3.3] - 2012-04-13

Fixed

• Support change to Goodreads website for scraping page count

[1.3.2] - 2012-04-07

Fixed

• Preferred input order not being correctly applied (was alphabetical instead!)
• LIT formats would cause file in use errors

[1.3.1] - 2012-03-03

Changed

• Support count page/word estimates for any book format by converting to ePub, using preferred input format order

[1.3.0] - 2012-02-12

Added

• Add a Download from Goodreads option to allow retrieving book count from books that have a Goodreads identifier

Changed

• If word count is disabled (i.e. only page count) allow download of page count for any book regardless of formats

Fixed

• Attempted workaround for Qt issue on Mac where some books would crash calibre.

[1.2.0] - 2011-09-11

Changed

• Upgrade to support the centralised keyboard shortcut management in Calibre

[1.1.3] - 2011-07-03

Changed

• Preparation for deprecation for db.format_abspath() function in future Calibre for network backends

[1.1.2] - 2011-06-15

Changed

• No longer allow text custom columns

Fixed

• Address issue of unicode character conversion with some MOBI books for count words

[1.1.1] - 2011-06-12

Changed

• Display log and no results dialog if no statistics were gathered
• Change Mobi word count to not require a conversion

Fixed

• If an unexpected error thrown while counting, include in log
• If user chooses to retrieve only word count

[1.1.0] - 2011-06-09

Added

• Add option to generate a word count instead of or in addition to page count

[1.0.3] - 2011-05-26

Added

• Offer choice of algorithms to match eBook viewer or APNX generation (default)

Fixed

• Ensure DRM encrypted books do not cause errors

[1.0.2] - 2011-05-23

Changed

• Dialog and plugin descriptions updated to indicate Mobi support available/considered

[1.0.1] - 2011-05-23

Added

• Support option to prioritise either Mobi formats (using APNX algorithm) or ePub files

Changed

• Change ePub page count algorithm to be similar to the Mobi APNX algorithm

[1.0.0] - 2011-05-21

Initial release of Count Pages plugin