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KOReader 2020.12 “Focused Treatment”

As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I’m proud to announce the latest release.

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screenshot-koreader-2020-12-17-zoom-options-fs8The biggest novelty this month is the reworked zoom functionality for paged documents, contributed by @jperon (#6885). Not only is it now easier to activate trusted companions like zoom to fit content, but easily customizable row and column modes were added as well. The directional arrows easily allow for switching between different routes to traverse the page. Happy holidays!

We’d like to thank all contributors for their efforts. Some highlights since the previous release include:

  • Reference page numbers list: highlight current page (#6888) @poire-z
  • Footer: ensure minimum height for the in-fill in progress bar (#6878) @Jellby
  • android: fix dict overrides (#6887) @pazos
  • Hide non-linear fragments (#6847) @Jellby
  • CoverImage plugin: add “Size and background” options (#6884) @zwim
    • CoverImage plugin: allow saving covers as BMP (#6904)
    • CoverImage plugin: enable on Remarkable and PocketBook (#6906)
    • CoverImage plugin: allow saving covers as JPG (#6924)
  • ReaderCropping: prettier bottom buttons (#6900) @poire-z
  • Kobo, Mk.5: Tweak CPU frequency scaling (#6905) @NiLuJe
  • add Latin hyphenation (#6910) @jperon
  • Paged documents: rework zoom options (#6885) @jperon
  • Kobo: Warn on restart if the startup script is outdated (#6916) @NiLuJe
  • switch between internal and external sdcard (#6919) @pazos
  • Use Unicode minus in ButtonProgressWidget (#6939) @johnbeard
  • Fix bad authentication handling in opds browser (#6942) @Galunid
  • Make default UI tapzones more generous (#6918) @NiLuJe
  • [Android] Switch compression to lzma2 (#6881) @pazos
  • Fix the frontlight gesture range scaling (#6946) @NiLuJe
  • JPG/PNG: MuPDF as default provider (#6931) @jperon
  • RenderImage: add renderSVGImageFile() (#6952, #6950) @poire-z
  • TextEditor: fix some settings not sticking (#6979) @poire-z
  • ReaderFooter: Don’t duplicate a 12h clock time format option (#6973) @NiLuJe
  • bump luajit-launcher: fix for some dict downloads (#6990) @pazos
  • Calibre plugin fixes for android (#6996) @pazos

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