AVATeR v0.10 release

AVATeR v0.10 restores search settings on startup, adds Markdown export, and includes many fixes and optimisations after testing.

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Requirements

• Windows: Windows 8/10/11+ (Win7 may work)
• Linux Redhat: Fedora WS 35 (glibc 2.34, libzip 1.6, Qt5)
• Debian: Bullseye (~Ubuntu 20+), Buster/Compatible (~Ubuntu 18-19)

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Details

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Changelog

0.10 Aug 31th 2022
- Added: Restore search settings for the last used device on startup (if present)
- Added: Markdown annotation export (experimental)
- Added: Show deleted annotations (and export if shown)
- Added: PB profile selection possible from top-menu
- Added: show basic annotation count (current/total)

- Changed: Store Qt5/6 column settings separately
Switching between Qt versions could induce a crash due to unknown causes (not UTF-8 related). As such you may need to re-configure your column sizes.
- Changed: After filtering on title from the context-menu, don't set the title-page sorting mode
- Changed: increased attempts for Windows USB-related loops
- Changed: Rely on devices.conf group serial ID again (Reverse compatibility is maintained)

Viewer related
- Fixed: show missing page numbers as "?"
- Fixed: missing page number for certain bookmarks
- Fixed: toggling case-sensitive sort works now for all sorting types (including custom sorting)
- Fixed: allow custom sorting on columns after having selected a sort mode
- Fixed: improved setting showing bookmarks/deleted annotations from UI and at model creation

- Fixed: Better handling of model refreshes due to device updates
- Fixed: "Reload annotations" menu-option better handles DB changes
- Fixed: Minor Qt model errors

Other
- Fixed: GUI removal for e-reader or localmirror
- Fixed: copy localmirror if enabled but none was present on device arrival
- Fixed: if localmirror was disabled remotely (via devices.conf), remove and toggle UI elements

- Fixed for Fedora: Qt UI fixes; output all debug messages
- Fixed for Windows: issue with closing uploader progressdialog
- Improved: improved profile rescans
- More, including docs...

Full changelog (.txt) including previous versions.

Changes

New are restoring the last search settings on startup, support for Markdown exporting, and showing deleted annotations, amongst others.

Markdown export example:

Deleted annotation above (after editing the highlight on the PocketBook reader):

The annotation viewer sorting and filter options were reworked and optimised, also allowing custom sorting using the headers. Adding new annotations after connecting a device saw some fixes¹. Also, profile support was implemented. While somewhat of a boondoggle, the associated changes improved the program's structure. Other fixes and improvements targeted the creation and removing of local mirrors, and adding and removing of USB devices.

New is a Fedora 35 binary release. An RPM package will follow at some point (for now manually install libzip and qt5-qtbase). Mentioning that: the Windows release size may vary somewhat. This is due to the ex/inclusion of two libraries, that strictly aren't needed (for backward OpenGL/DirectX compatibility).

Report any issues or feedback via support [at] syncoda.nl or the mobilereads thread.

Future changes

Book metadata should ideally be retrieved from the main database. Some known but minor issues will be addressed, such as dealing with changes of a synced devices.conf. Another involves toggling case-sensitive sorting with non-latin characters in the title sort modes.