{"id":33,"date":"2023-11-15T01:01:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T01:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/foliate-linux-ebook-app-upgraded-to-gtk4-check-out-the-exciting-new-features\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T04:47:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T04:47:28","slug":"foliate-linux-ebook-app-upgraded-to-gtk4-check-out-the-exciting-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/foliate-linux-ebook-app-upgraded-to-gtk4-check-out-the-exciting-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Foliate Linux eBook App Upgraded to GTK4: Check Out the Exciting New Features&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Foliate, an excellent ebook reader for Linux, has recently launched a significant update.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>According to the software developer, the application was completely rewritten utilizing the latest platform libraries, GTK4, and Adwaita, resulting in a refreshed interface and improved performance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>In addition to being ported to GTK4, Foliate 3.0 now employs its own library for parsing and rendering ePubs, eliminating the need for Epub.js or KindleUnpack. As a result, startup times and memory usage have been drastically reduced because entire files are no longer fully loaded into memory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Despite the old adage advising against judging a book by its cover, the various visual upgrades in Foliate 3.0 (thanks to libadwaita) make it difficult to resist!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Foliate 3.0 presents its library and ebook viewer in a single, unified window. This seemingly minor modification greatly enhances the reading experience by minimizing the need for managing app windows, workspaces, etc.<\/p>\n<p>The updated Paginated mode can now display more than two columns (depending on window width). It also introduces animations and offers 1:1 integration with touchscreen and touchpad gestures. Moreover, by pressing <kbd>ctrl<\/kbd> + <kbd>m<\/kbd>, users can easily toggle between paginated and scrolled layouts.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you don&#8217;t need to click a button to load the library as it is automatically triggered by scrolling. The &#8216;add bookmark&#8217; button has been moved to the header bar, allowing bookmarked pages to display a ribbon indicator. Additionally, a newly added sidebar contains bookmarks, table of contents, annotations, and &#8216;find in page&#8217; results (when activated).<\/p>\n<p>Do you enjoy copying text from eBooks to paste elsewhere? New options have been added, including the facility to copy text with HTML formatting, &#8220;copy with citation&#8221; (which appends the author and book title to the copied text) and &#8220;copy identifier&#8221; (if copying from an ePub file), enabling you to copy the <a href=\"https:\/\/idpf.org\/epub\/linking\/cfi\/epub-cfi-20111011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CFI<\/a> for pasting or sharing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other changes include adopting Speech Dispatcher for Foliate\u2019s text-to-speech feature (bringing support for pausing, skipping, word highlighting, SSML, and speed and pitch controls); adding timestamps to annotations; the ability to print chapters and selections; and experimental support for PDF files.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Read through&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/johnfactotum\/foliate\/releases\/tag\/3.0.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official changelog<\/a>&nbsp;for more details on every dot, dash, and difference in this release.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>That said, you may want to hold off upgrading. A few features, including <a href=\"https:\/\/opds.io\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OPDS<\/a> and offline dictionaries, are yet to be ported to over so aren\u2019t included in the v3.0.0 (though they\u2019ll likely reappear in a future chapter. Support for CBR, CBT, and CB7 files has also been removed, though CBZ remains supported.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>NVIDIA users should be prepared to encounter rendering issues when viewing ePub files, mainly in the form of ePubs pages are totally blank. This is down to a known bug in WebKit. A workaround <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/johnfactotum\/foliate\/issues\/1085#issuecomment-1766208781)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mentioned on the Foliate GitHub<\/a> is to run the app using <code>WEBKIT_DISABLE_COMPOSITING_MODE=1<\/code>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>You can get the latest stable release of <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/com.github.johnfactotum.Foliate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Foliate on Flathub<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/snapcraft.io\/foliate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">from the Snap Store<\/a> (though at the time of writing v3.0 is only in the <code>--edge<\/code> channel).  <\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Archisman P.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foliate, an excellent ebook reader for Linux, has recently launched a significant update. 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