Merge from trunk

Changelog.yaml

@@ -4,6 +4,53 @@
 # for important features/bug fixes.
 # Also, each release can have new and improved recipes.
 
+- version: 0.7.6
+  date: 2010-06-28
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Add support for the new firmware of the Azbooka"
+      tickets: [5994]
+
+    - title: "A few speedups for calibre startup, should add up to a few seconds of startup time on slower machines"
+
+    - title: "Support for the Sweem MM300"
+
+    - title: "Add keyboard shorcut for Download metadata and covers"
+
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix regression in 0.7.5 that broke conversion of malformed HTML files (like those Microsoft Word outputs)"
+      type: major
+      tickets: [5991]
+
+    - title: "Don't download tags from librarything, as the tagging there is not very good"
+
+    - title: "Add mimetype for FB2 so that it can be served by the content server"
+      tickets: [6011]
+
+    - title: "Ensure cover is not resized to less than the available space in the Edit Meta Information dialog"
+      tickets: [6001]
+
+    - title: "SONY driver: Only update collections when sending book to device for the first time"
+
+    - title: "calibre should now work on windows when the location for the library contains non-ascii characters"
+      tickets: [5983]
+
+    - title: "Cover browser once again distorts instead of cropping covers that have an incorrect aspect ratio"
+
+    - title: "ISBNDb metadata plugin: Fix bug causing only first page of results to be fetched"
+
+    - title: "Move iTunes driver to the bottom so that it doesn't interfere with device detection for people that have iphones and an ereader plugged in"
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Houston Chronicle
+    - Hindu
+    - Times of India
+    - New York Times
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: Winnipeg Sun
+      author: rty
+
 - version: 0.7.5
   date: 2010-06-25
 

resources/recipes/hindu.recipe

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from __future__ import with_statement
 __license__ = 'GPL 3'
 __copyright__ = '2009, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 
-import re
+import time
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
@@ -10,45 +10,41 @@ class TheHindu(BasicNewsRecipe):
     language = 'en_IN'
 
     oldest_article        = 7
-    __author__            = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
+    __author__            = 'Kovid Goyal'
     max_articles_per_feed = 100
     no_stylesheets = True
 
-    remove_tags_before = {'name':'font', 'class':'storyhead'}
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(id='content')]
-    preprocess_regexps = [
+    remove_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':['article-links', 'breadcr']}),
-                (re.compile(r'<!-- story ends -->.*', re.DOTALL),
+            dict(id=['email-section', 'right-column', 'printfooter'])]
-                 lambda match: '</body></html>'),
+
-                          ]
+    extra_css = '.photo-caption { font-size: smaller }'
-    extra_css = '''
-                .storyhead{font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:large; color:#000099;}
-                body{font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:x-small; text-align:left;}
-                '''
-    feeds          = [
-      (u'Main - Front Page', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/01hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - National', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/02hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - International', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/03hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - Opinion', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/05hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - Business', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/06hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - Sport', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/07hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - Weather / Religion / Crossword / Cartoon',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/10hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Main - Engagements', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/26hdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Literary Review',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/lrhdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Sunday Magazine',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/maghdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Open Page', u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/ophdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Business Review',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/bizhdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Book Review',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/brhdline.xml'),
-      (u'Supplement - Science & Technology',
-       u'http://www.hindu.com/rss/setahdline.xml')
-      ]
 
     def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
         for t in soup.findAll(['table', 'tr', 'td','center']):
             t.name = 'div'
-
-
         return soup
+
+    def parse_index(self):
+        today = time.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
+        soup = self.index_to_soup(
+                'http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-index/?date=' + today)
+        div = soup.find(id='left-column')
+        feeds = []
+        current_section = None
+        current_articles = []
+        for x in div.findAll(['h3', 'div']):
+            if current_section and x.get('class', '') == 'tpaper':
+                a = x.find('a', href=True)
+                if a is not None:
+                    current_articles.append({'url':a['href']+'?css=print',
+                        'title':self.tag_to_string(a), 'date': '',
+                        'description':''})
+            if x.name == 'h3':
+                if current_section and current_articles:
+                    feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
+                current_section = self.tag_to_string(x)
+                current_articles = []
+        return feeds
+
+

resources/recipes/houston_chronicle.recipe

@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 # vim:fileencoding=UTF-8:ts=4:sw=4:sta:et:sts=4:ai
+
+import string, pprint
+
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
 
 class HoustonChronicle(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
     title          = u'The Houston Chronicle'
     description    = 'News from Houston, Texas'
-    __author__	   = 'Kovid Goyal and Sujata Raman'
+    __author__	   = 'Kovid Goyal'
     language       = 'en'
     timefmt        = ' [%a, %d %b, %Y]'
     no_stylesheets = True
@@ -38,54 +41,23 @@ class HoustonChronicle(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
 
     def parse_index(self):
-        soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.chron.com/news/')
+        categories = ['news', 'sports', 'business', 'entertainment', 'life',
-        container = soup.find('table', attrs={'class':'body-columns'})
+                'travel']
-
         feeds = []
-        current_section = 'Top Stories'
+        for cat in categories:
-        current_articles = []
+            articles = []
-
+            soup = self.index_to_soup('http://www.chron.com/%s/'%cat)
-        self.log('\tFound section:', current_section)
+            for elem in soup.findAll(comptype='story', storyid=True):
-
+                a = elem.find('a', href=True)
-        for div in container.findAll('div'):
+                if a is None: continue
-            if div.get('class', None) == 'module-mast':
+                url = a['href']
-                t = self.tag_to_string(div).replace(u'\xbb', '').strip()
+                if not url.startswith('http://'):
-                if t and 'interactives' not in t:
+                    url = 'http://www.chron.com'+url
-                    if current_section and current_articles:
+                articles.append({'title':self.tag_to_string(a), 'url':url,
-                        feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
+                    'description':'', 'date':''})
-                    current_section = t
+                pprint.pprint(articles[-1])
-                    current_articles = []
+            if articles:
-                    self.log('\tFound section:', current_section)
+                feeds.append((string.capwords(cat), articles))
-            elif div.get('storyid', False):
-                a = div.find('a', href=True)
-                if a:
-                    title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-                    url = a.get('href')
-                    if title and url:
-                        if url.startswith('/'):
-                            url = 'http://www.chron.com'+url
-                        self.log('\t\tFound article:', title)
-                        self.log('\t\t\t', url)
-                        current_articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url,
-                            'date':'', 'description':''})
-            elif div.get('class', None) == 'columnbox' and \
-                    'special' in current_section.lower():
-                a = div.find('a')
-                if a:
-                    title = self.tag_to_string(a)
-                    url = a.get('href')
-                    if title and url:
-                        if not url.startswith('/'): continue
-                        url = 'http://www.chron.com'+url
-                        self.log('\t\tFound article:', title)
-                        self.log('\t\t\t', url)
-                        a.extract()
-                        desc = self.tag_to_string(div)
-                        current_articles.append({'title':title, 'url':url,
-                            'date':'', 'description':desc})
-
-        if current_section and current_articles:
-            feeds.append((current_section, current_articles))
         return feeds
 
 

resources/recipes/toi.recipe

@@ -1,21 +1,16 @@
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 class TimesOfIndia(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title          = u'Times of India'
     language       = 'en_IN'
-    __author__     = 'Krittika Goyal'
+    __author__     = 'Kovid Goyal'
     oldest_article = 1 #days
     max_articles_per_feed = 25
 
-    remove_stylesheets = True
+    no_stylesheets = True
+    keep_only_tags = [dict(attrs={'class':'prttabl'})]
     remove_tags = [
-       dict(name='iframe'),
+            dict(style=lambda x: x and 'float' in x)
-       dict(name='td', attrs={'class':'newptool1'}),
-       dict(name='div', attrs={'id':'newptool'}),
-       dict(name='ul', attrs={'class':'newtabcontent_tabs_new'}),
-       dict(name='b', text='Topics'),
-       dict(name='span', text=':'),
     ]
 
     feeds          = [
@@ -42,13 +37,8 @@ class TimesOfIndia(BasicNewsRecipe):
 ('Most Read',
  'http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/rssfeedmostread.cms')
 ]
+    def print_version(self, url):
+        return url + '?prtpage=1'
 
     def preprocess_html(self, soup):
-        heading = soup.find(name='h1', attrs={'class':'heading'})
-        td = heading.findParent(name='td')
-        td.extract()
-        soup = BeautifulSoup('<html><head><title>t</title></head><body></body></html>')
-        body = soup.find(name='body')
-        body.insert(0, td)
-        td.name = 'div'
         return soup

src/calibre/__init__.py

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ mimetypes.add_type('application/epub+zip',                '.epub')
 mimetypes.add_type('text/x-sony-bbeb+xml',                '.lrs')
 mimetypes.add_type('application/xhtml+xml',               '.xhtml')
 mimetypes.add_type('image/svg+xml',                       '.svg')
+mimetypes.add_type('text/fb2+xml',                        '.fb2')
 mimetypes.add_type('application/x-sony-bbeb',             '.lrf')
 mimetypes.add_type('application/x-sony-bbeb',             '.lrx')
 mimetypes.add_type('application/x-dtbncx+xml',            '.ncx')

src/calibre/constants.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-__version__   = '0.7.5'
+__version__   = '0.7.6'
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 
 import re

src/calibre/devices/hanvon/driver.py

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ class N516(USBMS):
 
     VENDOR_ID   = [0x0525]
     PRODUCT_ID  = [0xa4a5]
-    BCD         = [0x323, 0x326]
+    BCD         = [0x323, 0x326, 0x327]
 
     VENDOR_NAME      = 'INGENIC'
     WINDOWS_MAIN_MEM = '_FILE-STOR_GADGE'

src/calibre/devices/usbms/driver.py

@@ -298,8 +298,9 @@ class USBMS(CLI, Device):
         # Clear the _new_book indication, as we are supposed to be done with
         # adding books at this point
         for blist in booklists:
-            for book in blist:
+            if blist is not None:
-                book._new_book = False
+                for book in blist:
+                    book._new_book = False
 
         self.report_progress(1.0, _('Sending metadata to device...'))
         debug_print('USBMS: finished sync_booklists')

src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/library_thing.py

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Fetch cover from LibraryThing.com based on ISBN number.
 import sys, socket, os, re
 
 from lxml import html
+import mechanize
 
 from calibre import browser, prints
 from calibre.utils.config import OptionParser
@@ -14,11 +15,17 @@ from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 OPENLIBRARY = 'http://covers.openlibrary.org/b/isbn/%s-L.jpg?default=false'
 
+class HeadRequest(mechanize.Request):
+
+    def get_method(self):
+        return 'HEAD'
+
 def check_for_cover(isbn, timeout=5.):
     br = browser()
     br.set_handle_redirect(False)
     try:
-        br.open_novisit(OPENLIBRARY%isbn, timeout=timeout)
+        br.open_novisit(HeadRequest(OPENLIBRARY%isbn), timeout=timeout)
+        return True
     except Exception, e:
         if callable(getattr(e, 'getcode', None)) and e.getcode() == 302:
             return True
@@ -126,10 +133,10 @@ def get_social_metadata(title, authors, publisher, isbn, username=None,
                 if match is not None:
                     si = float(match.group())
                 mi.series_index = si
-        tags = root.xpath('//div[@class="tags"]/span[@class="tag"]/a')
+        #tags = root.xpath('//div[@class="tags"]/span[@class="tag"]/a')
-        if tags:
+        #if tags:
-            mi.tags = [html.tostring(x, method='text', encoding=unicode) for x
+        #    mi.tags = [html.tostring(x, method='text', encoding=unicode) for x
-                    in tags]
+        #            in tags]
         span = root.xpath(
                 '//table[@class="wsltable"]/tr[@class="wslcontent"]/td[4]//span')
         if span:

src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py

@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ class Manifest(object):
                                 "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><o:p></o:p>",
                                 '')
                         data = data.replace("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'??>", '')
-                        data = etree.fromstring(data)
+                        data = etree.fromstring(data, parser=RECOVER_PARSER)
             elif namespace(data.tag) != XHTML_NS:
                 # OEB_DOC_NS, but possibly others
                 ns = namespace(data.tag)

src/calibre/gui2/book_details.py

@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ class Label(QLabel):
         self.setTextFormat(Qt.RichText)
         self.setText('')
         self.setWordWrap(True)
+        self.setAlignment(Qt.AlignTop)
         self.linkActivated.connect(self.link_activated)
         self._link_clicked = False
         self.setSizePolicy(QSizePolicy.Expanding, QSizePolicy.Expanding)
@@ -205,15 +206,15 @@ class BookInfo(QScrollArea):
         rows = render_rows(data)
         rows = u'\n'.join([u'<tr><td valign="top"><b>%s:</b></td><td valign="top">%s</td></tr>'%(k,t) for
             k, t in rows])
+        comments = ''
+        if data.get(_('Comments'), '') not in ('', u'None'):
+            comments = data[_('Comments')]
+            comments = comments_to_html(comments)
         if self.vertical:
-            if _('Comments') in data and data[_('Comments')]:
+            if comments:
-                comments = comments_to_html(data[_('Comments')])
                 rows += u'<tr><td colspan="2">%s</td></tr>'%comments
             self.label.setText(u'<table>%s</table>'%rows)
         else:
-            comments = ''
-            if _('Comments') in data:
-                comments = comments_to_html(data[_('Comments')])
             left_pane = u'<table>%s</table>'%rows
             right_pane = u'<div>%s</div>'%comments
             self.label.setText(u'<table><tr><td valign="top" '

src/calibre/gui2/convert/metadata.py

@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ class MetadataWidget(Widget, Ui_Form):
             if not pm.isNull():
                 self.cover.setPixmap(pm)
                 self.cover_data = cover
+        else:
+            self.cover.setPixmap(QPixmap(I('default_cover.svg')))
+
 
     def initialize_combos(self):
         self.initalize_authors()

src/calibre/gui2/convert/metadata.ui

@@ -20,36 +20,6 @@
       <string>Book Cover</string>
      </property>
      <layout class="QGridLayout" name="_2">
-      <item row="0" column="0">
-       <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="_3">
-        <item>
-         <widget class="ImageView" name="cover">
-          <property name="text">
-           <string/>
-          </property>
-          <property name="pixmap">
-           <pixmap resource="../../../../resources/images.qrc">:/images/book.svg</pixmap>
-          </property>
-          <property name="scaledContents">
-           <bool>true</bool>
-          </property>
-          <property name="alignment">
-           <set>Qt::AlignCenter</set>
-          </property>
-         </widget>
-        </item>
-       </layout>
-      </item>
-      <item row="2" column="0">
-       <widget class="QCheckBox" name="opt_prefer_metadata_cover">
-        <property name="text">
-         <string>Use cover from &amp;source file</string>
-        </property>
-        <property name="checked">
-         <bool>true</bool>
-        </property>
-       </widget>
-      </item>
       <item row="1" column="0">
        <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="_4">
         <property name="spacing">
@@ -101,6 +71,30 @@
         </item>
        </layout>
       </item>
+      <item row="2" column="0">
+       <widget class="QCheckBox" name="opt_prefer_metadata_cover">
+        <property name="text">
+         <string>Use cover from &amp;source file</string>
+        </property>
+        <property name="checked">
+         <bool>true</bool>
+        </property>
+       </widget>
+      </item>
+      <item row="0" column="0">
+       <layout class="QHBoxLayout" name="_3">
+        <item>
+         <widget class="ImageView" name="cover" native="true">
+          <property name="sizePolicy">
+           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Expanding" vsizetype="Expanding">
+            <horstretch>0</horstretch>
+            <verstretch>0</verstretch>
+           </sizepolicy>
+          </property>
+         </widget>
+        </item>
+       </layout>
+      </item>
      </layout>
      <zorder>opt_prefer_metadata_cover</zorder>
      <zorder></zorder>
@@ -308,11 +302,6 @@
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <customwidgets>
-  <customwidget>
-   <class>ImageView</class>
-   <extends>QLabel</extends>
-   <header>widgets.h</header>
-  </customwidget>
   <customwidget>
    <class>EnLineEdit</class>
    <extends>QLineEdit</extends>
@@ -328,6 +317,12 @@
    <extends>QLineEdit</extends>
    <header>widgets.h</header>
   </customwidget>
+  <customwidget>
+   <class>ImageView</class>
+   <extends>QWidget</extends>
+   <header>calibre/gui2/widgets.h</header>
+   <container>1</container>
+  </customwidget>
  </customwidgets>
  <tabstops>
   <tabstop>title</tabstop>

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_single.py

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import re
 import time
 import traceback
 
-from PyQt4.Qt import SIGNAL, QObject, QCoreApplication, Qt, QTimer, QThread, QDate, \
+from PyQt4.Qt import SIGNAL, QObject, Qt, QTimer, QThread, QDate, \
     QPixmap, QListWidgetItem, QDialog
 
 from calibre.gui2 import error_dialog, file_icon_provider, dynamic, \
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ from calibre.ebooks import BOOK_EXTENSIONS
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata import string_to_authors, \
         authors_to_string, check_isbn
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.library_thing import cover_from_isbn
-from calibre import islinux, isfreebsd
 from calibre.ebooks.metadata.meta import get_metadata
 from calibre.utils.config import prefs, tweaks
 from calibre.utils.date import qt_to_dt
@@ -311,7 +310,6 @@ class MetadataSingleDialog(ResizableDialog, Ui_MetadataSingleDialog):
         self.formats.setAcceptDrops(True)
         self.cover_changed = False
         self.cpixmap = None
-        self.cover.setAcceptDrops(True)
         self.pubdate.setMinimumDate(QDate(100,1,1))
         pubdate_format = tweaks['gui_pubdate_display_format']
         if pubdate_format is not None:
@@ -399,11 +397,6 @@ class MetadataSingleDialog(ResizableDialog, Ui_MetadataSingleDialog):
         self.series.lineEdit().editingFinished.connect(self.increment_series_index)
 
         self.show()
-        height_of_rest = self.frameGeometry().height() - self.cover.height()
-        width_of_rest  = self.frameGeometry().width() - self.cover.width()
-        ag = QCoreApplication.instance().desktop().availableGeometry(self)
-        self.cover.MAX_HEIGHT = ag.height()-(25 if (islinux or isfreebsd) else 0)-height_of_rest
-        self.cover.MAX_WIDTH = ag.width()-(25 if (islinux or isfreebsd) else 0)-width_of_rest
         pm = QPixmap()
         if cover:
             pm.loadFromData(cover)

src/calibre/gui2/dialogs/metadata_single.ui

@@ -576,22 +576,13 @@
                  </property>
                  <layout class="QVBoxLayout" name="verticalLayout_4">
                   <item>
-                   <widget class="ImageView" name="cover">
+                   <widget class="ImageView" name="cover" native="true">
                     <property name="sizePolicy">
                      <sizepolicy hsizetype="Expanding" vsizetype="Expanding">
                       <horstretch>0</horstretch>
-                      <verstretch>0</verstretch>
+                      <verstretch>100</verstretch>
                      </sizepolicy>
                     </property>
-                    <property name="text">
-                     <string/>
-                    </property>
-                    <property name="pixmap">
-                     <pixmap resource="../../../../resources/images.qrc">:/images/book.svg</pixmap>
-                    </property>
-                    <property name="scaledContents">
-                     <bool>true</bool>
-                    </property>
                    </widget>
                   </item>
                   <item>
@@ -707,11 +698,6 @@
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <customwidgets>
-  <customwidget>
-   <class>ImageView</class>
-   <extends>QLabel</extends>
-   <header>widgets.h</header>
-  </customwidget>
   <customwidget>
    <class>EnLineEdit</class>
    <extends>QLineEdit</extends>
@@ -732,6 +718,12 @@
    <extends>QListWidget</extends>
    <header location="global">calibre/gui2/widgets.h</header>
   </customwidget>
+  <customwidget>
+   <class>ImageView</class>
+   <extends>QWidget</extends>
+   <header>calibre/gui2/widgets.h</header>
+   <container>1</container>
+  </customwidget>
  </customwidgets>
  <tabstops>
   <tabstop>title</tabstop>

src/calibre/gui2/widgets.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from PyQt4.Qt import QListView, QIcon, QFont, QLabel, QListWidget, \
                         QRegExp, QSettings, QSize, QModelIndex, QSplitter, \
                         QAbstractButton, QPainter, QLineEdit, QComboBox, \
                         QMenu, QStringListModel, QCompleter, QStringList, \
-                        QTimer
+                        QTimer, QRect
 
 from calibre.gui2 import NONE, error_dialog, pixmap_to_data, gprefs
 
@@ -146,10 +146,15 @@ class FormatList(QListWidget):
             return QListWidget.keyPressEvent(self, event)
 
 
-class ImageView(QLabel):
+class ImageView(QWidget):
 
-    MAX_WIDTH  = 400
+    def __init__(self, parent=None):
-    MAX_HEIGHT = 300
+        QWidget.__init__(self, parent)
+        self._pixmap = QPixmap(self)
+        self.setMinimumSize(QSize(150, 200))
+        self.setAcceptDrops(True)
+
+    # Drag 'n drop {{{
     DROPABBLE_EXTENSIONS = IMAGE_EXTENSIONS
 
     @classmethod
@@ -186,13 +191,45 @@ class ImageView(QLabel):
 
     def dragMoveEvent(self, event):
         event.acceptProposedAction()
+    # }}}
 
     def setPixmap(self, pixmap):
-        QLabel.setPixmap(self, pixmap)
+        if not isinstance(pixmap, QPixmap):
-        width, height = fit_image(pixmap.width(), pixmap.height(), self.MAX_WIDTH, self.MAX_HEIGHT)[1:]
+            raise TypeError('Must use a QPixmap')
-        self.setMaximumWidth(width)
+        self._pixmap = pixmap
-        self.setMaximumHeight(height)
+        self.updateGeometry()
+        self.update()
 
+    def pixmap(self):
+        return self._pixmap
+
+    def sizeHint(self):
+        if self._pixmap.isNull():
+            return self.minimumSize()
+        return self._pixmap.size()
+
+    def paintEvent(self, event):
+        QWidget.paintEvent(self, event)
+        pmap = self._pixmap
+        if pmap.isNull():
+            return
+        w, h = pmap.width(), pmap.height()
+        cw, ch = self.rect().width(), self.rect().height()
+        scaled, nw, nh = fit_image(w, h, cw, ch)
+        if scaled:
+            pmap = pmap.scaled(nw, nh, Qt.IgnoreAspectRatio,
+                    Qt.SmoothTransformation)
+        w, h = pmap.width(), pmap.height()
+        x = int(abs(cw - w)/2.)
+        y = int(abs(ch - h)/2.)
+        target = QRect(x, y, w, h)
+        p = QPainter(self)
+        p.setRenderHints(QPainter.Antialiasing | QPainter.SmoothPixmapTransform)
+        p.drawPixmap(target, pmap)
+        p.end()
+
+
+    # Clipboard copy/paste # {{{
     def contextMenuEvent(self, ev):
         cm = QMenu(self)
         copy = cm.addAction(_('Copy Image'))
@@ -215,6 +252,7 @@ class ImageView(QLabel):
             self.setPixmap(pmap)
             self.emit(SIGNAL('cover_changed(PyQt_PyObject)'),
                     pixmap_to_data(pmap))
+    # }}}
 
 
 class LocationModel(QAbstractListModel):

src/calibre/library/comments.py

@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ def comments_to_html(comments):
     if not isinstance(comments, unicode):
         comments = comments.decode(preferred_encoding, 'replace')
 
+    if '<' not in comments:
+        comments = prepare_string_for_xml(comments)
+        comments = comments.replace(u'\n', u'<br />')
+        return u'<p>%s</p>'%comments
+
     # Hackish - ignoring sentences ending or beginning in numbers to avoid
     # confusion with decimal points.
 

src/calibre/utils/resources.py

@@ -15,19 +15,23 @@ if _dev_path is not None:
     if not os.path.exists(_dev_path):
         _dev_path = None
 
+_path_cache = {}
+
 def get_path(path, data=False):
     global _dev_path
     path = path.replace(os.sep, '/')
-    base = None
+    base = sys.resources_location
     if _dev_path is not None:
+        if path in _path_cache:
+            return _path_cache[path]
         if os.path.exists(os.path.join(_dev_path, *path.split('/'))):
             base = _dev_path
-    if base is None:
+    fpath = os.path.join(base, *path.split('/'))
-        base = sys.resources_location
+    if _dev_path is not None:
-    path = os.path.join(base, *path.split('/'))
+        _path_cache[path] = fpath
     if data:
-        return open(path, 'rb').read()
+        return open(fpath, 'rb').read()
-    return path
+    return fpath
 
 def get_image_path(path, data=False):
     return get_path('images/'+path, data=data)

src/calibre/web/feeds/recipes/model.py

@@ -96,19 +96,21 @@ class NewsItem(NewsTreeItem):
             builtin, custom, scheduler_config, parent):
         NewsTreeItem.__init__(self, builtin, custom, scheduler_config, parent)
         self.urn, self.title = urn, title
+        self.icon = self.default_icon = None
+        self.default_icon = default_icon
         if 'custom:' in self.urn:
             self.icon = custom_icon
-        else:
-            icon = I('news/%s.png'%self.urn[8:])
-            if os.path.exists(icon):
-                self.icon = QVariant(QIcon(icon))
-            else:
-                self.icon = default_icon
 
     def data(self, role):
         if role == Qt.DisplayRole:
             return QVariant(self.title)
         if role == Qt.DecorationRole:
+            if self.icon is None:
+                icon = I('news/%s.png'%self.urn[8:])
+                if os.path.exists(icon):
+                    self.icon = QVariant(QIcon(icon))
+                else:
+                    self.icon = self.default_icon
             return self.icon
         return NONE