Scribus - Roadmap

0007663: [OS-Win32] network inline image path wrong 0013395: [Printing] Picture's shadow not printed 0011676: [Shape Drawing] symmetrical control points doesn't support length deviation 0012195: [User Interface] [PATCH] more progressive unzoom when < 100% 0017023: [Translation] Strange placeholder/suffix for strings in ts file on Transifex 0011551: [Tables] Table/cell indication is clumsy 0011357: [User Interface] Improve Symbols Dialog 0016740: [Import / Export] Pre-Flight verifier finds no issues but still requires "Ignore issues" 0007287: [Shape Drawing] Add to ability change basepoint of lines 0004751: [Usability] Some file dialogs use unreasonable default directories 0010690: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Unwanted change in text size 0012809: [User Interface] Style edit Dialog shrinks after deleting style 0010417: [Fonts] Missing font is proposed to replace missing font 0008211: [Typography] English Hypenation makes too many errors 0009306: [Templates] deleting a custom template does not delete its files from ~/.scribus/templates/{template_name}/ 0011045: [Translation] rename clipping options in the pre-press tab 0011679: [Shape Drawing] Incorrect Line Pattern 0011729: [Shape Drawing] Explicit Point for Rotation Base 0009588: [User Interface] Missing error message when pasting on locked background shape 0011560: [User Interface] "Is Locked" attribute functionality doesn't match documentation 0009937: [Styles] More options in line styles 0013772: [Import / Export] ODT Document importer doesn't understand all styles 0013893: [Import / Export] Some text wrapping is broken / renders differently when opening a Scribus 1.4.x file with Scribus 1.5.2 0012246: [Shape Drawing] Provide more "out" line ends (arrows) 0005806: [PDF] PDFs generated using export aren't always reliably searchable in Acrobat reader in certain conditions 0010555: [Shape Drawing] objects drawn to grid, exceed grid by linewidth. 0013789: [Internal] Interpret ~ (home directory) symbol in Export/Save fields 0006270: [General] Invalid position X,Y inside PDF link POP UP menu. 0007754: [Shape Drawing] Import contour line 0011112: [Canvas] still some blurred frame borders... 0011861: [Plug-ins] [Barcode] Allow for storing barcode-related data within a SLA file, so these can be edited after creation 0013149: [Import / Export] 1.5.x doesn't load 1.3.3.1 .sla grouped items correctly. 0012661: [User Interface] Wording for "pattern" = "symbols" 0010676: [Shape Drawing] editing bezier curves may be impossible on some backgrounds 0011092: [Shape Drawing] Default "habillage" mode in preference 0003543: [Shape Drawing] seperate top/right/bottom/left border options 0007137: [User Interface] Support Icon Naming Spec for Themes 0012024: [Import / Export] Add a warning to the XPS exporter 0013713: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Character attributes of bullets in bullet-lists gets changed upon re-opening file (cbradney) 0003622: [Documentation] Allow Scribus to search for additional directories for docs 0009601: [Typography] (RFEs) wordwrap problem for Korea (and east Asia) 0005503: [User Interface] Remove dividers between quotation marks entries (cbradney) 0012219: [General] PDF export directory presets 0003827: [Releases] Create an MSI package for Scribus 0006230: [Graphics / Image Frames] Feature request: alignment of images within an image frame 0001087: [Printing] Add Ignore Non-Printing setting to print dialog 0004663: [Fonts] Two different fonts with the same name should appear as two fonts in the font list (avox) 0010166: [Usability] Styles: Enter key in Name field opens New button drop-down menu 0013584: [Usability] Metabug: AutoSave & AutoRecover 0006553: [User Interface] Add some options for the Edit (or context) menu "edit image" 0001096: [Graphics / Image Frames] Picture frame padding 0007986: [Usability] add "sectioning" into Document Setup > Sections 0014176: [Usability] Insert Two Variable Text and Backspace --> Crash 0003423: [Story Editor / Text Frames] remaining problems with resizing multiple text boxes 0014030: [Scrapbook] cannot add three times an item with the same name to the scrapbook 0005554: [General] Column-break is displayed as unknown character when added at the beginning of a paragraph 0007413: [Usability] Edit Contents of Frame should restrict user intervention only to content of a frame 0004901: [User Interface] Snapping guides interfere with the new autoframes 0007063: [Typography] Impossible to insert a NonBreakableSpace into the search replace text tool inside the Editor Ctrl+Y 0011574: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Usability : Pasting text should not paste the paragraph style 0008725: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Font settings for text frames in the Document Setup are ignored 0010235: [Usability] In Single Page mode you should Center the page in the Viewport (Ctrl+0) 0009123: [Styles] delete multiple paragraph styles 0001036: [User Interface] Severe performance problem on documents with very large number of linked frames 0011548: [Tables] Changing the settings for table borders in the PP doesn't affect the table or cells 0014019: [Language Tools] Readme file for permission of hyphenator file (cbradney) 0013278: [Translation] [OSX] Non-Switching Translation of OSX System Dropdowns 0014046: [Usability] The link textframe icon changes between it's starting position and when actually using it 0008100: [User Interface] Two-Way Arrow for line-handle movement is broken 0008119: [Story Editor / Text Frames] All text Effects (like Subscript/Superscript) not working as expected 0009260: [Templates] File is copied even if "Save as Template" has been cancelled 0007584: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Automatic Textframes of generated new page are at the wrong position 0011046: [Usability] Adding page w/Text frames in to preexisting Automatic Text Frames will bump said text frames to last page outside of canvas 0010171: [Usability] Default zoom stepping to big 0011750: [Tables] Clicking inside currently edited table's cell should move editing place where the click has occured 0012466: [Styles] Using previously imported style, text displays as squares glyphs (occurs when parent style doesn't get imported w/ child style) 0003503: [Import / Export] FileWatcher removes item preview if file save in another app takes too long 0009043: [General] Edit->"Advanced Select All" does not function correctly on "Current page" 0004662: [General] Switching basic document layout leaves master pages intact (AKA updating single to double or vice-versa doesn't +/- masterpage) 0012414: [OS-MacOSX] Qt Touchpad event: OSX two finger tap on mouse trackpad triggers a scroll event along with right click menu 0013698: [Canvas] Missing Redraw of Selected Page Border 0001060: [User Interface] Permit negative degrees in Rotation field within Properties > X,Y,Z tab (example: -30 degrees instead of 330 degrees) 0013887: [Shape Drawing] Arrows should snap to the end of the arrow (and not the base of the arrow instead) for margins/marks/grids/objects etc... 0008042: [Shape Drawing] Origins of straight line objects are calculated incorrectly 0010464: [User Interface] When moving mouse from selected object to scrollbar, the "hand" cursor remains on scrollbar 0004851: [Import / Export] Bullet lists in sxw files are imported as numbered lists 0010441: [Import / Export] SVG exports bad page numbers 0012424: [Canvas] Resizing Welded Items leads to strange results 0010963: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Cursor forgets position of text frame when opening Story Editor 0007804: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Apply paragraph style after column break skips 1st paragraph in second column 0011873: [Import / Export] Odd behaviour of items in imported IDML files 0011775: [Usability] Link tool unexpected offset 0013237: [Plug-ins] [OSX] Some 128 barcodes series do not insert 0011952: [User Interface] Character Palette UI enhancements 0012225: [Undo/Redo] Undo is not able to restore a Barcode 0003426: [Internal] double clicking a sla file when scribus is already opened opens a second instance of scribus 0013701: [User Interface] Different OK/Cancel position across all UI (nitramr) 0006241: [Usability] Not possible to make mouse selection through multiple linked frames (avox) 0013709: [User Interface] Replace all UI and tooltip occurences of "Weld" with "Couple" (cbradney) 0001752: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field 0009120: [Translation] Term for vector objects (cbradney) 0006428: [General] Line colour isn't displayed correctly if blend modes are applied (christoph_s) 0012271: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Search & Replace: screws formatting (ale) 0003096: [OS-Win32] Network shares unavailable on file open/save dialog (jghali) 0008446: [PDF] Wrong PDF Export of Shadowed and outlined Text with OTF Font (avox) 0004071: [PDF] Allow embedding fonts on a per page basis (avox) 0004422: [PDF] LinuxLibertine Bold Underline not correctly subsetted (christoph_s) 0003701: [Import / Export] PDF export: better UI for Font Embedding (avox) 0005322: [Language Tools] Hyphenation patterns distributed without license and copyright information (cbradney) 0012985: [Fonts] Improve font-checking script: discards potentially dangerous fonts during launch (avox) 0011542: [Import / Export] Issue with table rendering in IDML files (fschmid) 0008254: [Printing] Page becomes rotated 90 degrees clockwise when printing to postscript level 3 (fschmid) 0004379: [Download Manager] Basic pattern sets for inclusion in Scribus (cbradney) 0005584: [Fonts] problem with transparency of an icon in the font replacement dialog (avox) 0003825: [Import / Export] Scribus embeds formerly used fonts (avox) 0011891: [Import / Export] Page selector needed for multi-page XAR, IDML, VIVA XML, PUB files (fschmid) 0011546: [Import / Export] PUB import: Characters not imported correctly (fschmid) 0011660: [Import / Export] IDML import : inter-line vertical space not imported correctly (fschmid) 0007799: [Canvas] bigger canvas scroll area (christoph_s) 0009515: [General] Converting to image frame doesn't work for combined polygons (fschmid) 0013063: [General] Debug output when moving icons (cbradney) 0008023: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Quotation marks menu not very usable (cbradney) 0004187: [OS-Win32] (De)Installer removes files added by user (jghali) 0012514: [OS-MacOSX] Scribus Logo swapped for Qt logo on SLA window header (cbradney) 0009551: [Documentation] Add the 1.4 file format specification to to the docs (christoph_s) 0007604: [Scripter] New Scripter Dialog Request (subik) 0001398: [Import / Export] Improve memory efficiency of raster image export (jghali) 0004938: [Usability] Guides are applied even if guide manager is closed (subik) 0009716: [PDF] Layer-based bookmark (PDF) disable option. (fschmid) 0007393: [PDF] NeedAppearances flag (fschmid) 0013717: [Qt5 Port] SE Tooltips popup far from their actual source (cbradney) 0013436: [Import / Export] Rendering artifacts (antialiasing) on imported PS file 0009656: [Canvas] impossible to move a guide if you click over an item (jghali) 0002063: [OS-MacOSX] Integration into Mac Color Tool (cbradney) 0013114: [Usability] Preferences > Page Sizes does not report any page size, just format names (nitramr) 0004317: [User Interface] Allow docking of a tabbed version of the entries in the "Windows" menu (nitramr) 0017150: [Properties Palette] Hatch colors are not part of getNamedResources() (nitramr) 0017056: [Canvas] Page margin rect inherits drop shadow properties of line item (jghali) 0017087: [User Interface] Spiral Edit Dialog doesn't allow angle greater than 360° (jghali) 0014056: [User Interface] Drag/Drop of ODT to text frame should trigger the OpenDocument Importer menu (cbradney) 0017039: [General] Crash on startup if file recovery fails (jghali) 0016780: [Scripter] Add in scripter function to get the page numner of an item (cbradney) 0011718: [Usability] Functional problems with rulers and guide lines (jghali) 0014147: [General] Scribus eventually will need to use new smart pointers (unique_ptr and shared_ptr) (jghali) 0005530: [Styles] a style named "No Style" behaves wrong (ale) 0008118: [Scripter] Allow get/set of item attributes in scripter (jghali) 0013614: [Translation] Non-translatable date format codes in PDF fields (cbradney)

0012515: [User Interface] Suggestion to improve indication that Scribus is in Master Pages edit mode 0010661: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Pasting from MacOSX Pages discards text formatting. 0000553: [User Interface] two clicks on object enable rotating 0001123: [Printing] Save printer settings 0003930: [User Interface] Automatic scrolling 0009786: [Styles] Style manager always opens to the right 0002841: [Shape Drawing] start a selection and try to go beyond the visible page. scribus does not automatically scroll up/down 0009527: [General] simply selecting guide can move it (a problem if for example working w/ align&distribute dialog) 0012206: [User Interface] Bad display of Picture Browser 0017346: [User Interface] Missing tooltips and UI fixes (nitramr) 0010128: [General] let the user add new document sizes in the preferences (nitramr) 0010192: [General] [Patch] Virtual page number in addition to strict page number (cezaryece) 0007563: [Graphics / Image Frames] Preflight Verifier: report underfull image frames (subik) 0000967: [Printing] CLI option -p (cbradney) 0016671: [User Interface] Support for Universal macOS binary / Apple Silicon (cbradney) 0014676: [Color Management] Support for the Color Exchange Format (CxF) (jghali)

0014800: [Import / Export] Hyphenation instructions don't work with copied and pasted text 0014361: [Color Management] warn if cmyk colors are in use but no icc profile could be found 0003822: [Fonts] Stroke of letters overlap the inside of the letters themselves. 0014121: [Story Editor / Text Frames] VariableText-Marks get repeated on linebreak 0014175: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Error in page number (“Reference to Mark”) when anchors are in linked text frames 0014473: [General] Opacity value in Layers palette not working if only one layer 0001778: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Support vertical text (Japanese, etc) (avox) 0014181: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Deleting text with anchor marks triggers crash (jghali) 0012588: [Usability] Master Page import Improvements (ale)

0015391: [PDF] Enable unmanaged or "raw" PDF export of fill colours 0014105: [Graphics / Image Frames] When inline image is rotated, applying 'Adjust frame to image' off-centers inline viewport 0014416: [User Interface] after text to path, box doesn't refresh when moving with arrow keys 0014442: [Import / Export] KRA import filter doesn't support layers 0002576: [User Interface] Add a GUI to create user dictionaries for hyphenation and short words (and spellchecking) 0014208: [Usability] If item are rotated then "Snap to Items" does not work well 0014212: [Undo/Redo] Deleting an image with a long path or name, increases the width of the "Edit > Redo" dropdown menu item. 0013156: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Insert carret cant be seen 0013748: [Qt5 Port] Ability to move dirs/files in to Qt File dialog to other folders 0012268: [Story Editor / Text Frames] End button makes cursor jump to beginning of next line 0012458: [Undo/Redo] X-Pos/Y-Pos shown in Action History do not correspond to Properties > X,Y,Z 0005457: [User Interface] Rotated text frame is erroneous added to all Master Pages when it bleeds off the page. 0014096: [Canvas] Cursor Canvas Refresh issue 0010429: [Scrapbook] Delete button in the Scrapbook dialog (nitramr) 0014461: [Translation] The '\n' within the <source> tag is missing in <translation> tag (Kunda)

0015729: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Orphans and widows options don’t behave as expected 0003345: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Paste text without formatting 0009990: [Fonts] Feature request to easily edit font list display 0012494: [User Interface] + and - should be the default keys for zooming in and out 0014604: [General] New exported anchors marks /OR/ store marks pagenumber into SLA 0014587: [Usability] Scribus doesn't explain why some images cannot be imported 0014124: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Column for Line Numbers in Marks Manager 0009320: [Import / Export] Not able to export in vector mode ... 0011033: [General] add a lock layout button 0011081: [Styles] Height of 'fixed' line should not be hardcoded to 15 (but instead a generated number based on chosen char size) 0009497: [Scrapbook] have a way to set the displayed name for the scrapbook 0012061: [Scrapbook] Scrapbook dragndrop should trigger snapping 0006880: [General] Flip items without flipping their content 0004713: [General] Keep text on a path editable (directly on canvas) 0012895: [PDF] When PDF text is reflowed in Adobe Acrobat XI, spaces are missing 0010672: [Canvas] Add an option to rotate the canvas... 0011366: [User Interface] Uneven display of strokes of selected frames 0012932: [Plug-ins] Provide an API for plugins 0013244: [Usability] Broken Application Flow 0013182: [Scripter] Scripter Console dialog to have buttons instead of using dropdown 0004854: [General] Option to save the action history with a document (in order to undo/redo across sessions) 0001630: [User Interface] A macro recorder to build a script automatically from users actions. (Tsoots) 0009507: [User Interface] Modal dialogs block access to the Help Browser 0004579: [General] Document statistics 0013113: [-] HLC Colour Picker 0013119: [General] A better way to organise colour palettes 0013120: [User Interface] Improvements to the colour editor 0013087: [3rd Party] PyLaTeX - A Python library for creating LaTeX files 0010703: [Import / Export] Enhancement Request: Import Graphics via HTTP or URI/URL 0003111: [User Interface] Improvement of color management/ICC options 0000460: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Drop caps with more than one character 0001137: [Graphics / Image Frames] More possibilities to choose text wrap and text flow around picture frames 0007976: [User Interface] Ability to hide text in frames (blocks of grey instead of rendered glyphs?) to speed up screen disaply 0002876: [User Interface] "hide all but this layer" button/shortcut in the layers palette 0006517: [Fonts] Document specific font paths (define a Fontpath just for one specific document) 0011061: [Import / Export] Warn at PDF export if overprinting is used 0005643: [Fonts] Activation of freshly installed fonts without app restart 0005940: [Usability] Add systemwide busy cursor while waiting for Scribus to finish the work 0004683: [PDF] Printing marks (crop, bleed, color bars, etc.): Size settings needed 0003403: [Story Editor / Text Frames] trapping zones and trapping styles 0002100: [General] Tab leader alignment 0000185: [General] Allow frames on master pages to have content when applied to normal pages. 0005928: [Usability] control of page numbers in Master Pages to include parallel page numbering etc. 0000835: [General] RTM (Real Time Measurement) attached to guides and frames 0001421: [General] Forcing measurement ruler to snap to increments of 45 degrees (or like)... 0004170: [General] Custom guides colors 0008007: [Usability] add support for sticky notes 0001663: [User Interface] ability to assign shortcut keys to the running of a script 0006829: [Import / Export] Display resulting file size in the "Export as Image(s)" dialog 0012800: [Import / Export] Loss of italics formatting after importing *.odt files and applying paragraph styles 0005174: [General] Auto Guides can't be used for the distribution of items 0012134: [General] Opening the Master Page dialog is recorded as a document change 0011182: [Language Tools] [Multi-threading] Launching the new spellchecker takes extremely long 0000990: [Plug-ins] Mail-Merge (update: Scribus Generator) (ale) 0002128: [Fonts] Cache font info for startup (avox) 0000238: [General] New CL option: scribus --to-pdf <scribus-file> <output.pdf> (cbradney) 0011630: [Usability] Moving Scrapbook items precisely into position is difficult (outline the shape would be nice) (fschmid) 0002205: [Import / Export] PSD import doesn't work if the image is grayscale or in 16bit depth (fschmid) 0005206: [Import / Export] Support for DOCX (OpenXML) import/export (fschmid) 0013144: [Import / Export] Incorrect import of FH10 file (fschmid) 0013121: [Import / Export] Read/write support for Adobe Swatch Exchange files (fschmid) 0013110: [Import / Export] Option to extract and edit clipping paths from raster files (fschmid) 0003343: [General] Let guides snap to objects 0002663: [Styles] indexing (cbradney) 0016450: [Properties Palette] Add 90° "rotate left" "rotate right" buttons (nitramr) 0005750: [Story Editor / Text Frames] Break text by unlinking text frames (avox)

0017265: [User Interface] Indigo UI: Image Properties Redesign 0017304: [General] spacing in the new document dialog (nitramr) 0017247: [User Interface] Indigo UI: New Document Dialog (nitramr) 0017180: [Properties Palette] Indigo UI: Properties Palette Redesign (nitramr) 0015915: [Properties Palette] Indigo UI: refactor the Color and Line panels (ale) 0005748: [User Interface] Some issues with Arrange Pages tab. (nitramr) 0013927: [Usability] Make better use of available horizontal space for document pages in "Arrange Pages" (display master page names on the sides) (nitramr) 0017285: [User Interface] Indigo UI: Text Properties Palette Redesign (+Style Manager Adjustments) (nitramr) 0017345: [User Interface] UI resizing issue of preferences dialog (nitramr) 0015896: [Properties Palette] [PATCH] Indigo UI: shrink the size of the XYZ pane (nitramr) 0017341: [General] Crash when you change first line offset of a table text frame (nitramr) 0017342: [User Interface] New doc dialog: Visibility of Informational labels is inverted (nitramr) 0017343: [User Interface] Fixes: Selected frame color doesn't respect preferences + new icon colors (nitramr) 0017337: [User Interface] Render issues of gradients in color picker (nitramr) 0017338: [General] Small fixes for 1.7.0svn (nitramr) 0010539: [Typography] Optical margins, protrusion into the left margin doesn't work (nitramr) 0015241: [User Interface] the preferences window does not retain it's size (nitramr) 0016806: [User Interface] Better pane titles (nitramr) 0017318: [User Interface] Add PDF options for annotation and bookmarks in properties palette (nitramr) 0017320: [User Interface] Improved View-Toolbar (nitramr) 0017321: [User Interface] Ruler tab edit mode looks blurry on non-retina displays (nitramr) 0013226: [User Interface] Irritating new icon: Copy Item Properties (nitramr) 0017322: [User Interface] Tabruler style match style of document ruler (nitramr) 0017325: [General] Table of Content: "Style of TOC Entry" style combobox show wrong style name (nitramr) 0017328: [User Interface] Tab cursor has missing white outline (nitramr) 0017330: [User Interface] Add missing UI tooltips (cbradney) 0017331: [General] Iconset clean up (cbradney) 0016849: [User Interface] Properties for First line, right and left indents (nitramr) 0017276: [User Interface] Fixed 1.7.0 icons (nitramr) 0017277: [User Interface] ColorButton preview is not highres (nitramr) 0017282: [General] Page preview don't support section numbers (nitramr) 0017283: [General] Fixes for UI widgets (nitramr) 0015914: [Properties Palette] Indigo UI: Store the content / properties palette's panel collapsing status in the preferences (nitramr)       0015553: [User Interface] [Patch] Indigo UI: Store the text palette's tab status in the preferences (nitramr) 0017262: [Import / Export] Version interoperability (cbradney) 0016509: [User Interface] Update layout for Text Properties: unify buttons, layout, new (nitramr) 0017289: [Import / Export] Enable File->Save As to older version (cbradney) 0011417: [User Interface] Reduced size of the "Colours" tab in the PP (nitramr) 0016883: [User Interface] Ugly/Unreadable Arrange Pages / Document Pages labels (nitramr) 0016898: [User Interface] Scribus' application layout starts empty (nitramr) 0012892: [Usability] Color Management: Color Menu width increases with each use of Color Management feature (nitramr) 0012143: [User Interface] (PP) Drop shadow subpane not greyed when not usable (fschmid) 0017266: [General] Outliner does not update the tree view when docked (nitramr) 0017268: [User Interface] ScribusMainWindow::editMasterPagesStart() open empty page palette window (nitramr) 0016988: [User Interface] Implement IndigoUI collapsible section container as UI widget (nitramr) 0013541: [Color Management] Triangle warning Icon missing (nitramr) 0017022: [User Interface] Improve UI of CurveEditWidget (nitramr) 0016979: [User Interface] Implement AdvancedDockingSystem as replacement for QDockWidget (nitramr) 0014974: [User Interface] Min Height of Arrange Page palette (nitramr) 0016622: [General] arrange pages > page previews (nitramr) 0014847: [General] Thumbnails of Pages in Arrange Pages Palette (nitramr)

0017332: [General] Change from Conical gradient to mesh Gradient generate new color names 0017279: [User Interface] Workaround for QPalette bug 0017350: [Canvas] Auto guide grid messed up when changing document measurement unit (jghali) 0017339: [General] Scribus never read preferences of guide color and baseline color (nitramr) 0016113: [Properties Palette] "Optical margins" is invalid for Chinese punctuation. (nitramr) 0017261: [General] Update German Dictionary (cbradney) 0017264: [User Interface] ScrSpinBox: Alt key modifier doesn't work on Linux (nitramr) 0017267: [OS-MacOSX] New MacOS app and document icons (nitramr)