User-Developer Interaction

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Introduction

From a Scribus meeting at LGM 2012 has come an idea to promote interactions between experienced users and the developers, in order to facilitate various operations these users commonly do with Scribus. This will also benefit casual users, of course.

Some initial discussions centered around more ease with bringing various objects, such as images, shapes, vector graphics, and even text. There is some limited ability to simply drag an image (from Dolphin, for example) onto a document page, and have a frame automatically created for it. This may not (yet) cover all image file formats. There is also an ability to drag SVGs from a file management app as well. With text files, you can only drag to an empty text frame, only plain text will appear, in other words, it's not suitable for ODT or even DOC files, since the various tags in the file are not stripped.

Another work in progress is the ability to export directly from Scribus to ePub format. There is a plugin in the works, not yet ready to incorporate into svn.

Finally, the Properties palette is undergoing some major changes in 1.5.0svn, and these initial efforts should be soon available in svn updates. This is not completely redesigned, so there will be a need for more interaction between users and developers to help guide the process.