1.3.x Roadmap Extras

Further to the 1.3.x Roadmap, this page lists feature requests and bugs that we hope to get done in 1.3.x as well.


 * 81 Ability to change page orientation after document creation
 * 131 Ability to have various typographic spacing (thin, en and em spaces) breakable and non-breakable... (subset if the "1.3.4 Hyphenation improvements # 417".)
 * 168 Single click should place text cursor
 * 185 Allow frames on templates to have content when applied to normal pages.
 * 187 (extra optional tags on frames to be more specific)
 * 201 paragraph indent/tabulator disturbed by a floating image
 * 204 Drop Cap only for the first paragraph
 * 212 Ability to create initial vertical space at the beginning of a column
 * 221/ 1106/1391 Selecting text in a multi-column text is a chore/ Cursor doesn't follow the text flow from one column to another in multi-columns layouts see also #1505
 * 231 Add in ability to import Colour Sets into current document
 * 237 Enable Toggling low-res / high - res display of picture on the canvas
 * 250 Add control-click/drag for lines to keep to 45 degree angles
 * 262 Aligning objects based on the position of the first selected object - DONE
 * 273 More PDF presentation effects wanted
 * 294 Word spacing (dup ?)
 * 304 predefined styles for text
 * 305 Column borders should be shown
 * 306 Copying pages in Scripter
 * 315 Zooming with Mouse
 * 316 Image- and textframe creation by dragging from the right to the left side, and fom down to up isn´t possible
 * 321 vertical aligning
 * 328 Ability to have line attributes (ie no style but changed settings) and styles per frame line
 * 331 Enabled click and +click to create new frame
 * 344 Numbering in Multiple Duplicates
 * 349 If a file is saved under a default name under a non-English locale it does not show up in the "Recent documents" submenu.
 * 371 Edit>Preferences>Fonts...>Available Fonts needs column sorting
 * 378 normal, dissolve, overlay, difference, and other modes of transparancy
 * 390 Accurate vertical and horizontal (objects/nodes/lines) moving with Ctrl key
 * 393 SVG inside a picture frame
 * 398 kerning information not updated when selecting text
 * 403 Edit>Edit Styles>Append does not allow to choose the style to import like template append does.
 * 405 Drag rulers to measure things
 * 410 Applying the line spacing to a paragraph
 * 415 rules above or below paras request
 * 451 Tools>Scrapbook needs to be made consistent with "Layers"
 * 452 Tools>Bookmarks look is inconsistent with other dialogs
 * 453 Tools>Outline dialog should be made consistent with other dialogs.
 * 454 Tools>Page Palette look need to be slightly tweaked and the name changed
 * 459 template items could detach for stacking, moving, editing, deletion, on local pages
 * 460 drop-cap with # of letters, or first word(s). subsequent paras shift-return for newline, no dropcap
 * 461 drop-cap position for hanging, jutting, etc
 * 466 Positioning printouts on the page
 * 480 Being able to *switch* items in the Distribute/Align menu
 * 482 Illogical behaviour when resizing/moving a frame below another. Ctrl should not be required to do the action.
 * 492 Footnotes which stay on the same page as the associated word
 * 498 Typography Preference Settings as part of Paragraph Styles
 * 502? Multiselection in items Overview
 * 504 We need more accuray object selection
 * 505 Object sellection with Ctrl
 * 509 Vertical Ruler: Numbers in wrong units or cut off
 * 512 Better guide dialog
 * 516 Improved Picture Search
 * 532 enable right-click in the object list
 * 533 move objects in the object-tree
 * 555 rotating objects without rotate-cursor ?
 * 569 Insert Special window is modal, complicating multiple insertions of special characters
 * 575 (in general multiple application of properties)
 * 577 Paragraph Styles -> Kerning and language options missing
 * 579 right-click paragraph, save as paragraph style
 * 607 Align=center causes wrong cursor positioning
 * 633! Drop caps not reaching to the top, and other issues (This is very needed. Text is planned in 1.3.3 but this is a very ancient bug. PV)
 * 651 Enhancements to the Help Browser
 * 689 bese inserting linespoint of lines cannot be set to the middle or diagonal one
 * 691 inserting lines
 * 697 ctrl+end / ctrl+home should move to the very end/beginning of the textframe
 * 717 rename objects in object tree by context menu not ony by right click
 * 835 Measurement attachment to the guides and frames
 * 889 inverse bezier tool handling
 * 923 Object size in Multiple Duplicates
 * 945 option to choose between temporar and permanent font substitution ?
 * 950 The search and replace dialogue should not be modal because the way it is now you cannot cut and paste into it.
 * 956 Add a "duplicate layer" feature
 * 969 SVG text alignment wrong
 * 990 Mail-Merge
 * 1006 white text is not visible in SE
 * 1008 ?
 * 1012 check
 * 1022 Enhanced DPI export of pages as images
 * 1032? Request: PDF Bookmarks at arbritrary locations within text frames.
 * 1033? TIFF not found in non-US path
 * 1034 Edit Paste disabled after copy from another program, but Control V works
 * 1037 GetTextLength returns 0 for non-empty frame
 * 1039 converting multiple text frames to outlines
 * 1042 show more information when importing pictures
 * 1069 Auto-adjust size of text box to the text
 * 1074 Tab Leaders
 * 1067 Shift-drag
 * 1085 Better text on path control
 * 1083 Smaller font size for tool palettes
 * 1086 Lines styles with two or more parallel lines
 * 1094 Importing multipage PDFs must give options for importing a selection of pages see also 1352 (dup)
 * 1099 Inline graphics
 * 1101 Add in general align tools in Distribute/Align - DONE
 * 1102 Make all functions from Right click context menu appear on Item menu - DONE
 * 1109 Inserting shapes / pictures / frames with click needs default size
 * 1118 Give instant access to Style editor from within the Properties palette>Text
 * 1117 Right indent in Edit Style dialog
 * 1175 Switching between GUI languages from within Scribus - MOSTLY DONE
 * 1212 styles for drop caps
 * 1215 Toolbars cannot be hidden once palettized
 * 1223 Make non-printable "characters" visible - DONE
 * 1252 configure doesn't detect missing headers from the libart_lgpl package
 * 1318? Execute Script' crashes Scribus when built against a thread-enabled Python debug build
 * 1321 Individual DPI settings
 * 1342 auto adding of pages
 * 1365 Convert text on a path to outlines
 * 1358 Ability to apply a template to all odd (or even) pages to a range of pages in Page>Apply template
 * 1393 Printing Ignores Landscape
 * 1398 Improve memory efficiency of raster image export
 * 1401 moving objects in one of axis with mouse + keyboard
 * 1406 Add text metrics to scripter
 * 1410 Allow automatic text frames after document has been started
 * 1423 Single key-stroke to kern letters...
 * 1462 Lines (borders) on frames are drawn from the center of the edge to the outside
 * 1463 Add pdf export "templates"
 * 1474 RTF Import
 * 1475 Bad hyphenating implementation
 * 1485 Set pt as the default unit for Above and Below in the Paragraph Style dialog
 * 1488 Being able to resize a straight line or change its angle from any end-points
 * 1518 PrefsTable breaks if indexing is started from (1,0)
 * 1519 In Layout-mode, align works only on a per sentence/paragraph basis
 * 1532 Layers palette enhancements
 * 1534 PATCH: Informative user feedback when PDF/X3 and colour management
 * 1540? Issue with stylesheet and emphasis like italic or bold fonts
 * 1552 Smallest word in Hyphenator Settings falls short by one letter
 * 1558 Item > Distribue/Align, should be ever present and a toolbar - DONE
 * 1569 regression from 1.2
 * 1571 Setting of View -> Snap to guide and Snap to grid doesn't save
 * 1572 Text flows around frame does not work correct in page templates
 * 1574 Story Editor: Deleting words with CTRL+Backspace/CTRL+DEL
 * 1578 Zoom-Tool zooms wrong document area
 * 1592 New textframes not linkable to "Autoframes"
 * 1593 Paste in Story Editor leads to "reformating" in Storyeditor
 * 1594 inserting a page number, by the documented cntrl + #, does not work
 * 1595 insert page number- Menu Item
 * 1598 - assigned Missing prefence to text importer
 * 1601 - to be tested
 * 1602? insert a color picker to pick colors from pictures etc - DONE
 * 1605 - could be fixed by separate text field in file ?
 * 1619 Create Shortcut for Story-Editor
 * 1620 give the default margins a usable value
 * 1622? Splitting the import menu
 * 1627 improvement for handling changes in images on disc
 * 1629 A need to run menu items from the scriptor for automation purposes - assigned
 * 1630 A macro recorder to build a script automatically from users actions. [IN PROGRESS]
 * 1633-assigned plugins manager [IN PROGRESS]
 * 1635 cursors for instruments
 * 1638? wrong sequence of menus
 * 1648 Ability to get the line count in a text frame
 * 1650 Inserting a picture frame triggered a crash
 * 1659 Editing overlapping frames is very challenging because when selected, a frame retains its stacking order
 * 1661 - prolly a dup Selecting multiple paras and changing style only affects one para
 * 1663 ability to assign shortcut keys to the running of a script
 * 1670 multipled tab spaces in story editor are ignored in text-frame
 * 1671 - needs testing
 * 1673 Image offset within frame is wrong for scaled images
 * 1674 - assigned
 * 1677 Change "Kerning" to "Tracking" in UI to more accurately reflect function - DONE
 * 1678 Search in Picture Management should search user specified directory list, pick up all matching images in dir.
 * 1681 - patch included
 * 1730 - Distribute/Align doesn't correctly distribute space - DONE


 * New from Template toolbar button?
 * Tweak "save as template" - current UI is IMO confusing
 * In Preferences->Ruler, button to reset ruler scale to default or to screen DPI
 * Tweak nudge behaviour when snap to guides on
 * Tweak drag object behaviour when within snap distance of two different guides on the same axis
 * Editable template mechanism
 * Fix extreme performance issue when dragging complex vector selections like text converted to outlines
 * redraw issues
 * Try to avoid widows and orphans automatically? bug 132


 * Options for performance (eg, antialiasing, dragging of groups showing item outlines, etc)
 * A way to place PDF and EPS files containing mixed type, vector, and raster graphics such that they're not output rasterised to PDF or PS.


 * Compiling as a KDE Application by option, pure Qt only when KDE is not found. Gives us a lot of goodies for free.
 * Riku's new Preferences class for easy access to storage/load/save of settings from both main program and plugins
 * Managability features: Configurable template search path (probably in scribus.rc), ability to specify scribus.rc path with snippets to merge. Better description coming. Prompted by discussion with mlurie.

Optional Extras

 * KDE/WebDAV integration
 * Database and network storage
 * 'Edit in helper' (related to above) to edit text in an external app, as the current GIMP integration does it.
 * Scanner support Aquire from scanner, like in gimp
 * Digikam support
 * Dynamic Templates
 * Using Scribus objects via Scripter (like ScribusView.ActualPage.Item[1].SetText('bah')) => need to study python docs hard ;) (sip? )


 * Automatically select smallest printer-supported ISO (or US, where LC_PAPER is en_US) paper size that job will fit on when printing.