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. Many items which were here have been migrated to the Roadmap as they are completed.


 * 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
 * 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 isnÂ´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
 * 689 bese inserting linespoint of lines cannot be set to the middle or diagonal one
 * 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 - DONE
 * 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 - DONE
 * 1008 ?
 * 1012 check
 * 1022 Enhanced DPI export of pages as images
 * 1032? Request: PDF Bookmarks at arbritrary locations within text frames.
 * 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 - DONE
 * 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)
 * 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
 * 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 - DONE
 * 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
 * 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
 * 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
 * 1540? Issue with stylesheet and emphasis like italic or bold fonts
 * 1569 regression from 1.2
 * 1571 Setting of View -> Snap to guide and Snap to grid doesn't save
 * 1578 Zoom-Tool zooms wrong document area
 * 1592 New textframes not linkable to "Autoframes"
 * 1598 - assigned Missing prefence to text importer
 * 1605 - could be fixed by separate text field in file ?
 * 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]
 * 1635 cursors for instruments
 * 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
 * 1663 ability to assign shortcut keys to the running of a script
 * 1671 - needs testing
 * 1673 Image offset within frame is wrong for scaled images
 * 1678 Search in Picture Management should search user specified directory list, pick up all matching images in dir.
 * 2264 - Support more PDF/X-x versions
 * 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.