Revision as of 20:46, 14 February 2011

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Real table support

Skills required: C++, Qt4 knowledge
Scribus lacks real table support. Currently if one wants to have a table he will need to make it in external application and paste it as PS.
Tables need to become a new kind of object (aside from image and text objects).

Scribus should do the layouting, including ensuring row height is big enough to provide enough room for the text, the same for columns (plus text wrapping and/or eliding). A possibility for table to flow over several pages should be available.
Scribus should allow importing data from CSV [and other sorts of data] easily (like specifying delimiter, " symbol handling -- see how openoffice.org it does).
Easy way to navigate through the cells, and doing table-wide formatting (of all features, text, lines, background...) are much needed.

Completing at least first item of this list will count as a success for the project.

First line indent must be available in the PP (and everything that's available in the Styles must be in the PP too)
PP and Styles sorted out (see above)
Undo/Redo.
Filters to clean-up text at Get Text.
Style Manager (If it was me, I would start from scratch. Just a suggestion. The bugtracker is full of nice ideas about the SM)
Improve Hyphenation Settings (this could also be discussed with many of the apps using text, right?) — include a hyphenation exception list (from a text file, not like it is now — remember, too many clicks...)
Allow thin space in Short Words (or by any other automated way): a must in French typography and a blocking issue for pros.
Make the text runaround image easier than the actual way (text again)
Clean-up the UI so we have less clics and overall a much smoother workspace.
Add whatever we miss in the interactive PDF (this is a very powerful tool)
Make the Render Frame work on OS X (if it does, make it work for everyone, it never worked for me on any machine)
Add export to PDF/X-1a (de facto standard in Norh America)

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 # Improve Hyphenation Settings (this could also be discussed with many of the apps using text, right?) — include a hyphenation exception list (from a text file, not like it is now — remember, too many clicks...)
 # Allow thin space in Short Words (or by any other automated way): a must in French typography and a blocking issue for pros.
+# Make the text runaround image easier than the actual way (text again)
+# Clean-up the UI so we have less clics and overall a much smoother workspace.
+# Add whatever we miss in the interactive PDF (this is a very powerful tool)
+# Make the Render Frame work on OS X (if it does, make it work for everyone, it never worked for me on any machine)
+# Add export to PDF/X-1a (de facto standard in Norh America)
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