Keyboard Shortcuts by Key

Function Keys

Function	Shortcut
Show Help Manual	F1
Toggle Properties Palette	F2
Toggle Style Editor dialog	F3
	F4
	F5
Toggle Layers Palette	F6
	F7
	F8
	F9
Toggle All Guides	F11
Toggle All docked palettes	F12

Control, Shift, Alt Keys

Function	Shortcut
Select All	Control-A
Deselect All	Control-Shift-A
Copy	Control-C
Get Text or Image	Control-D
Item Duplicate	Control-Alt-Shift-D
Search and Replace	Control-F
Lock Item	Control-L
Lock Item Size	Control-Shift-L
Group Items	Control-G
Document Information	Control-I
Delete Item	Control-K
New File	Control-N
Open File	Control-O
Print	Control-P
Quit	Control-Q
Save	Control-S
Save As	Control-Shift-S
Ungroup Item	Control-Shift-G
Paste	Control-V
Close File	Control-W
Cut	Control-X
Edit with Story Editor	Control-Y
Undo	Control-Z
Redo	Control-Shift-Z
Select All	Control-A
DeSelect All	Control-Shift-A
Zoom to fit	Control-0
Zoom to 100%	Control-1
Zoom In	Control-Plus
Zoom Out	Control-Minus
Zoom In/Out	Control-Mousewheel
Smart Hyphen	Control-Shift-Minus
Non Breaking Space	Control-Space
Insert Page Number	Control-Alt-Shift-P
Raise	Control-Home
Lower	Control-End
Raise to top	Home
Lower to bottom	End
Frame Break	Control-Return
Column Break	Control-Shift-Return
Stacked Objects, next in Z-order	Control-Shift-LMouse
Resizing object when other object on top	Control-drag
Resize proportionally	Control-drag
Move image in image frame without entering frame edit mode	Control-Alt-drag
Move frame/group with X/Y constrained	Control-drag
Rotate a line or when creating a line, constrain the angle of rotation	Control-drag and rotate
Rotate an existing item on the page other than a line and constrain the angle of rotation	Control-drag and rotate
Resize to a square	Shift-drag
New Line	Shift-Return
Scale text	Alt-Shift-drag
Scale text proportionally	Alt-Control-drag
Move item 1 unit (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Arrow keys
Move item 0.1 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Shift+Arrow keys
Move item 10 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Control+Arrow keys
Move item 0.01 units (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Control+Shift+Arrow keys
Resize item 1 unit outwards (current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Alt+Arrow keys
Resize item 1 unit inwards(current: pt,mm,in,c,p,cm)	Shift+Alt+Arrow keys
Move to start of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas	Control Up Arrow
Move to end of paragraph in text edit mode on canvas	Control Down Arrow
Move to start of frame in text edit mode on canvas	Control Page Up
Move to end of frame in text edit mode on canvas	Control Page Down
Resize image while in image frame edit mode on canvas	Alt+Arrow keys

Normal Keys Shortcuts

Function	Shortcut
A	Insert Table Frame
B	Insert Bezier Curve
C	Select (Temporary until the rest are sorted out)
E	Edit Contents (text in a text frame, or image location in an image frame)
F	Insert Freehand Line
I	Insert Image Frame
N	Link Text Frame
L	Insert Line
P	Insert Polygon
R	Rotate
S	Insert Shape
T	Insert Text Frame
U	Unlink Text Frame
Z	Zoom

Other powerfull keyboard modifiers actions

Quite standard for linux applications :

• CTRL + MOUSEWHEEL UP or DOWN enables to quickly zoom in or out

• CTRL + MOUSEDRAG on the canvas enables to move the current viewport

Specifics to Scribus :

• In the style edition dialog, when selecting a font, a very long menu has to be scrolled through all installed fonts. CTRL + MOUSEWHEEL enables to scroll one whole screen down or up.

• When in Image Editing mode (double click on an image frame first), SHIFT + MOUSEDRAG enables to rotate the image

User Notes / Questions

Looking at the Gnome HIG, wonder if you would consider Ctrl++ for Zoom in and Ctrl+- for Zoom out?
Inkscape and Gimp just use + or - --Cbradney 10:05, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Votes++ --Joeboy 17:53, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Went with Control +/- so you can still zoom while typing. --Cbradney 23:39, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Wonder if you would consider for the Story Editor

Ctrl+Shift+U for 'Update Text Frame and Exit' ?

(Ctrl+U is 'Update Text Frame')

I'm still to rewrite the menu system for Story Editor --Cbradney 23:39, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)