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.

• • 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 - DONE
  • 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 <meta key>+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 - DONE
  • 651 Enhancements to the Help Browser - DONE
  • 689 bese inserting linespoint of lines cannot be set to the middle or diagonal one
  • 691 - DONE
  • 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.
  • 1033? TIFF not found in non-US path - DONE
  • 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)
  • 1099 Inline graphics - DONE
  • 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 - 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
  • 1358 Ability to apply a template to all odd (or even) pages to a range of pages in Page>Apply template - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1540? Issue with stylesheet and emphasis like italic or bold fonts
  • 1552 Smallest word in Hyphenator Settings falls short by one letter - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1574 Story Editor: Deleting words with CTRL+Backspace/CTRL+DEL - DONE
  • 1578 Zoom-Tool zooms wrong document area
  • 1592 New textframes not linkable to "Autoframes"
  • 1593 Paste in Story Editor leads to "reformating" in Storyeditor - DONE
  • 1594 inserting a page number, by the documented cntrl + # , does not work - DONE
  • 1595 insert page number- Menu Item - DONE
  • 1598 - assigned Missing prefence to text importer
  • 1601 - to be tested - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1620 give the default margins a usable value - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1635 cursors for instruments
  • 1638 wrong sequence of menus - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1663 ability to assign shortcut keys to the running of a script
  • 1670 multipled tab spaces in story editor are ignored in text-frame - DONE
  • 1671 - needs testing
  • 1673 Image offset within frame is wrong for scaled images
  • 1674 - assigned - DONE
  • 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 - DONE
  • 1730 - Distribute/Align doesn't correctly distribute space - DONE
  • 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.