1.3.x Roadmap Extras
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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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 1540? Issue with stylesheet and emphasis like italic or bold fonts
- 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]
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- 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.
- 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.