Scribus - Roadmap
Scheduled For Release 2017-06-30
- 0005503: [User Interface] Remove dividers between quotation marks entries (cbradney)
- 0012219: [General] PDF export directory presets
- 0003543: [Shape Drawing] seperate top/right/bottom/left border options
- 0011045: [Translation] rename clipping options in the pre-press tab
- 0007663: [OS-Win32] network inline image path wrong
- 0013395: [Printing] Picture's shadow not printed
- 0012195: [User Interface] [PATCH] more progressive unzoom when < 100%
- 0017023: [Translation] Strange placeholder/suffix for strings in ts file on Transifex
- 0011551: [Tables] Table/cell indication is clumsy
- 0011357: [User Interface] Improve Symbols Dialog
- 0016740: [Import / Export] Pre-Flight verifier finds no issues but still requires "Ignore issues"
- 0004751: [Usability] Some file dialogs use unreasonable default directories
- 0010690: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Unwanted change in text size
- 0012809: [User Interface] Style edit Dialog shrinks after deleting style
- 0010417: [Fonts] Missing font is proposed to replace missing font
- 0008211: [Typography] English Hypenation makes too many errors
- 0009306: [Templates] deleting a custom template does not delete its files from ~/.scribus/templates/{template_name}/
- 0011679: [Shape Drawing] Incorrect Line Pattern
- 0011729: [Shape Drawing] Explicit Point for Rotation Base
- 0009588: [User Interface] Missing error message when pasting on locked background shape
- 0011560: [User Interface] "Is Locked" attribute functionality doesn't match documentation
- 0009937: [Styles] More options in line styles
- 0013772: [Import / Export] ODT Document importer doesn't understand all styles
- 0013893: [Import / Export] Some text wrapping is broken / renders differently when opening a Scribus 1.4.x file with Scribus 1.5.2
- 0012246: [Shape Drawing] Provide more "out" line ends (arrows)
- 0005806: [PDF] PDFs generated using export aren't always reliably searchable in Acrobat reader in certain conditions
- 0010555: [Shape Drawing] objects drawn to grid, exceed grid by linewidth.
- 0013789: [Internal] Interpret ~ (home directory) symbol in Export/Save fields
- 0006270: [General] Invalid position X,Y inside PDF link POP UP menu.
- 0007754: [Shape Drawing] Import contour line
- 0011112: [Canvas] still some blurred frame borders...
- 0011861: [Plug-ins] [Barcode] Allow for storing barcode-related data within a SLA file, so these can be edited after creation
- 0013149: [Import / Export] 1.5.x doesn't load 1.3.3.1 .sla grouped items correctly.
- 0012661: [User Interface] Wording for "pattern" = "symbols"
- 0010676: [Shape Drawing] editing bezier curves may be impossible on some backgrounds
- 0011092: [Shape Drawing] Default "habillage" mode in preference
- 0012024: [Import / Export] Add a warning to the XPS exporter
- 0013713: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Character attributes of bullets in bullet-lists gets changed upon re-opening file (cbradney)
- 0003622: [Documentation] Allow Scribus to search for additional directories for docs
- 0009601: [Typography] (RFEs) wordwrap problem for Korea (and east Asia)
- 0006230: [Graphics / Image Frames] Feature request: alignment of images within an image frame
- 0001087: [Printing] Add Ignore Non-Printing setting to print dialog
- 0004663: [Fonts] Two different fonts with the same name should appear as two fonts in the font list (avox)
- 0013584: [Usability] Metabug: AutoSave & AutoRecover
- 0006553: [User Interface] Add some options for the Edit (or context) menu "edit image"
- 0007986: [Usability] add "sectioning" into Document Setup > Sections
- 0001036: [User Interface] Severe performance problem on documents with very large number of linked frames
- 0009123: [Styles] delete multiple paragraph styles
- 0013698: [Canvas] Missing Redraw of Selected Page Border
- 0014176: [Usability] Insert Two Variable Text and Backspace --> Crash
- 0003423: [Text Frames / Story Editor] remaining problems with resizing multiple text boxes
- 0014030: [Scrapbook] cannot add three times an item with the same name to the scrapbook
- 0005554: [General] Column-break is displayed as unknown character when added at the beginning of a paragraph
- 0007413: [Usability] Edit Contents of Frame should restrict user intervention only to content of a frame
- 0004901: [User Interface] Snapping guides interfere with the new autoframes
- 0007063: [Typography] Impossible to insert a NonBreakableSpace into the search replace text tool inside the Editor Ctrl+Y
- 0011574: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Usability : Pasting text should not paste the paragraph style
- 0008725: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Font settings for text frames in the Document Setup are ignored
- 0010235: [Usability] In Single Page mode you should Center the page in the Viewport (Ctrl+0)
- 0011548: [Tables] Changing the settings for table borders in the PP doesn't affect the table or cells
- 0014019: [Language Tools] Readme file for permission of hyphenator file (cbradney)
- 0013278: [Translation] [OSX] Non-Switching Translation of OSX System Dropdowns
- 0014046: [Usability] The link textframe icon changes between it's starting position and when actually using it
- 0008119: [Text Frames / Story Editor] All text Effects (like Subscript/Superscript) not working as expected
- 0009260: [Templates] File is copied even if "Save as Template" has been cancelled
- 0007584: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Automatic Textframes of generated new page are at the wrong position
- 0011046: [Usability] Adding page w/Text frames in to preexisting Automatic Text Frames will bump said text frames to last page outside of canvas
- 0010171: [Usability] Default zoom stepping to big
- 0011750: [Tables] Clicking inside currently edited table's cell should move editing place where the click has occured
- 0012466: [Styles] Using previously imported style, text displays as squares glyphs (occurs when parent style doesn't get imported w/ child style)
- 0003503: [Import / Export] FileWatcher removes item preview if file save in another app takes too long
- 0009043: [General] Edit->"Advanced Select All" does not function correctly on "Current page"
- 0004662: [General] Switching basic document layout leaves master pages intact (AKA updating single to double or vice-versa doesn't +/- masterpage)
- 0012414: [OS-MacOSX] Qt Touchpad event: OSX two finger tap on mouse trackpad triggers a scroll event along with right click menu
- 0001060: [User Interface] Permit negative degrees in Rotation field within Properties > X,Y,Z tab (example: -30 degrees instead of 330 degrees)
- 0013887: [Shape Drawing] Arrows should snap to the end of the arrow (and not the base of the arrow instead) for margins/marks/grids/objects etc...
- 0008042: [Shape Drawing] Origins of straight line objects are calculated incorrectly
- 0010464: [User Interface] When moving mouse from selected object to scrollbar, the "hand" cursor remains on scrollbar
- 0004851: [Import / Export] Bullet lists in sxw files are imported as numbered lists
- 0010441: [Import / Export] SVG exports bad page numbers
- 0012424: [Canvas] Resizing Welded Items leads to strange results
- 0010963: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Cursor forgets position of text frame when opening Story Editor
- 0007804: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Apply paragraph style after column break skips 1st paragraph in second column
- 0011873: [Import / Export] Odd behaviour of items in imported IDML files
- 0011775: [Usability] Link tool unexpected offset
- 0013237: [Plug-ins] [OSX] Some 128 barcodes series do not insert
- 0011952: [User Interface] Character Palette UI enhancements
- 0012225: [Undo/Redo] Undo is not able to restore a Barcode
- 0003426: [Internal] double clicking a sla file when scribus is already opened opens a second instance of scribus
- 0003701: [Import / Export] PDF export: better UI for Font Embedding (avox)
- 0003096: [OS-Win32] Network shares unavailable on file open/save dialog (jghali)
- 0011660: [Import / Export] IDML import : inter-line vertical space not imported correctly (fschmid)
- 0013701: [User Interface] Different OK/Cancel position across all UI (nitramr)
- 0006241: [Usability] Not possible to make mouse selection through multiple linked frames (avox)
- 0013709: [User Interface] Replace all UI and tooltip occurences of "Weld" with "Couple" (cbradney)
- 0001752: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Use selected text in SE search/replace as the basis for the search field
- 0009120: [Translation] Term for vector objects (cbradney)
- 0006428: [General] Line colour isn't displayed correctly if blend modes are applied (christoph_s)
- 0012271: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Search & Replace: screws formatting (ale)
- 0008446: [PDF] Wrong PDF Export of Shadowed and outlined Text with OTF Font (avox)
- 0004071: [PDF] Allow embedding fonts on a per page basis (avox)
- 0004422: [PDF] LinuxLibertine Bold Underline not correctly subsetted (christoph_s)
- 0012985: [Fonts] Improve font-checking script: discards potentially dangerous fonts during launch (avox)
- 0011542: [Import / Export] Issue with table rendering in IDML files (fschmid)
- 0008254: [Printing] Page becomes rotated 90 degrees clockwise when printing to postscript level 3 (fschmid)
- 0004379: [Download Manager] Basic pattern sets for inclusion in Scribus (cbradney)
- 0005584: [Fonts] problem with transparency of an icon in the font replacement dialog (avox)
- 0003825: [Import / Export] Scribus embeds formerly used fonts (avox)
- 0011891: [Import / Export] Page selector needed for multi-page XAR, IDML, VIVA XML, PUB files (fschmid)
- 0011546: [Import / Export] PUB import: Characters not imported correctly (fschmid)
- 0007799: [Canvas] bigger canvas scroll area (christoph_s)
- 0009515: [General] Converting to image frame doesn't work for combined polygons (fschmid)
- 0013063: [General] Debug output when moving icons (cbradney)
- 0008023: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Quotation marks menu not very usable (cbradney)
- 0004187: [OS-Win32] (De)Installer removes files added by user (jghali)
- 0009551: [Documentation] Add the 1.4 file format specification to to the docs (christoph_s)
- 0007604: [Scripter] New Scripter Dialog Request (subik)
- 0001398: [Import / Export] Improve memory efficiency of raster image export (jghali)
- 0004938: [Usability] Guides are applied even if guide manager is closed (subik)
- 0009716: [PDF] Layer-based bookmark (PDF) disable option. (fschmid)
- 0007393: [PDF] NeedAppearances flag (fschmid)
- 0012514: [OS-MacOSX]
Scribus Logo swapped for Qt logo on SLA window header(cbradney) - 0008100: [User Interface]
Two-Way Arrow for line-handle movement is broken(nitramr) - 0007137: [User Interface]
Support Icon Naming Spec for Themes(cbradney) - 0003827: [Releases]
Create an MSI package for Scribus(cbradney) - 0007287: [Shape Drawing]
Add to ability change basepoint of lines(nitramr) - 0010166: [Usability]
Styles: Enter key in Name field opens New button drop-down menu(cbradney) - 0005322: [Language Tools]
Hyphenation patterns distributed without license and copyright information(cbradney) - 0013717: [Qt5 Port]
SE Tooltips popup far from their actual source(cbradney) - 0013436: [Import / Export]
Rendering artifacts (antialiasing) on imported PS file - 0009656: [Canvas]
impossible to move a guide if you click over an item(jghali) - 0002063: [OS-MacOSX]
Integration into Mac Color Tool(cbradney) - 0013114: [Usability]
Preferences > Page Sizes does not report any page size, just format names(nitramr) - 0004317: [User Interface]
Allow docking of a tabbed version of the entries in the "Windows" menu(nitramr) - 0017150: [Properties Palette]
Hatch colors are not part of getNamedResources()(nitramr) - 0017056: [Canvas]
Page margin rect inherits drop shadow properties of line item(jghali) - 0017087: [User Interface]
Spiral Edit Dialog doesn't allow angle greater than 360°(jghali) - 0014056: [User Interface]
Drag/Drop of ODT to text frame should trigger the OpenDocument Importer menu(cbradney) - 0017039: [General]
Crash on startup if file recovery fails(jghali) - 0016780: [Scripter]
Add in scripter function to get the page numner of an item(cbradney) - 0011718: [Usability]
Functional problems with rulers and guide lines(jghali) - 0014147: [General]
Scribus eventually will need to use new smart pointers (unique_ptr and shared_ptr)(jghali) - 0005530: [Styles]
a style named "No Style" behaves wrong(ale) - 0008118: [Scripter]
Allow get/set of item attributes in scripter(jghali) - 0013614: [Translation]
Non-translatable date format codes in PDF fields(cbradney)
24 of 145 issue(s) resolved View Issues
Scheduled For Release 2017-12-31
- 0017458: [Import / Export] When importing odt files, some text is lost
- 0000553: [User Interface] two clicks on object enable rotating
- 0012515: [User Interface] Suggestion to improve indication that Scribus is in Master Pages edit mode
- 0001123: [Printing] Save printer settings
- 0003930: [User Interface] Automatic scrolling
- 0009786: [Styles] Style manager always opens to the right
- 0002841: [Shape Drawing] start a selection and try to go beyond the visible page. scribus does not automatically scroll up/down
- 0009527: [General] simply selecting guide can move it (a problem if for example working w/ align&distribute dialog)
- 0012206: [User Interface] Bad display of Picture Browser
- 0001096: [Graphics / Image Frames] Picture frame padding (nitramr)
- 0017571: [User Interface] Add button group ui widget (nitramr)
- 0017522: [User Interface] New Color Slider widget (nitramr)
- 0017476: [General] Automatic detection of page size format (nitramr)
- 0000967: [Printing] CLI option -p (cbradney)
- 0010568: [Usability] The Layer color on the Outline Palette, a new feature request. (nitramr)
- 0010128: [General] let the user add new document sizes in the preferences (nitramr)
- 0010192: [General] [Patch] Virtual page number in addition to strict page number (cezaryece)
- 0007563: [Graphics / Image Frames] Preflight Verifier: report underfull image frames (subik)
- 0017533: [Text Frames / Story Editor]
Scribus crashes when changing text color inside a table(jghali) - 0017511: [User Interface]
The Styles drop-downs in the Text Properties panel grow in size horizontally(nitramr) - 0017514: [User Interface]
Graphic glitches in FontComboBox if UI theme has transparency(nitramr) - 0017115: [Usability]
New Page Sizes(cbradney) - 0017466: [General]
The new "Edit Shape" menu item misbehaves(nitramr) - 0017473: [Fonts]
Characters disappeared when opening "old" files(nitramr) - 0017481: [User Interface]
Remove Dark/Light theme switch for Qt < 6.8.0(nitramr) - 0017482: [Canvas]
Selection frame has a 1px offset(nitramr) - 0017486: [Build System]
Compiler error when building with Qt 6.9.0(jghali) - 0017391: [User Interface]
Add Dark/Light theme switch to override automatic mode(nitramr) - 0016547: [User Interface]
Update Layout for Node Editor 2(nitramr) - 0013991: [Shape Drawing]
Node Editor lacks good multiple-node-selection functionality(nitramr) - 0011676: [Shape Drawing]
symmetrical control points doesn't support length deviation(nitramr) - 0008884: [Shape Drawing]
shortcut to delete shape's nodes(nitramr) - 0017364: [Canvas]
Improved Node Editing(nitramr) - 0017440: [Text Frames / Story Editor]
Enable HTML Text to be pasted as plain text(cbradney) - 0010661: [Text Frames / Story Editor]
Pasting from MacOSX Pages discards text formatting.(cbradney) - 0017346: [User Interface]
Missing tooltips and UI fixes(nitramr) - 0017381: [User Interface]
New floating colour popups don't behave well on Windows(jghali) - 0016671: [User Interface]
Support for Universal macOS binary / Apple Silicon(cbradney) - 0014676: [Color Management]
Support for the Color Exchange Format (CxF)(jghali)
21 of 39 issue(s) resolved View Issues
Scheduled For Release 2020-02-23
Hopefully addressed in the next development cycle
- 0014800: [Import / Export] Hyphenation instructions don't work with copied and pasted text
- 0014361: [Color Management] warn if cmyk colors are in use but no icc profile could be found
- 0003822: [Fonts] Stroke of letters overlap the inside of the letters themselves.
- 0014121: [Text Frames / Story Editor] VariableText-Marks get repeated on linebreak
- 0014175: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Error in page number (“Reference to Mark”) when anchors are in linked text frames
- 0001778: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Support vertical text (Japanese, etc) (avox)
- 0014181: [Text Frames / Story Editor]
Deleting text with anchor marks triggers crash(jghali) - 0012588: [Usability]
Master Page import Improvements(ale)
2 of 8 issue(s) resolved View Issues
Scheduled For Release 2020-02-24
Not optional, but not too important
- 0015391: [PDF] Enable unmanaged or "raw" PDF export of fill colours
- 0014105: [Graphics / Image Frames] When inline image is rotated, applying 'Adjust frame to image' off-centers inline viewport
- 0014416: [User Interface] after text to path, box doesn't refresh when moving with arrow keys
- 0014442: [Import / Export] KRA import filter doesn't support layers
- 0002576: [User Interface] Add a GUI to create user dictionaries for hyphenation and short words (and spellchecking)
- 0014208: [Usability] If item are rotated then "Snap to Items" does not work well
- 0014212: [Undo/Redo] Deleting an image with a long path or name, increases the width of the "Edit > Redo" dropdown menu item.
- 0013156: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Insert carret cant be seen
- 0013748: [Qt5 Port] Ability to move dirs/files in to Qt File dialog to other folders
- 0012268: [Text Frames / Story Editor] End button makes cursor jump to beginning of next line
- 0012458: [Undo/Redo] X-Pos/Y-Pos shown in Action History do not correspond to Properties > X,Y,Z
- 0005457: [User Interface] Rotated text frame is erroneous added to all Master Pages when it bleeds off the page.
- 0014096: [Canvas] Cursor Canvas Refresh issue
- 0010429: [Scrapbook] Delete button in the Scrapbook dialog (nitramr)
- 0014461: [Translation]
The '\n' within the <source> tag is missing in <translation> tag(Kunda)
1 of 15 issue(s) resolved View Issues
Scheduled For Release 2020-02-25
Bugs and Features that possess some degree of importance but have no assigned release date yet.
- 0017564: [Styles] Styles SELECT doesnt order styles in Style Edit palette.
- 0017562: [Text Frames / Story Editor] New autotypo² with glyph replacement for point médian use in inclusive writing
- 0003111: [User Interface] Improvement of color management/ICC options
- 0003345: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Paste text without formatting
- 0015729: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Orphans and widows options don’t behave as expected
- 0009990: [Fonts] Feature request to easily edit font list display
- 0012494: [User Interface] + and - should be the default keys for zooming in and out
- 0014604: [General] New exported anchors marks /OR/ store marks pagenumber into SLA
- 0014587: [Usability] Scribus doesn't explain why some images cannot be imported
- 0014124: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Column for Line Numbers in Marks Manager
- 0009320: [Import / Export] Not able to export in vector mode ...
- 0011033: [General] add a lock layout button
- 0011081: [Styles] Height of 'fixed' line should not be hardcoded to 15 (but instead a generated number based on chosen char size)
- 0009497: [Scrapbook] have a way to set the displayed name for the scrapbook
- 0012061: [Scrapbook] Scrapbook dragndrop should trigger snapping
- 0006880: [General] Flip items without flipping their content
- 0004713: [General] Keep text on a path editable (directly on canvas)
- 0012895: [PDF] When PDF text is reflowed in Adobe Acrobat XI, spaces are missing
- 0010672: [Canvas] Add an option to rotate the canvas...
- 0011366: [User Interface] Uneven display of strokes of selected frames
- 0012932: [Plug-ins] Provide an API for plugins
- 0013244: [Usability] Broken Application Flow
- 0013182: [Scripter] Scripter Console dialog to have buttons instead of using dropdown
- 0004854: [General] Option to save the action history with a document (in order to undo/redo across sessions)
- 0001630: [User Interface] A macro recorder to build a script automatically from users actions. (Tsoots)
- 0009507: [User Interface] Modal dialogs block access to the Help Browser
- 0004579: [General] Document statistics
- 0013113: [-] HLC Colour Picker
- 0013119: [General] A better way to organise colour palettes
- 0013120: [User Interface] Improvements to the colour editor
- 0013087: [3rd Party] PyLaTeX - A Python library for creating LaTeX files
- 0010703: [Import / Export] Enhancement Request: Import Graphics via HTTP or URI/URL
- 0000460: [Text Frames / Story Editor] Drop caps with more than one character
- 0000835: [General] RTM (Real Time Measurement) attached to guides and frames
- 0007976: [User Interface] Ability to hide text in frames (blocks of grey instead of rendered glyphs?) to speed up screen disaply
- 0002876: [User Interface] "hide all but this layer" button/shortcut in the layers palette
- 0006517: [Fonts] Document specific font paths (define a Fontpath just for one specific document)
- 0011061: [Import / Export] Warn at PDF export if overprinting is used
- 0005643: [Fonts] Activation of freshly installed fonts without app restart
- 0005940: [Usability] Add systemwide busy cursor while waiting for Scribus to finish the work
- 0004683: [PDF] Printing marks (crop, bleed, color bars, etc.): Size settings needed
- 0003403: [Text Frames / Story Editor] trapping zones and trapping styles
- 0002100: [General] Tab leader alignment
- 0000185: [General] Allow frames on master pages to have content when applied to normal pages.
- 0005928: [Usability] control of page numbers in Master Pages to include parallel page numbering etc.
- 0001421: [General] Forcing measurement ruler to snap to increments of 45 degrees (or like)...
- 0004170: [General] Custom guides colors
- 0008007: [Usability] add support for sticky notes
- 0001663: [User Interface] ability to assign shortcut keys to the running of a script
- 0006829: [Import / Export] Display resulting file size in the "Export as Image(s)" dialog
- 0012800: [Import / Export] Loss of italics formatting after importing *.odt files and applying paragraph styles
- 0005174: [General] Auto Guides can't be used for the distribution of items
- 0012134: [General] Opening the Master Page dialog is recorded as a document change
- 0011182: [Language Tools] [Multi-threading] Launching the new spellchecker takes extremely long
- 0000238: [General] New CL option: scribus --to-pdf <scribus-file> <output.pdf> (cbradney)
- 0000990: [Plug-ins] Mail-Merge (update: Scribus Generator) (ale)
- 0002128: [Fonts] Cache font info for startup (avox)
- 0011630: [Usability] Moving Scrapbook items precisely into position is difficult (outline the shape would be nice) (fschmid)
- 0002205: [Import / Export] PSD import doesn't work if the image is grayscale or in 16bit depth (fschmid)
- 0005206: [Import / Export] Support for DOCX (OpenXML) import/export (fschmid)
- 0013144: [Import / Export] Incorrect import of FH10 file (fschmid)
- 0013121: [Import / Export] Read/write support for Adobe Swatch Exchange files (fschmid)
- 0013110: [Import / Export] Option to extract and edit clipping paths from raster files (fschmid)
- 0001137: [Graphics / Image Frames]
More possibilities to choose text wrap and text flow around picture frames(nitramr) - 0003343: [General]
Let guides snap to objects - 0002663: [Styles]
indexing(cbradney) - 0016450: [Properties Palette]
Add 90° "rotate left" "rotate right" buttons(nitramr) - 0005750: [Text Frames / Story Editor]
Break text by unlinking text frames(avox)
5 of 68 issue(s) resolved View Issues