Mantis Issue Tracker for Scribus - Issues

0017975: Compound text chain operations create multiple Undo steps

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:25:49 +0000

* Groups compound text-chain operations into a single Undo/Redo transaction.
-- Multi-frame Chain: `[A] [B] [C]` → Chain → `A → B → C` → one Undo → `A B C`
-- Before/After insertion: inserting S into `A → B → C` now undoes/redoes as one operation.
-- Multi-selection Break Text Chain and Split Text now undoes/redoes as one operation.
* Reuses the existing low-level `PageItem::link()`, `unlink()`, and `unlinkWithText()` undo states inside an enclosing transaction.
* Preserves current chain order, text-flow behaviour, selection semantics, serialisation, and single-link Undo behaviour.
* Keeps draw-new-frame-and-chain Undo handling out of scope.

0017974: Arrange Pages' binding icon disappears after theme change

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:25:23 +0000

#Issue:
-- Switching between light and dark themes makes the binding-direction icon in Arrange Pages → Document Pages effectively disappear.
-- The button remains present and functional, but its icon retains the previous theme’s colours and loses contrast.
-- Restarting Scribus restores the correct icon.

#Cause:
-- `PageLayouts` creates the stateful binding-direction icon only during construction.
-- Theme changes rebuilds the `IconManager` cache, but `PageLayouts` routes `iconSetChanged()` through `languageChange()`.
-- That path rebuilds the Scheme and First Page controls but does not reload the binding-direction icon.

#Fix:
-- Adds a dedicated `iconSetChange()` handler for theme-driven icon updates.
-- Centralizes rebuilding of all `PageLayouts` icon-bearing controls in `updateIcons()`.
-- Recreates both checked and unchecked binding-direction pixmaps from the current icon set.
-- Preserves the current Scheme and First Page selections and blocks signals while rebuilding their menus.
-- Keeps translated labels and tooltips in `languageChange()`, then refreshes controls whose menu entries combine translated text and icons.
-- Removes the constructor-only binding-icon initialisation.

0018014: Fix spurious move/undo actions after page import

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:25:06 +0000

- Selecting an imported frame incorrectly records a Move action in Action History, even though the frame hasn't moved.
- Undo/Redo can subsequently displace imported objects.

Fix:
- Baseline: r27881.
- Synchronise imported items' position, size and page-ownership undo baselines after placement.
- Include imported group children.
- Preserve normal Move/Resize tracking and Undo/Redo behaviour.

0017942: 'Group/move/ungroup/move' undo issue

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:24:34 +0000

Undoing a group after moving causes undo/redo issue

0018013: [patch] Fix master-page import undo/redo grouping

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:12:40 +0000

- Importing a master page with objects generates multiple independent Action History entries.
- Undo progressively removes individual objects/properties instead of reversing the complete import.

Patch fix:
- Baseline: Pristine r27881.
- Wrap the complete master-page import in a single `UndoTransaction`.
- Group master creation, objects and properties into one Undo/Redo action.
- Support multiple selected masters within the same transaction.
- Guard empty selections and retain undoable history on partial import failure.

0018012: [patch] Fix inline object corruption during page import

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:47:03 +0000

Importing inline objects could corrupt Undo/Redo state, create stray frames and crash Scribus when closing the document.

## Fix:
- Baseline: r27881 + PIL1 v1.05 (from 0018011).
- Prevent repeated inline-object creation and source-ID collisions.
- Remap inline-object references without modifying existing destination objects.
- Correct inline-object ownership and Undo/Redo handling, preventing stray objects and close-time crashes.

0018011: [patch] Fix linked text frames during page import

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:44:48 +0000

Importing pages with linked text frames could break cross-page chains, resulting in missing text or text overflow.

## Fix:
- Baseline: Pristine r27881.
- Restore cross-page text-frame links using import-scoped ID mapping, independent of import order.
- Correct imported page-object positioning and destination margin handling.
- Warn when preceding frames of a linked story are not imported.
- Harden import failure handling and page-attribute Undo/Redo.

0018010: Difficulty Opening Scribus File

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:18:31 +0000

I have been working on a manuscript file on Scribus and have been saving it successfully with no issues. However, when I tried opening it up again a few days ago I received a Fatal Error message out of the blue that read:

File /home/hannah/Documents/Miracles Through Life Art Book.sla is not in an acceptable format
The file may be damaged or may have been produced in a later version of Scribus.

.

0018008: [patch] Automatic PDF bookmarks from heading

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:25:45 +0000

Adds automatic, hierarchical PDF bookmarks generated from document paragraph styles while retaining manually configured bookmarks.

Baseline: r27881 + HPT series (from 0018004)

### hbm1-pdf-outline-foundation-v1.04.patch
- Introduces an export-only PDF outline tree, separating PDF serialization from the manual bookmark model.
- Preserves manual bookmark hierarchy and actions.
- Handles partial-page exports, excluding invalid destinations while retaining surviving children.

## hbm2-heading-bookmark-configuration-v1.06.patch
- Adds heading-bookmark configuration in Document Setup.
- Maps paragraph styles to six bookmark levels using compact, single-click controls.
- Persists configuration in SLA, including style rename/deletion handling.
- Provides alphabetical style ordering, disabled-state handling and compact table sizing.

## hbm3-heading-bookmark-generation-v1.10.patch
- Generates hierarchical PDF bookmarks from styled headings in document order.
- Integrates manual and automatic bookmarks while preserving manual hierarchy.
- Suppresses matching generated duplicates in favour of manual bookmarks.
- Provides consistent 30 pt navigation headroom while preserving customised manual actions.
- Supports linked text frames, partial PDF exports and frame-local heading collection.

0018007: [patch] Detect and update outdated ToCs in Preflight

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:11:50 +0000

Generated Tables of Contents can become outdated after document changes without a reliable freshness warning or convenient update workflow. Here is a proposal.

Baseline: r27881 + HPT series (from 0018004)

## tcu1-toc-freshness-foundation-v1.06.patch
- Adds read-only freshness detection for attribute-based and style-based ToCs.
- Distinguishes current content, outdated content and invalid configurations.
- Implements complete-story undo/redo for ToC regeneration, including linked frames.
- Avoids unnecessary regeneration and undo entries when content is unchanged.

## tcu2-update-all-tocs-preflight-v1.05.patch
- Integrates ToC freshness warnings into Preflight.
- Adds Update All ToCs to Preflight and the Extras menu.
- Groups multi-ToC regeneration into one undo transaction.
- Adds PDF export handling for outdated ToCs, including Update and Export and Export Anyway.

0018004: [patch] Make PDF table of contents hyperlinked

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:55:59 +0000

- Currently, style-based ToC entries are not clickable in exported PDFs, requiring manually placed link annotations.
- This 3-patch series adds automatic internal navigation without changing document appearance or PDF export options.

## hpt1-document-reference-foundation-v1.04.patch

- Introduces persistent paragraph anchor IDs and link-target metadata, independent of experimental Notes/Marks.
- Adds SLA persistence and reference lifecycle handling for editing, duplication and copy/paste.
- Remaps paragraph identities during GUI/scripted page imports, preventing duplicate IDs and ambiguous destinations.

## hpt2-pdf-text-link-export-v1.03.patch

- Generates internal PDF link annotations from laid-out text geometry, including wrapped entries.
- Resolves destinations through deferred annotation writing; safely skips invalid or ambiguous targets.
- Preserves existing annotations, PDF/X restrictions and viewer zoom; adds 30 pt destination headroom.

## hpt3-clickable-style-based-toc-v1.00.patch

- Associates generated ToC entries with persistent source-heading anchors.
- Enables automatic clickable navigation, including after save/reopen and ToC regeneration.
- Requires one ToC regeneration for documents created before this feature.

0017998: apply paragraph style to multiple table cells at once

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:55:46 +0000

In in scribus/pageitem_table.cpp and scribus/scribusdoc.cpp ScribusDoc::itemSelection_ApplyParagraphStyle currently silently collapses a multi-cell selection to just the active cell, so paragraph styles only ever applied to one cell at a time. The fix delegates to a new PageItem_Table::setSelectedCellsParagraphStyle() method that applies the style to every selected cell's text frame.

0018006: Image frame: locked aspect ratio in Properties > X, Y, Z keeps the frame's ratio, not the image’s, leaving a gap

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:49:28 +0000

A common layout task is to make a placed image span the text area exactly, from the left margin to the right margin. With an image frame whose proportions differ from the image (for example, a frame drawn by hand before loading the image), there is no direct way to do this.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Draw an image frame and load an image whose proportions differ from the frame's.
2. Content Properties (F3) > Scaling: select "To Frame Size" and check "Proportional".
3. Properties (F2) > X, Y, Z > Geometry: close the "Keep the aspect ratio" chain, set Basepoint to top-left, set X-Pos to the left margin, and set Width to the page width minus both margins.

Expected: the frame height follows the image's proportions, and the image fills the frame edge to edge.

Actual: the frame height is scaled by the frame's previous width/height ratio. Because the image is fitted with the smaller of the two scale factors and anchored at the frame's top-left corner, a gap remains on the right (or at the bottom).

Current workaround: Item > Adjust > Adjust Frame to Image first, then close the chain and set the Width. The adjacent command Item > Adjust > Adjust Image to Frame does nothing in this situation, which makes the workaround hard to discover.

0018005: Importing text doesn't recognize special characters

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:38:37 +0000

While importing text to a text frame from a separate text file (.txt) the special character aren't recognized. The characters are recognized if they are directly written to the text frame.
Unrecognized charaters found: å, ä, ö, ü, ß, é, ç, ñ, €

Text file:
Scribus testi

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
.,?+-@€#
åäöüßéçñ

Imported text:
Scribus testi

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
1234567890
.,?+-@â‚¬#
Ã¥Ã¤Ã¶Ã¼ÃŸÃ©Ã§Ã±

0014976: [OBSOLETE] Enable to search and replace "none" style (for paragraphs)

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:39:39 +0000

The "Search and Replace" tool proposes to replace paragraph styles, but it doesnt enable to set a style to paragraphs that have no styles.

Please add a "No style" (Use same langage string as in the PP paragraph style SELECT) option in the paragraph style search SELECT and treat it as a way to set a style to paragraphs that have no styles : replace "No style" with "some style" ("some style" being choosen in the "replace with" style SELECT in right part of "search and replace" dialog).

0002737: [OBSOLETE] Regression Loading large doc from 1.2.x

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:36:35 +0000

Attached is a 1001 page test created in 1.2.2 and 1.2.4cvs opens it fine. Current cvs hangs loading it - even for 35 mins.

0018003: [patch] Fix ToC/index regeneration undo/redo

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:36:48 +0000

Issues:
- ToC regeneration produced misleading “Selection - Delete” history entries, while Undo/Redo could duplicate or corrupt content (see clip).
- Unchanged regeneration also created unnecessary history entries.

These 2 patches fix those, and also include related correctness, hardening and code-quality improvements.

## tru1-toc-undo-regeneration-v1.03.patch

- Make ToC/index regeneration a single undoable transaction.
- Restore complete text and formatting during Undo/Redo, including linked-frame stories.
- Suppress history entries when generated content is unchanged.
- Use dedicated Action History labels: “Document - Update Table of Contents” and “Document - Update Index”, as appropriate.
- Handle automatic numbering marks safely and protect destinations containing persistent marks.
- Prevent duplicated or corrupted content across repeated Undo/Redo cycles.

## tru2-toc-regeneration-hardening-v1.04.patch

- Fix temporary paragraph-style memory leaks.
- Correct index page-number sorting, duplicate handling and mixed-case alphabetical grouping.
- Improve empty-result handling and validate page references.
- Harden null-pointer and missing-style-parent handling.
- Reduce redundant notifications and unnecessary processing.
- Improve regeneration progress messages and simplify related code.

0018000: [patch] Improve object movement, snapping and live drag feedback

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:36:13 +0000

Scribus currently uses an outline-only drag preview rather than live object movement, and its snapping feedback is fragmented across movement paths. This series unifies the movement path and improves direct manipulation without changing document data or file format.

## `omi1-selection-center-marker-v1.02.patch`

- Adds a centre/reference marker for selected objects, groups and multi-selections. Fixed screen size; no document-data changes.

## `omi2-selection-movement-improvements-v1.06.patch`

Improves movement/snapping:
- Unified single/multi-selection snapping.
- Centre snapping to items, guides and page geometry.
- Better rotated-target bounds and sub-point movement.
- Shared preview/final snap delta.
- Improved Create/Resize snap feedback and auto-scroll.
- Magenta snap/alignment feedback lines.

## `omi3-live-object-movement-v1.06.patch`

Adds live object movement instead of outline-only dragging.
- Geometry commits once on release.
- Preserves stacking/clipping/transparency.
- Supports groups, multi-selection and linked-frame feedback.
- Esc cancels and restores the original position.
- Nested Alt-selected group children retain outline fall-back.

0018002: [patch] Clean up deprecated Qt API warnings (low-risk code cleanup)

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:27:50 +0000

Removes five compiler warning sites across four Scribus source files.

- `proptree.cpp`: Removes the deprecated `QStyle::State_Editing` check, which is obsolete in Qt 6.
- `charselect.cpp`: Replaces two deprecated `QString::fromUcs4(uint*)` calls with `char32_t`-compatible conversions.
- `propertywidget_pareffect.cpp` / `smpstylewidget.cpp`: Applies the same Unicode API modernisation to custom bullet-character handling.
- Preserves existing `QVector` interfaces, Unicode code-point values and intended behaviour.
- No functional changes, UI changes or new dependencies intended.
- Build/link: Passed. Targeted warning elimination and runtime tests remain unverified.

0017997: [patch] Improve text overflow marker and overflow information

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:26:35 +0000

Here is an attempt to improve the current X overflow mark. (r27881)

## ofm1-overflow-marker-polish-v1.03.patch

Improves the text-frame overflow marker and its interaction.

- Replaces the old X with a clearer `+`.
- Adds compact stepped zoom-aware sizing.
- Keeps the marker consistently red, independent of selection state.
- Centralises marker geometry via `overflowMarkerRect()`.
- Improves rotated-frame hit-testing and keeps the hit area inside the frame.
- Uses the existing `cursor-link-text-frame` cursor over actionable overflow markers.
- Removes the obsolete commented-out `drawOverflowMarker()` implementation.

## ofm2-overflow-statistics-status-v1.02.patch

Improves overflow information for text frames and linked stories.

- Adds `OverflowTextStats` for word, character and paragraph counts.
- Replaces the old character/whitespace tooltip with compact **Text overflow** information.
- Shows overflow information in Edit mode while keeping linking as a Select-mode action.
- Adds `Text overflow: N words` to the status bar for the selected story.
- Reports the final-frame overflow when any frame in the same chain is selected.
- Removes the old `frameOverflowCount()` / `frameOverflowBlankCount()` helpers.
- Avoids forced layout/recomposition.

0015215: Wishlist: Markup languages support

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:23:49 +0000

As recently the discussion on formatted text frame import is emerging in Scribus mailing list I hereby open a list of markup languages wishes.

0017999: Markdown importer overrides line spacing from paragraph style

Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:21:41 +0000

The Markdown importer ("Get Text...") currently sets a line spacing style directly on the text node being imported to:

Expected behaviour is respecting the line spacing set in the default paragraph style.

Workaround is hitting the "Remove Direct Paragraph Formatting" bin icon after each Get Text operation to restore the paragraph style line spacing.

0013074: After grouping [text|image] boxes one of them is missing lines/refresh

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:54:50 +0000

See attached gif

0018001: [patch] Improve document save-state tracking

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:16:35 +0000

- Currently, Scribus retains the unsaved `*` indicator even after Undo restores the last saved state.
- Here are 2 small patches that make the indicator accurately follow Undo/Redo, including saved-state checkpoints, branching and history limits.
- Includes correctness hardening, title-bar updates and Revert-state synchronisation

## dss1-saved-state-tracking-v1.10.patch

- Introduces per-document saved-state checkpoints in Undo history.
- Handles selective Undo, branching, history truncation and non-undoable changes (e.g. enable/disable snapping options).
- Improves Undo/Redo completion reporting and transaction safety.

## dss2-saved-state-integration-v1.10.patch

- Integrates saved-state tracking with Open, Save, Save As and Revert.
- Synchronises title-bar indicators and Revert availability.
- Hardens multi-document handling, non-undoable change detection and Undo-stack renaming.
- Preserves special editing-mode captions and existing autosave semantics.

0011626: [PATCH] Improve Import management

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:26:45 +0000

This patch come next to image loader.
To be more uniform, all files can be import with a single option instead of : "import image", "import text", "append text", "import vector file", there is just an "Import" option

Through preference, we can select if we want:
For oneclick frame creation: ask for a dimension, insert with doc size, insert with a default dimension

Undo/redo are added too.

This is tested by jluc