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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0017063 | Scribus | User Interface | public | 2023-11-29 16:56 | 2025-12-01 12:11 |
| Reporter | sfhwdt9e | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | EndeavourOS Linux x86_64 | OS | Linux | OS Version | 6.6.2-arch1-1 |
| Product Version | 1.5.8 | ||||
| Summary | 0017063: Display paths to links as relative instead of absolute? | ||||
| Description | All image links in my document broke after I moved it to a subfolder and [this issue](https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14836) mentioned that paths in scribus are in fact relative internally. Would it make sense to make it more explicit in the UI and instead of paths like `/home/user/project/images/image1.png` display them as `./images/image1.png` (assuming that .sla file is in `/home/user/project`? That would affect dialogs like "Manage Images" or "Get Image". | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Right now "Manage Images" dialog shows absolute paths, which made me erroneously think that scribus also uses absolute paths internally. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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| Patch | No | ||||
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In fact internally paths are absolute, it just when saving document they are converted to relative. And when loading again these relative paths are converted back to absolute. |
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Thanks for explaining. I think that it can catch some users off-guard? If a path is shown as absolute you would expect it to behave as an absolute path and if it's relative as relative? |
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I recognize the same problem if you copy (same folder new name) the sla File or move in a different folder the image path will be corrupt with a /mnt/* in the start of the path. I also attach a Screenshot the correct path should be: /home/jan/* but scribus change the path to /mnt/home/jan/* |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2023-11-29 16:56 | sfhwdt9e | New Issue | |
| 2023-11-29 16:56 | sfhwdt9e | File Added: image.png | |
| 2023-12-03 18:00 | jghali | Note Added: 0050568 | |
| 2023-12-05 09:27 | sfhwdt9e | Note Added: 0050571 | |
| 2025-12-01 12:11 | PeterFranz | Note Added: 0053321 | |
| 2025-12-01 12:11 | PeterFranz | File Added: scribus..png |