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0017678ScribusGeneralpublic2025-11-08 00:49
ReporterDavidGDFC Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilitysometimes
Status newResolutionopen 
PlatformWindows 11 
Product Version1.6.4 
Summary0017678: A link to an image is broken if I move my Scribus document to a different folder
DescriptionHi,

The other day I was unable to reproduce this bug, but it's happened to me again just now, so here I am.

In an image frame, I click on 'Get Image' and I add a particular image located in a folder whose parent folder is different from the parent folder of the folder where I keep my Scribus document. In short, both my Scribus document and the image are in completely different folders.

Things work fine so far, but if I move my Scribus document to a different folder (let's say to a subfolder of the folder where it used to be) and then I open it in Scribus, the programme can't find the image, which is in same folder as it's been all the time.

If I double-click on the image frame to see what happened, it shows that Scribus is trying to find the image in the wrong folder. The image is here:

C:\David\multimedia[...]

And yet Scribus is trying to find it:

C:\Users\David\multimedia[...]

Therefore, it's added something to the path.
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JLuc

2025-11-08 00:48

developer   ~0053177

Last edited: 2025-11-08 00:49

This is the way Scribus is meant to be : the user has to manage the links of the main file toward the image. One has to be very carefull to this when one is not used to it yet.

So as to make that behaviour more comfortable, the convention is to store all images inside a single "images" subfolder.

The "Fichiers > Rassembler pour la sortie" main menu command is all it requires so as to copy all used images into that subfolder.

Later, in case you wish to move the .sla main file, ALSO move the images subfolder along with it.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2025-11-07 23:57 DavidGDFC New Issue
2025-11-08 00:48 JLuc Note Added: 0053177
2025-11-08 00:49 JLuc Note Edited: 0053177