Lately, the Scribus developers and contributors have been more productive than usual.
I'd like to start a series of monthly summaries, listing what has changed in the past month.
In the comment, we can already collect the changes of the current month and make it easy to write the monthly reports.
- New Scripter commands:
- getMinWordTracking
- setMinWordTracking
- use floats for `getWordTracking` and `getMinWordTracking`
- getBoundingBox (this and the next three have been committed end of January...)
- getCurrentPageSize
- getVisualBoundingBox
- setCurrentPageSize
- Pasting with formatting from
- MS Word
- LibreOffice
- HTML
- Apple Pages, Notes, ...
- Remove the tabs from the "Align and Distribute" tool and simplify it.
align-and-distribute.png
- Avoid using custom font encoding when embedding TTF fonts in PDFs (Should avoid "hard to debug" errors with some print shops)
p.s.: I'd also like to use this threads to push tickets that users think might be next in the pipeline...
What has already happened in March...
- Vastly improved Node editing
node-editing.png - Better support for CSS in imported SVG files
- The shortcuts for the palettes (F2, F3, ...) bring the "background ones to the foreground, instead of closing them
- Paste plain text from applications where the default is to paste formatted text
- The generation of "nightly" Appimages on Gitlab works again
- Choice of dark or light theme on top of the auto detection
Open tickets with pending patches:
- Export to PDF/X-1a:2003 (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17422)x
- Freehand tool: always smooth the line (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=12438)x
- Picture frame padding (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1096)
- apply style "shortcuts" based on the "action search" tool (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17162)
- Export selection to SVG (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17438)
- Change from Conical gradient to mesh Gradient generate new color names (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17332)
- Limit the width of the tooltips (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17438)
- 'snap to guides' should be enabled by default (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14956)
- scripter: add the itemDialog() api function (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17051)
- Add a few US page sizes (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=17115)
- disabling hyphenation for word by inserting softhyphen before it (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10517)
- it should not be possible to insert multiple soft hyphens one after the other (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=15600)
- Scripter: add "Unlink Text Frames and Cut Text" (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=16784)
- Search & replace all text frames (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=14567)
- scripter: make sure that one can choose the page of the pdf loaded into an image frame (https://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=10970)
p.s.: I have searched for a way to create draft topics, but could not find one...